Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2025/13

Whole lot of different topics this time

WWDC25 is announced, hopefully, you applied for in-person special event, if you plan coming to Bay Area. So, now we wait for the results and could spend some time reading interesting development articles over the weekend.

• WebKit team explains use of declarative Web Push in Safari – Meet Declarative Web Push;

• Great deep dive into security, encryption and cryptography by Natascha Fadeeva with Symmetric-key cryptography with CryptoKit for iOS and Public-key cryptography with CryptoKit for iOS;

• ModelActor is Just Weird by Matt Massicotte explores SwiftData’s ModelActor protocol and corresponding macro and their behavior that depends on which thread it is being created;

• Majid Jabrayilov explains DispatchGroup replacement in modern Swift concurrency – Awaiting multiple async tasks in Swift;

• SwiftUI Default Scroll Anchor by Keith Harrison solves an interesting UI problem – center contents in scroll view if there is nothing to scroll;

• Antoine van der Lee guides through TabView in SwiftUI with code examples – SwiftUI TabView: Explained with Code Examples;

• Dare to test an ugly paywall? Here’s why you should by Hanna Grevelius goes through various design aspects for good paywalls;

• Topic of paywall designs is continued in How four paywall redesigns boosted conversions and revenue by Vahe Baghdasaryan;

• Jesse Squires built great workflow to create screenshots for Mac App Store automatically – How to automate perfect screenshots for the Mac App Store;

• Designing for Apple Intelligence: Extending your app features to the system by Matteo Altobello emphasizes importance of using App Intents to make app discoverable by Siri and Shortcuts;

• Antonella Giugliano writes about Search Intent – Integrating the Search Intent using Assistant Schemas;

• Another article by Matteo Altobello provides real-world example of Vision framework usage – Detecting Barcodes on an image with the Vision Framework;

• Natalia Panferova talks about performance implications of different method dispatch mechanisms in Swift – Method dispatch mechanisms in Swift: static and dynamic dispatch;

• Swift + Zed = ❤️ by Tornike Gomareli gives an overview of Swift support in Zed code editor.

Not too much for this weekend. As always, there will be more next week.