CamBridge: giving the iOS Simulator a real, moving camera image
The problem Neither the iOS Simulator nor the Android Emulator has real camera hardware. If you're building anything that touches AVCaptureSession — a…
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Пять неправильных токенов и 245 картинок: как Krea 2 заработала на Swift и MLX
На обложке — команда, которой не было. В реальности Twisterminigen создавался за одним столом: я, Mac mini M4 с 32 ГБ объединённой памяти и Code…
The Crash That Only Happened Sometimes — A SwiftUI Bug
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . I spent three hours debugging a SwiftUI crash that felt completely …
I built SwiftNotch: a productivity dashboard for the MacBook notch
The notch on a MacBook is strange real estate. It is always there. It sits at the top of the screen, close to the menu bar, close to system controls, …
Part 4 — Tags, ratings, and richer rows
Part 4 — Tags, ratings, and richer rows Level: Intermediate · Time: ~20 minutes · Builds on: Part 3 — Custom themes, multi-window, and polish · Series…
What I Learned Switching Between Swift and AI Studio in the Same Week
As a solo developer building small, useful tools like Tab Reminder, my Chrome extension for scheduling tabs to reopen later, I often find myself switc…
I Got Tired of Hand-Translating Xcode Plists, So I Built a Tiny Free Tool to Do It On-Device
If you've ever localized an iOS or macOS app, you know the drill: you've got a .plist file full of UI strings sitting in Base.lproj , and now you need…
Part 2 — Search, palette, and settings
Part 2 — Search, palette, and settings Level: Intermediate · Time: ~35 minutes · Builds on: Part 1 — Contacts app Part 1 got you shipping. This one ge…
What I learned rebuilding a macOS gaming diagnostics app in Swift
A previous version of this article described CloudBoost as open source. That is no longer accurate. The public GitHub repository now contains releases…
How I export 1.2-gigapixel images on an iPhone without running out of memory
Rendering a big image on iOS is one of those things that looks trivial until your app gets killed by the OS mid-export. CGContext , draw, makeImage() …
How screenshot detection works on iOS
Detecting a screenshot on iOS starts with a single UIKit notification. That is the last easy part. UIApplication.userDidTakeScreenshotNotification tel…
Stop Rebuilding the Same SwiftUI Components: A Guide to DesignFoundation
"I'll just write a quick button style... and a text field with validation... and a card component..." Two weeks later you have a bespoke design system…
Stop Rebuilding Auth, Onboarding, and Dashboards: DesignFoundationPro
Part 2 of 2. This tutorial builds on Part 1 — DesignFoundation core . If you haven't added the base package and theme yet, start there. The core packa…
Taking apart the write path into another app's iCloud folder
I am going to take apart, layer by layer, roughly 90 lines of Swift that let my app write a single line into a file owned by a different app, inside t…
Building on-device Video Notes in a macOS app
Building on-device Video Notes: SpeechAnalyzer, Foundation Models, and libmpv in a shipping macOS app My macOS video player, Reel , has a feature call…
Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before Starting iOS Development
When I started learning iOS development, I thought the hardest part would be writing Swift code. I was wrong. The real challenges had very little to d…
WWDC - 2026 - Build Intelligent Siri Experiences with App Schemas
In the iOS 27 release, Siri takes a real step forward. It can now reach into the actual content inside your app, take actions on your behalf, and unde…
XCUI, Tests & Robots. Разбираем нативную автоматизацию iOS на винтики. Часть 1
Привет, Хабр! На связи снова Максим из ATI.SU . В прошлых статьях мы разобрались, как искать логи и креш‑отчёты на iOS‑у…
Building AR Hide and Seek — Shipping a Solo Indie LiDAR Game to the App Store
The idea came from an extremely serious game of hide and seek with my cousins. We were adults, which made it ridiculous, but also strangely perfect. S…
Adding Live Activities to a Pomodoro timer: what the docs don't tell you
A countdown timer is the perfect use case for Live Activities — and also a great way to discover everything the ActivityKit docs gloss over. When I ad…
How I auto-generate 800+ App Store screenshots across 39 languages and 3 devices
App Store screenshots are the highest-leverage marketing asset an app has — and the most painful to maintain. Now multiply that pain by 39 languages a…
I shipped a Pomodoro app in 39 languages as a solo dev — here's how i18n actually went
Most indie apps ship in English, maybe add a handful of "big" languages later, and call it done. I went the other way: Cadento , my SwiftUI Pomodoro/f…
AI Features Need Product Edges, Not Just Better Prompts
Most AI features don't fail because the model is bad. They fail because everything around the model is treated like a demo. This week I was tightening…
What I Learned Switching Between Swift and AI Studio in the Same Week
This past week I did two very different kinds of "building." On one side: continuing my Swift series, writing functions, testing them in the playgroun…
How to Fetch Apple Calendar Events and Reminders in Flutter (macOS)
Building a macOS app with Flutter and need access to Apple Calendar events and Reminders? Flutter cannot directly access EventKit (Apple's framework f…
WWDC 2026 - WidgetKit Foundations: A Practical Guide for Developers
What makes a widget worth building Apple frames good widgets around three qualities, and they're worth keeping in your head as design constraints, not…
What's New in Apple's Foundation Models Framework at WWDC 2026
From a single on-device model to a hybrid, multimodal, agentic AI platform — and it's going open source When Apple shipped the Foundation Models frame…
Пишем кодинг‑агента на Swift с нуля: неочевидные сложности очевидной идеи
Я долго пользовался разными кодинг‑агентами, и на их фоне Claude Code для меня заметно выделялся: качеством решений, удобством работы и вним…
Room-Inspired Local Persistence in Swift: A Production GRDB Architecture
Introduction If you've built Android apps with Room, you already think in a layered persistence model: entities define your schema, DAOs handle querie…
I shipped my first iOS app, got rejected twice, and built a tool so it never happens again
The code was never the hard part. The App Store review was. I shipped my first iOS app — a small baby tracker — and got rejected twice. Not for bugs. …