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SwiftUI Tip 💡
Want two related SF Symbols to morph into each other?
Use .contentTransition(.symbolEffect(.replace.offUp)).
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Things that quietly disappeared from iOS development:
- 1x, 2x, 3x asset folders
- print("here")
- pod install
- bitcode
- TAMIC
- iPhone 4s support
- Game Center as growth
- iAd
- APNs .p12
- revoke all certificates and start over
- GoogleService-Info.plist in every repo
- SnapKit, SwiftyJSON, Alamofire, Kingfisher
- bridging header
- retain / release / autorelease
- NSLog(@"%@", self)
- .nib .xib
- App Transport Security
- masksToBounds vs clipsToBounds
- [[[[[]]]]]
- “just use a UICollectionView”
- arguing about RxSwift vs Combine
- programmatic UI vs storyboards
- Carthage vs CocoaPods
- a 4,000-line ViewController named HomeVC
- Xcode indexing
- Xamarin debates
- “SwiftUI is not production ready”
what else?
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iOS, not IOS
SwiftUI, not Swift UI
UIKit, not UIKIT
macOS, not MacOS
Xcode, not XCode
iPhone, not Iphone
MacBook, not Macbook
Apple Watch, not iWatch
iPad, not Ipad
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SwiftUI Tip 💡
Easily animate SF Symbols that support Variable Color.
No spinner needed. The icon is the loading state.
.symbolEffect(.variableColor.reversing, isActive:)
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Enid retweeted
This drawOn symbol effect is easy to take for granted, but it was actually a lot of work to get right.
1. SF symbols are not strokes. If you look closely at the signature, not all portions of the path are the same width.
2. Moving along the path and naively filling it would look awful! Consider filling along curves where one side of the path is shorter than the other. You want the animation to fill gracefully, but there's nothing that connects the two sides of the path.
The solution was to annotate each symbol with these "railroad track" guides
SwiftUI Tip 💡
Want an SF Symbol that draws itself on?
In iOS 26+, use .symbolEffect(.drawOn, isActive:).
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iOS devs, have you noticed
we stopped talking
about provisioning profiles and certificates
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SwiftUI Tip 💡
In iOS 18+, easily animate a MeshGradient with TimelineView(.animation).
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SwiftUI Tip 💡
Want to reveal content with a blur + scale?
In iOS 17+, use .transition(.blurReplace).
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i don’t fear AI taking my job
i fear AI shipping 47 identical habit trackers
the same week as me
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SwiftUI Tip 💡
Want an SF Symbol that draws itself on?
In iOS 26+, use .symbolEffect(.drawOn, isActive:).
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Xcode 27.1 beta has a hidden iPhone Duo action bar.
It lets you fold the device in Device Hub through real poses.
Command in the reply.
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defaults write com[.]apple.dt.Devices com[.]apple.dt.coredevicepop.useInternalV68ActionBar -bool true
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