Side Project Spotlight Philly CocoaHeads

The trio convenes the night after the Keynote to discuss some of the highlights from this year's WWDC including "Apple Intelligence," UI animations, SwiftData improvements, Swift Testing, iPhone mirroring, and more!



## Topics Discussed:

- Introductions

- Apple Intelligence

- Widgets Everywhere

- Zoom Transitions & Other Updates

- SwiftData

- SwiftUI Views @MainActor

- Xcode Tabs Now Make Sense!

- SwiftUI Previews

- Swift Testing

- iPhone miring on macOS

- Finally…

- Passwords.app

- Tap to Cash

- iPad Calcula tor App / Math Notes

- Wrap-Up & One More Thing…

- https://phillycocoa.org



Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.

The trio discuss WWDC24 rumors and wishlists in advance of what feels like the biggest Apple conference in years. Stay until the end to hear our WWDC Bingo Card items and our guesses for how many times the acronym "AI" will be spoken during the keynote with Aaron making the most intriguing guess.



## Topics Discussed:

- Introductions

- Developer Conference Season

- Year of “AI”

- Microsoft Recall Feature

- Copilot button

- Apple has already been using “AI”!

- CoreML

- Object detection

- Vision

- Hand gesture

- Photo identification

- Text-to-Speech

- Siri!

- MacRumors WWDC24 Rumors!

- https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/wwdc/

- Developer Wishlist

- “AI” code writing in Xcode

- SwiftData Improvements

- VisionOS improvements

- Siri Shortcuts Integration

- Widgets in VisionOS

- Bingo Card Items

- Arc Browser Sherlocked

- Widgets for VisionOS

- VisionOS 2.0 (not 1.5)

- Trello Sherlocked

- New game engine

- # of times “AI” spoken

- Kotaro - 20+

- Aaron - 1 single time

- Steve - 50+

- Wrap-Up & Jokes

- https://phillycocoa.org



Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.

The trio discuss the new M4 iPad Pros, both the updates and the use cases. Who are these devices for and do the new models really represent the biggest update in the iPad lineup in years? Plus, Kotaro teases a new game to be built with Godot.



## Topics Discussed:

- Introductions

- New iPad Pros

- What are iPads useful for?

- Pencil Pro updates

- What Nobody Else Told You About Tandem OLED and M4! (Snazzy Labs)

- https://youtu.be/3moprE5S3Qc

- Kotaro teases a new game to be built with Godot

- https://godotengine.org

- Killer Klowns from Outer Space

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095444/

- Wrap-Up & Jokes

- https://phillycocoa.org



Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.

Joe Cieplinski returns to the pod to talk about his latest app, The Last Word, a journal app for tracking your personal cocktail journey. Built using the latest iOS 17 technologies from SwiftUI to SwiftData with a cross-platform design that includes visionOS, our discussion touches on many topics that will be of interest if you are starting your own greenfield side project app.



## Topics Discussed:

- Introductions / Welcome Joe Cieplinski

- The Last Word in Cocktails app

- https://havethelastword.app/

- iOS 17, SwiftUI, SwiftData, VisionOS

- Story behind the name

- Opinionated Design

- Custom Artwork

- App Store Optimization

- App Store Subscription

- RevenueCat article about using StoreKit 2

- https://www.revenuecat.com/blog/engineering/ios-in-app-subscription-tutorial-with-storekit-2-and-swift/

- Meet StoreKit for SwiftUI WWDC23 Video

- https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10013/

- App Store Analytics

- AppFigures

- https://appfigures.com

- VisionOS Apps / Development

- MKBHD Disney VR floor video

- https://youtu.be/1KEtxTQUzxY

- Future plans for The Last Word

- Where to find Joe

- Mastodon

- https://mastodon.social/@jcieplinski

- Web

- https://joec.design

- Get the App!

- https://havethelastword.app

- Wrap-Up

- https://phillycocoa.org

- One More Thing…

- WWDC wishes from Joe

- New PencilKit

- SwiftUI photo capture & other updates

- SwiftData updates

- VisionOS Window Management



Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.

This episode is all about SwiftData. Steve has started using it a lot lately and talks about his experience so far trying to sync a bunch of API data into a SwiftData model as well as using a Swift Actor to control write access to the data container in a thread-safe manner. There are some really useful links in the show notes this week. You'll want to bookmark them all!

## Topics Discussed:
- Introductions
- Steve’s Real World SwiftData Experience…so far
- Maintaining a local copy of server data
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftdata/maintaining-a-local-copy-of-server-data
- Practical SwiftData: Building SwiftUI Applications with Modern Approaches
- https://fatbobman.com/en/posts/practical-swiftdata-building-swiftui-applications-with-modern-approaches/
- Concurrency of SwiftData | Donny Wals
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG4oCnQ0bfw
- Observable Architecture: Structural Identity | PointFree
- https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep260-observable-architecture-structural-identity
- Populating SwiftData from Server (ETag) Explained | Azam Sharp
- https://youtu.be/f_Amhej1bkM
- Tangent: Rendering HTML in SwiftUI with a WebView
- Wrap-Up & Jokes
- https://phillycocoa.org

Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.

Jumping off from one of our topics last episode, this week we are tackling the idea of working a 9 to 5 with a side project. What are the challenges? How do you maintain motivation? What time management strategies work? Are there any tools that can help you stay organized? Steve has some concrete tips based on his recent experience trying to juggle side projects and a day job while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Kotaro and Aaron provide the perspective of developers working a traditional in-office, corporate job and the challenges that creates for side project success. Along the way, we discuss how to make a website using Swift, the WWDC24 announcement, and Kotaro shares his latest insights about Reality Composer Pro. There are some good tips, tools, and techniques in this episode for those trying to find a healthy balance while working towards that side project dream.



## Topics Discussed:

- Introductions

- Using Swift to Build a Website

- https://github.com/twostraws/Ignite

- https://github.com/johnsundell/publish

- Flutter vs React vs Native

- News: WWDC24 Announced

- Fun With Reality Composer Pro

- 9 to 5 Lifestyle with a Side Project

- Four Thousand Weeks book (not an affiliate link)

- https://www.amazon.com/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortals/dp/0374159122

- Sleep++

- https://sleepplusplus.app

- Wrap-Up & Not a Sponsor

- https://AzamSharp.school



Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.