Start Designing for Dynamic Island, Displaying Live Activities, Adding Support for Apple Watch Ultra Action Button, Deadlocks in Swift, App Store Price Changes, Mobile Application Attacks, DocC Tutorial

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Start Designing for Dynamic Island and Live Activities

Whatever your opinion about Apple's Dynamic Island may be, it is a UX renaissance in the making and designers need to take it into account.

Code

Displaying live activities in iOS 16

One of the most prominent features of iOS 16 is live activity widgets. iOS 16 allows us to display the live state of ongoing activities from our apps on the lock screen or in the Dynamic Island of the new iPhone 14 Pro.

Example of High Cohesion and Low Coupling with Presenter, View, and View Model

Cohesion is about how well elements within a module belong together and serve a common purpose. Coupling is about how much one module depends or interacts with other modules.

Deadlocks in Swift explained: detecting and solving

Deadlocks in Swift can cause your app to hang and become unresponsive. Learn how to detect and solve hangs in Xcode.

Aspect Fit Layout Guide

The safe area aspect fit layout guide is new in iOS 16.

Adding Support for Apple Watch Ultra Action Button

Apple recently announced the Apple Watch Ultra, which adds an additional button to the Apple Watch. One of the primary uses for this button is to control (start / pause / resume) workouts.

News & Updates

Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases

As early as October 5, 2022, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories that use the euro currency.

Misc

The 4 Phases of a Mobile Application Attack

With mobile application security, it’s important to be proactive. Learn about the 4 phases of a mobile application attack and how to protect against them.