Swift Weekly - Issue #181

The Swift Standard Library preview package provides access to functionality that has been accepted into the Swift standard library through the Swift Evolution process, but has not yet shipped as part of an official Swift release.

If like most of us, you aren’t tuned into the comings-and-goings of Swift Evolution, Xcode 11.4 is your first exposure to two new additions to the language: key path expressions as functions and callable values of user-defined nominal types.

The phrase “Swifty code” is often used to describe code that follows the conventions that are currently the most popular within the Swift community. But what exactly does that entail? Let’s take a look.

Xcode 11.4 has some interesting XCTest improvements that make it a little easier to write tests that handle throwing errors.

Testing push notifications on the iOS simulator can be done in three different ways. Iterate fast and trigger remote notifications on the simulator.

In this article, Peter Ringset looks at how we can use a state machine to drive UI changes and respond to events.

Max Howell explains why and describes how you can maintain a Homebrew Tap for Swift Projects.

All the talks from dotSwift 2020 which took place in Paris, France in early February.

SwiftConf 2019 took place in Cologne, Germany in August last year. You can now watch the talks here.

A macOS app to control the Xcode Simulator.

Easily generate Swift Playgrounds from your command line 👨‍💻 - SvenTiigi/SwiftPlaygroundsCLI

A Swift Redux Library utilizing Apple’s Combine Framework.

Version 5.0 of Alamofire has been released and it contains a couple of improvements.

A convenient way to handle default values with Swift Codable types - gonzalezreal/DefaultCodable