Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2025/12

Great articles for a sunny weekend

Weather improves in Bay Area. More sun means more time outside, so here is a content-packed list of topics that might be useful.

• Alexander Weiß explains how editMode environment is propagated in SwiftUI – SwiftUI's editMode environment;

• Understanding existentials and primary associated types in Swift by Natascha Fadeeva is very important to understand how protocols work in Swift;

• Antonella Giugliano details use of App Intents for Siri integration – Performing your app actions with Siri through App Shortcuts Provider and writes about useful component that can help adjusting content to available space – Dynamically adapting to available space with ViewThatFits;

• Chris Eidhof shares two articles on SwiftUI elements: how Group actually behaves in previews and Simulator – Why I Avoid Group and issues with code-based Binding’s – Bindings;

• Leaking Passwords (and more!) on macOS by Noah Gregory goes deep into macOS kernel and covers some vulnerabilities allowing attackers to extract data from Keychain;

• Natan explains Vapor app deployment process – Deploying a Swift Server App to Fly.io and Railway;

• Detecting body poses in a live video feed by Matteo Altobello provides examples of using Vision framework with live video feed;

• Natalia Panferova goes through use of @ScaledMetrics and dynamic type sizes in SwiftUI – Adapting images and symbols to Dynamic Type sizes in SwiftUI;

• Pixel-perfect rendering and avoiding blurred edges is discussed in Rendering Pixel Art with SwiftUI by Chris Trott.

This would be it. Have a wonderful weekend, we’ll have more interesting reads next Friday!