When I started developing Mac apps eons ago, I only had a crappy Intel Mac Mini that took forever to compile my apps. To make this manageable, I adopted library-based development and prepared UI components as dependencies I could compile once, then link as .frameworks into the app. Carthage was a big help there, automating the process.
So I am working on auto-completion in NSTextView in a package called TextKitAutoCompletion. This is the first new Swift Package project I started with Xcode 16, I believe; the previous one was still Xcode 15. And with 16, they changed how you can reference local packages from example apps in subfolders.
I avoided hamburger menus for the better part of the past decade. This time, I had no better idea. The result is the new mobile navigaton for zettelkasten.de. Also, it seems like the UI component sticks with people, and is not just a weird fad anymore. It’s too old for being trendy.
Professor John Gallaugher of Boston College has a free course on making apps with SwiftUI, to be updated in 2025: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VJ9OpT-IPSM6dFSwQCIl409gNBsqKTe On his website, there’s a previous iteration of the course using UIKit (which I believe is still a very valuable framework to learn in 2025, given how often you need to implement or fix things in SwiftUI!)
Starting Tuesday, 2025-01-14, 17:30 CET (in your timezone), I’ll be hosting an AMA Open Office Hour here.
It’s free.
Join on Jitsi on Tuesday.
New to programming or app dev? You’re very welcome to ask all kinds of questions if you need orientation, be it about Swift, app or web development, programming in general, career, having a baby daughter – you name it!
I split off the Reactive Extensions (Rx) of my own Omnibar package so that you (and I!) can use it without having to download and build RxSwift. Omnibar: https://github.com/CleanCocoa/Omnibar
RxOmnibar: https://github.com/CleanCocoa/RxOmnibar