Mastodawn

Marius Kažemėkaitis Jun 14, 2025

Axel Le Pennec Jun 14, 2025

The new BGContinueProcessingTask allows a work to continue even after the app is backgrounded, with a system providing UI to communicate progress!

No more LiveActivities to provide feedback on tasks being performed by the app 🤩

Documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/backgroundtasks/performing-long-running-tasks-on-ios-and-ipados

#WWDC25

Marius Kažemėkaitis May 29, 2025

Rafa May 27, 2025

In Sketch, Artboards are no more! We are replacing them with two new container types: Frames, and Graphics.

I recorded a quick walkthrough to get you up to speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBw61Ha9qI

Marius Kažemėkaitis Apr 20, 2025

Natalia Panferova Apr 18, 2025

Starting with iOS 17, foregroundStyle(_:) in #SwiftUI can be used to style fragments of text inside a string. When applied directly to a Text instance, the modifier returns a Text instead of some View, which allows us to use it inside text interpolation: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/ForegroundStyleInsideTextInSwiftUI

Interpolate text with custom foreground style in SwiftUI

Add custom foreground styles, such as gradients, to words inside Text views in SwiftUI.

Nil Coalescing

Marius Kažemėkaitis Apr 14, 2025

Mario Guzmán Apr 13, 2025

Apple's #HIG would tell you (or used to at least) to not use bottom bars in your Mac apps... but apps suffer from usability if Bottom Bars are a good fit for them yet omitted…

I really don't like how bottom bars, title bars, and accessory were basically all merged into the toolbar -- especially when full height sidebars and inspector sidebars now eat so much into their horizontal space too. Everything fighting for room.

Here's more info on them...
https://marioaguzman.github.io/design/toolbarguidelines/#BottomBars

Toolbar Guidelines

The following sections are general guidelines that describe fundamental Toolbar layout and design principles on the Mac. Following these guidelines will help you create functional and aesthetically pleasing toolbars that are easy for Mac users to understand and use.

Mario Guzman

Marius Kažemėkaitis Mar 31, 2025

Steve Troughton-Smith Mar 29, 2025

I know Apple Intelligence has got all the attention lately, but next-generation CarPlay probably should rank higher on Apple's list of disasters that they can't seem to ship. It seems to fall in the middle between the hostile third-party partner relationship problems of the Vision Pro and the unsolvable technology problems of Apple Intelligence, suffering from more than a bit of both