Weekly Newsletter Issue 125

Weekly Newsletter Issue 125

Weekly newsletter summing up our publications and showcasing app developers and their amazing creations.

Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

First things first, a quick apology for missing last week’s newsletter!
A busy schedule got the better of us, but we’re back with plenty to share. This week is packed with exciting news, updates, and articles from the community, so let’s dive right in!

The month is almost over, and we have to be honest: it has been techtober in every sense. Over a series of announcements, Apple refreshed the iPad mini lineup with new OLED displays, brought new processors to the MacBook Pro and iMac, and introduced a new MacBook Pro series with a redesigned look and an OLED display, sorry, PROLED, and most notably a touch screen!

Steve Jobs once said that “touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical.” And he had a point. But technology evolves, habits change, and what once seemed unnecessary might find its place today.
We’re definitely curious to see what creators and developers will do with it.

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The Community

Dynamic Type for Custom Fonts in SwiftUI - A 4-Line Fix

Sagar walks through making custom fonts support Dynamic Type in SwiftUI using @ScaledMetric, building a reusable modifier that scales text appropriately while preserving consistent styling and accessibility across different text sizes.

Dynamic Type for Custom Fonts in SwiftUI - A 4-Line Fix

Make custom fonts respect Dynamic Type in SwiftUI with a tiny view modifier built on @ScaledMetric. Avoid double scalin…

Sagar Unagar •Sagar Unagar

Apple App Attest in iOS Development

Artem explores how Apple’s App Attest helps protect iOS apps by allowing servers to verify legitimate app instances through cryptographic attestation and assertions, covering practical implementation considerations and new capabilities introduced in iOS 27.

Apple App Attest in iOS Development → Livsy Code

Greetings, traveler! Apple App Attest lets your server verify that a request comes from a legitimate instance of your a…

Livsy Code → Learn Swift the smart way •Livsy

Interesting ways of using Swift optionals

John highlights les known features of Swift optionals, showing how pattern matching, functional chaining, and custom extensions can simplify common coding patterns and make Swift code more expressive and readable.

Interesting ways of using Swift optionals | Swift by Sundell

A showcase of different interesting ways of using optionals that go beyond simple unwrapping of values.

Swift by Sundell

Driving SwiftUI animations with the hinge angle on iPhone Duo

Natalia shows how to create SwiftUI animations that respond to iPhone Duo’s folding motion using onHingeChange(), highlighting when to use this API instead of layout-specific alternatives.

Driving SwiftUI animations with the hinge angle on iPhone Duo

Respond to hinge changes on iPhone Duo with SwiftUI's onHingeChange() modifier, and drive animations and visual effects…

Nil Coalescing •Natalia Panferova

Toastie

Honestly, the developer community hasn't felt this much excitement in a long time, with this forceful return to skeuomorphism and to recreating real-life objects as fun, original digital experiences. It's a return so enjoyable that we now catch ourselves looking at everyday objects and wondering whether they could be an app for iPhone Duo.

Toastie, developed by Tom, is an example of that, taking the toaster and recreating it with real care. You butter the bread with your finger, drag on cheese and fillings following one of ten recipes, then press GRILL and shut the lid. There is no timer, only the sizzle, so you open it when you think the cheese has melted and before it burns. On iPhone Duo the phone itself becomes the toaster, folding shut to close the lid, and it plays on any iPhone and iPad too. Four stars unlock the next recipe, five turn the score card gold, and the developer's own description sums it up best: "the world's most expensive toaster", but an incredibly fun and well-executed one.

Toastie: grilled cheese game App - App Store

Download Toastie: grilled cheese game by Tomasz Szykulski on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user …

App Store •Tomasz Szykulski

If you missed Apple’s Group Labs on the iPhone Duo, the recordings are now available! They’re packed with valuable insights and practical tips straight from Apple’s engineers and designers.

#iphoneduo #meetwithapple #appledeveloper | Apple Developer

Want the latest iPhone Duo insights? Check out full replays of our recent iPhone Duo Group Labs. Watch now: https://lnk…

LinkedIn •Apple Developer

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Apple Developer

We can’t wait to see what you will Create with Swift.

See you next week!

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