Implementing new features in StoreKit — Before you read this story, note an updated version [as in code] can be found here. Subscriptions, Receipts, and StoreKit in iOS 14 The gold standard of in-app purchases and subscriptionsmedium.com Much of the buzz at WWDC2020 was given over to SwiftUI 2.0 …

A look at some different ways to link a class with a SwiftUI interface — I was playing around with SpriteKit, and it occurred to me that it might be a good exercise to remind myself of how many different ways I could link my SwiftUI code with my SpriteKit scene/class. …

Frameworks updated in WWDC2023 — The changes/updates announced at the WWDC2023 in SwitfUI have been among the most extensive since its launch in 2019, principally updates in the animation domain. …

Some arguments to throw in there in your next interview as a senior developer — The world of work is rife with ageism, and the IT industry is undoubtedly one of the worse offenders, but is it justified? Join me for some honest thoughts on the subject. …

Continuation of a paper about Emitter Nodes — The other week I published an article on emitter nodes, which would run under SceneKit or SpriteKit; both frameworks haven’t seen that much love in recent years; I finished up said article by developing a rudimentary SwiftUI version. …

Few companies can claim to have invented a verb or at least repurposed one. Verbs that were are the same across every language worldwide. The most famous is perhaps “Google.” You google something, meaning you look it up. Although there is an even earlier one more insidious than that, so…

Building emitter nodes — The most downloaded apps are games, most of which have an element that could be described as an explosion; an animation to denote success, failure or even perhaps celebration. Explosions are crafted mainly using EmitterNodes, available in SpriteKit, SceneKit and the CAAnimation framework. Nodes that the Apple documentation tells us…

Using SKSpriteKit with SwiftUI — I’m a fan of SwiftUI. I have been using it since its launch in 2019. In those five years, it has come a long way and had many updates, although some argue it isn’t ready for prime-time. One of those prime-time features not available within SwiftUI is the iOS physics…

How to integrate these frameworks — I published an article about future libraries coming to Swift in this paper. …