In this issue: Last chance to register for my charity SwiftUI workshops, the winners of this year’s Swift Community Awards, a new GitHub repository for learners, and more!

Learn SwiftUI, help a great cause

I’m running Advanced SwiftUI workshops on May 4th and May 8th, both with an important purpose: 100% of ticket revenue goes to help two Afghan girls get access to a safe and secure education here in the UK.

We’ll be covering a wide range of topics such as preference keys, Combine integration, performance, the environment, and much more, and of course I’ll be tackling ad hoc questions throughout both days.

There is still time to get a ticket for either day, if you’re quick. To find out more and get yours, click here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/advanced-swiftui

PS: Teams are welcome! If your iOS development team wants to learn some important new skills, this is a great way to spend your training budget effectively, while also helping an amazing cause.

Introducing Simple SwiftUI

As much as I love advanced SwiftUI, I also just launched a new GitHub repository called Simple SwiftUI. The goal here is to produce small, fully-formed SwiftUI projects that give learners some great sample project code to read through and try out – no tutorial they need to follow, no “clever” code that gets in the way of the end result, and no unhelpful licenses that stop you from using the code yourself.

Right now there are just two projects in the repository, both of which were created during yesterday’s Hacking with Swift+ livestream, but I’ll be adding more soon. In the meantime there are lots of opportunities for folks to contribute tests, bug fixes, documentation, and more.

Find out more about the project here: https://github.com/twostraws/simple-swiftui

Thanks to sponsors

This month I was lucky enough to have four companies sponsor the site, and three of them focus on in-app purchases – this is already a huge part of our industry, and still continues to grow quickly!

Glassfy enables you to easily integrate, manage, and grow in-app subscriptions thanks to their open source SDK and complete subscription infrastructure. Find out more here.
RevenueCat lets you make more money on the App Store and spend less time managing in-app purchase infrastructure, all with their powerful SDK. Find out more here.
Emerge can help you optimize your app’s startup time, binary size, and overall performance using their advanced app optimization and monitoring tools. Find out more here.
Qonversion is a low-code cross-platform subscription infrastructure with built-in analytics, retention, and AB testing tools. Find out more here.

If you’re considering adding an in-app purchase to your app, it’s great to have some choice – spend some time investigating each of them and decide for yourself which one works best for your project.

Swift Community Awards – winners!

After over 900 nominations and 5000 votes from across our community, today I announced the winners of the Swift Community Awards:

Best Conference: iOS Conf SG
Best Design Tool: Figma
Best Third-Party Service: Instabug
Best Developer Tool: Bakery
Best Open-source Project: SwiftLint
Most Inspiring Indie App: iOS Dev Jobs
Most Inspiring Presentation: Malin Sundberg: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to SwiftUI
Rising Star: Tunde Adegoroye

News from friends

Tunde Adegoroye has launched a new YouTube series teaching the fundamentals of SwiftUI in small chunks, and has already managed to produce 80(!) videos for it. You can learn about layout, data flow, transitions, animations, and much more.

The series is called SwiftUI Sessions, and you can find the full playlist here.

(PS: Once you’ve watched a few of his videos, I think you’ll see why Tunde was voted Rising Star in the Swift Community Awards!)

Swift jobs

I have a dedicated forum where folks can post job adverts, and I want to pick out a handful here:

SafeBoda are hiring a remote iOS developer to help build apps for the East African market.
Clay are looking for another engineer to help build their SwiftUI app.
Anima Virtuality are hiring for a fully remote role with experience in ARKit, SceneKit, and RealityKit.

Discounts on books

Here's a reminder of the supporter's discount codes you can use to save money on all my books:

Recently updated for SwiftUI! Hacking with macOS: https://gum.co/hwmacos/hws-thankyou
SwiftUI By Example: https://gum.co/swiftui/hws-thankyou
Hacking with iOS: https://gum.co/hws-book-pack/hws-thankyou
Pro Swift: https://gum.co/proswift/hws-thankyou
Swift Design Patterns: https://gum.co/swift-design-patterns/hws-thankyou
Testing Swift: https://gum.co/testing-swift/hws-thankyou
Swift on Sundays Volume One: https://gum.co/swift-on-sundays-1/hws-thankyou
Advanced iOS Volume One: https://gum.co/advanced-ios-1/hws-thankyou
Advanced iOS Volume Two: https://gum.co/advanced-ios-2/hws-thankyou
Advanced iOS Volume Three: https://gum.co/advanced-ios-3/hws-thankyou
Swift Coding Challenges: https://gum.co/swiftcc/hws-thankyou
Dive Into SpriteKit: https://gum.co/dive-into-spritekit/hws-thankyou
Hacking with watchOS: https://gum.co/hwwatchos/hws-thankyou
Hacking with tvOS: https://gum.co/hwtvos/hws-thankyou
Server-Side Swift Vapor Edition: https://gum.co/server-side-swift-vapor/hws-thankyou
Hacking with Swift Live Series 1: https://gum.co/hws-live-1/hws-thankyou
Objective-C for Swift Developers: https://gum.co/objcswift/hws-thankyou
Beyond Code: https://gum.co/beyondcode/hws-thankyou

Remember, if you already bought books from either the Swift Power Pack, the Swift Platform Pack, or the Swift Plus Pack and want to upgrade to the full bundle, I can create a custom discount code for you that takes off whatever you already paid – just email me.

One more thing…

Last month was a difficult one for my family, but we made it through and I hope things will start to get better. In fact, just yesterday I heard the news that we have finally been approved to host a Ukrainian refugee family in our house, and I’m looking forward to doing everything I can to help them settle in to life here in the UK.

You might wonder what all this has to do with Swift, and the answer is nothing at all – I just want to use this opportunity to remind you to help as many people as you can, as much as you can, for as long as you can. Yes, I enjoy building apps and helping others do that too, but I never want to forget how privileged I am to be doing such fun and creative work.

With WWDC only about a month away, this is a great time to find someone more junior to you in our community and helping them on their journey – maybe answering some of their questions, or even just sending them some encouraging words to help lift them, and it only takes a few minutes.

If you’re not sure where to start, click here to see folks who have tweeted about their progress on the 100 Days of SwiftUI – even a short “good job!” tweet shows them that other folks are taking an interest in their progress, and will help keep them going.

Paul

@twostraws

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