Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2024/39

With some attention to server-side Swift development

Another pack of interesting reads for upcoming weekend.

• Michael Tsai gets together updates on object identification in Core Data and SwiftData – NSManagedObjectID and PersistentIdentifier;

• Chris Eidhof investigates animation API in SwiftUI – Phase Animator Behavior;

• How to keep Date’s microseconds precision in Swift by Toomas Vahter goes through high precision date serialization;

• Jacob Bartlett talks the specifics on structured concurrency model in Swift – Why is my Task running on the main thread?;

• Wade Tregaskis works on window modifiers in SwiftUI – presentedWindowStyle is not windowStyle;

• Mastering container views in SwiftUI. Basics. by Majid Jabrayilov explains how container views work in SwiftUI;

• Joannis Orlandos goes through server-side development with Swift – Getting Started with Hummingbird;

• Speaking of Hummingbird – there are some updates from Hummingbird itself – Hummingbird 2;

• And also some updates from Vapor – The Future of Vapor;

• Giovanni Monaco shares two articles – Mastering blend modes in SwiftUI and Creating a mesh gradient in SwiftUI on how to work with colors in SwiftUI;

• Donny Wals also has adds his thoughts on mesh gradients – Getting started with Mesh Gradients on iOS 18;

• Using the zoom navigation transition in SwiftUI by Matteo Altobello is about new transition between views in SwiftUI.

Come back next week – we’ll have more great articles to read.