After a long summer break, I’m back and have just released a new book dedicated to teaching advanced SwiftUI skills! Plus there’s another big Hacking with Swift+ upgrade on the way, I’m finally moving away from GitHub authentication on the site, and more.

NEW: Pro SwiftUI

I just released a new book that has been three years in the making: Pro SwiftUI covers a huge range of advanced SwiftUI techniques helping you build faster, smarter apps, including:

Creating advanced animations – even for things that don't seem animatable
Building complex view transitions that go way beyond Apple's built-in options
Creating custom view layouts, including radial layouts and masonry
Designing gorgeous visual effects such as particle systems, metaballs, lava effects, and even fragment shaders
Maximising your app's performance by identifying and resolving hot spots
And more!

Best of all, I’m working on videos for every chapter, so you’ll be able to read or watch depending on how you learn best.

The first edition of the book is available now, with the first videos arriving September 10th. However, before you rush out and buy a copy there are three important things to know:

If you already bought the Swift Platform Pack, you get Pro SwiftUI for free! It’s right there in your Gumroad downloads, along with the other books in the bundle.
If you’re a Hacking with Swift+ subscriber you get 20% off all my books and bundles year round, including this one. Visit https://www.hackingwithswift.com/plus to activate your discount.
If you haven’t bought the Swift Platform Pack and aren’t a Hacking with Swift+ subscriber, I still want to give you a $5 discount as a thank you for reading this newsletter. Click here to activate that discount.

Important: At the end of November I normally run a Black Friday sale. I’m afraid Pro SwiftUI will not be part of that sale this year – I poured so much work into this new book, and I can’t afford to make such a big discount so soon after its release.

This book covers a huge range of topics and I can’t wait to hear what you think!

Buy Pro SwiftUI

Hacking with Swift+ Next Steps

I’m continuing to look for ways to improve Hacking with Swift+, and starting later this month I’ll be launching an all-new section there that fills one of the most popular requests I’ve had: in-depth answers to the most common questions asked at iOS job interviews.

For some time now I’ve maintained a popular list of interview questions for Swift developers but although I provided suggested approaches there I never actually provided comprehensive answers.

Well, I’m busy putting the finishing touches to a new Hacking with Swift+ section that goes through over 30 of the most common questions in detail, showing you exactly how I would tackle them – specific techniques I would mention, sample code I would talk about, people and resources I would mention, and where applicable also walkthroughs of code so you can see exactly how things fit together.

This new part of the site is exclusive to Hacking with Swift+ subscribers, and is designed specifically to help build your career – whether you’re just looking for your first job, or are looking to move up to a senior role, you’ll find answers here that help, both as text and video. And more will come in the months ahead!

Of course, this is in addition to the other Hacking with Swift+ benefits, including all the exclusive tutorials, the Ultimate Portfolio App series, an ad-free experience on the site, video solutions for the 100 Days of SwiftUI, monthly live streams, exclusive forum access, a 20% discount on all my books and bundles, and more.

Find out more about Hacking with Swift+

Thanks to sponsors!

I’ve been lucky enough to have several sponsors on the site since I last sent out a newsletter:

RevenueCat makes in-app purchases straightforward and reliable so you can skip the pain of StoreKit and get back to building your app. 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.
Fernando Olivares has a book that guides you in fixing bugs in three real, open-source, downloadable apps from the App Store. Find out more here.
Runway helps you spend less time bouncing between App Store Connect, CI, version control and all your other tools, with a single place to simplify and speed up releases. Find out more here.

Important: GitHub authentication is going away

Previously I mentioned that I was planning to remove GitHub authentication on the site, and that process has now begun: the next time you log in you’ll see you can now use a username and password in place of GitHub.

At some point in the future GitHub authentication will go away. Please visit hackingwithswift.com/account and add a password to your account.

News from friends

Craig Clayton has started publishing a new series of videos that teach the fundamentals of SwiftUI in just 100 seconds each. As I write this he already has four videos out there, covering Text, Image, Label, and Button, but more are coming soon and I look forward to seeing where the series goes!

Find Craig's playlist here.

Discounts on books

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

NEW: Pro SwiftUI: https://gum.co/pro-swiftui/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 macOS: https://gum.co/hwmacos/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…

My kids go back to school soon after a long summer break, and although I was writing many evenings I also managed to have a lot of time off myself. It felt really good having such a long break from my desk, and it won’t surprise you to learn that it has left me re-energized and raring to go with new ideas and plans.

You’ve seen Pro SwiftUI has arrived, I already mentioned the new Hacking with Swift+ interview answers are almost ready, and I finally started the process of deprecating GitHub login on the site.

But there’s something else I’ve been working on.

Something big.

In fact, it’s the single biggest request I’ve had across all my work in the last two years, and I’m almost ready to announce it.

So watch this space, because it’s going to be good 🔥

Paul

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