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What defines an indie developer?
I am interested to hear your thoughts on this, it's a question to my mind at the moment because I am building my own iOS application and it's almost ready to be shipped but we had some fun on Twitter around this topic, does this now make me an indie developer?
I suppose it kind of does, I have built something independently, right?
I am excited to launch this because actually, it's probably the first iOS application that I think could be actually useful to others, I have a bit more polish and then I am going to prepare a TestFlight version for some people to help test it.
In other news, this is issue number 30 and I can't believe I have delivered 30 issues of my newsletter which is almost 8 months 🤯
🥳 What's New
Request an iOS Review in SwiftUI
SwiftUI 4.0 had many goodies for us this year, and this is one that snuck through the radar without much knowledge, asking your users for a review is definitely important and it's now easier than ever to do this in SwiftUI.
🔥 Community News
Getting UIKit's UICalendarView from iOS 16 fully functioning in a SwiftUI app by Chris Wu
The new UICalendarView added to UIKit in iOS 16 looks great but there’s not a SwiftUI equivalent. Here’s how I got a SwiftUI app to show the calendar based on custom dates and update the calendar when dates change.
The power of task view modifier in SwiftUI by Majid
These kinds of topics are something you should 100% get familiar with, why? Because it's something we all need to do, make a network call and render some data. Explore this great article by Majid on using the Task Modifier.
Beginner's guide to modern generic programming in Swift - The.Swift.Dev.
Learn the very basics about protocols, existential, opaque types and how they are related to generic programming in Swift.
My Template to Research, Design and Ship iOS Apps by Jordan Morgan
I spotted this released by Jordan, and it couldn't have come at a better time for me. I am definitely going to refer to this document as I prepare for the final stages of my app deployment.
👩🏽💻 Jobs
Senior iOS Engineer – xDesign
xDesign is an award-winning digital transformation and software partner based in the centres of Leeds and Edinburgh. We pride ourselves on working closely and collaboratively with our clients to craft intuitive user experiences and valuable products across a wide range of industries, technologies, and clients. Our reputation as a partner determined to deliver high-quality, robust and thoughtful end-products has enabled us to scale to over 200 people in the last couple of years, and we are preparing for further growth.
💡 And Finally...
You know what I am talking about, right?