Media & Entertainment

A Guide to Handling Focus in Apple TV Apps with SwiftUI

Introduction In Apple TV, the centre of user interaction is the focus engine. Apple TV does not use the touchscreen like iPhones and iPads, where one taps everything directly on the screen, but uses the remote control to navigate among the elements. This is to say that the usability of your app largely relies on the ease and...

by Mukul Sharma
Tag: swift
01-Sep-2025

iOS

Privacy Manifest (Third-Party SDKs requirements)

Introduction Ensuring user privacy remains Apple's paramount concern, and it must not be compromised under any circumstances. To reinforce this commitment, Apple has introduced stringent requirements for third-party SDKs. While these SDKs offer valuable functionality for apps, they also have the potential to impinge upon user privacy...

by Vikas Patidar
Tag: swift
10-Apr-2024

iOS

Modularise your app with Swift Package Manager (SPM)

Introduction SPM - Swift Package Manager is a tool for managing the distribution of Reusable Swift code. With the term ‘Distribution’ there comes a question of how to distribute. The answer is Package. It’s nothing new as we are already using some third-party, open-source code or writing our reusable, distributable code with...

by Ankit Nigam
Tag: swift
26-Jul-2023

iOS

Concurrency with swift: Structured concurrency

This is part 2 of the article series on Concurrency with Swift. The article’s content assumes that the reader understands the Async/Await concept. If you are unfamiliar with the Async/Await concept, please read the first part: Concurrency with Swift: Async/Await. Before we learn Structured Concurrency, it is essential to understand...

by Ankit Nigam
Tag: swift
13-Feb-2023

iOS, Mobility

Swift For-Loops

In Swift 3.0 C-style for-loops will be removed. This will force developers to use a swift syntax for for-loops. So lets begin with swift for loops : Looping n times [code language="objc"] // output is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 for i in 0..<10 { print(i) } // or for i in 0...9 { print(i) } [/code] Looping n...

by Ashu Baweja
Tag: swift
10-Jul-2016

iOS, Technology

12 Key Differences between Objective C and Swift

Apple recently unveiled a new programming language Swift, to replace Objective-C for OS X and iOS application development. The advent of Swift marks the transformation from a decade old language to a naive yet effective programming language - Swift. The main purpose of introducing Swift is to provide a new easier, simpler, more flexible...

by Swati Khatri
Tag: swift
21-Jun-2016

iOS, Mobility

What’s New in Swift 2.0

One year ago, Apple released Swift, a brand new programming language for both iOS and OS X development and now they introduced Swift 2 with Xcode 7 this year. Swift 2 includes some new features such as improved error handling, availability check and , protocol extensions etc. Lets take the overview of new features. Error handling : ...

by Ashu Baweja
Tag: swift
04-Nov-2015