👋🏼 Welcome to SwiftlyRush
This year is my 1st-decade building iOS applications, and throughout this period in my life, I have always been in awe of the community behind it. It's always been super welcoming in many ways and this is why I am so passionate about supporting you.
I want to thank you for subscribing to my weekly newsletter as I start building out SwiftlyRush. In this weekly newsletter, I will also be covering some hot topics from everyone else in the iOS community 🔥
I am planning on launching a brand new tutorial each week, along with smaller articles covering tips & tricks for you to use in your day to day iOS development.
🥳 What's New
What's Coming in Swift 5.6
Swift 5.6 will be soon with us, read this article on the latest changes already merged ready for release.
SwiftUI ProgressView
Thinking about adopting SwiftUI, but perhaps you have a big UIKit codebase? Then how about making small steps and adopting the ProgressView.
Build & Run or Run Without Building
What's your favourite Xcode keyboard shortcut? Have you ever discovered this one?
🔥 Community News
Non-fatal errors vs fatal crashes: The differences explained
Check out this great article by Antoine Van Der Lee on non-fatal errors and crashes that have a close relationship, but have different results for your user. You should take them both seriously.
iOS Architecture at Lyft - Scott Berrevoets
When building an iOS app, scalability has become an increasingly hot topic in the iOS community. Our codebases are growing and so are the teams working on them. Discover how they're doing this at Lyft with 1.5M lines of code.
Going open-source | Daniel Saidi
Going open-source seems like an easy thing to do, but the reality can be very different. I stumbled across this article from Daniel that I found very insightful.
💡 And Finally...
I am running an active poll on SwiftlyRush, and I plan on doing this each week to give you, the reader, an insight into our iOS community.
This week the question was around how long you have been an iOS developer. The results are quite a broad range:
- 0-1 Year (21%)
- 2-3 Years (16%)
- 3-4 Years (8%)
- 5+ Years (54%)
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