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It's here! LaunchBuddy can finally be connected to your App Store Connect account. No, this isn't a replacement for ASC. Currently, there are three integrations: - Read & reply to app store reviews - View app store analytics - Publish release notes straight to ASC

@rudrank Congrats on getting featured!!

Hey that’s me! Nice of Apple to recognise the amazing folks from the iOS community 🙌🏾 developer.apple.com/community/reco…

New goal unlocked: get feature on this page. To be honest, I was a little sad seeing this pop up in my emails yesterday. But it motivates me to keep going and work on increasing my impact. 262 videos on Swift/SwiftUI so far. Many more to come.

🚨 Free Screenshot Audit Drop your apps below to get a free screenshot audit. I‘m making a video about common problems in App Store screenshots. Drop your apps below below to get featured & get honest feedback.

@JasjeevAnand @DanGW_92 I don't know.

@FloWritesCode @DanGW_92 Even without installing SFSymbols?

Friendly reminder that CMD + Shift + L brings up this SF symbol picker right inside Xcode.

@athcanft Would love to hear your opinion apps.apple.com/de/app/mental-…

drop your app and i’ll roast it on video 👇

@DanGW_92 And it's always been there!

@FloWritesCode Wait what ?!

@CodeWithChris Lately Previews have stopped working for me, even in new projects. Perhaps my M1 Mac is getting a little old. But if they work, I always use them. Speeds up UI work tremendously.

Do you use Previews in Xcode when you're building your views? I got into the habit of deleting them and one of my students pointed out how useful they can be. We want to hear more opinions and perspectives!

@klemensstrasser Congrats & enjoy the rest of your vacation!

It is a really good problem to have - but I really can’t take a vacation without bringing a laptop 💻 (Deadline is last day of the vacation) #indiedev

As the topic of SizeClasses came up in the comments, I made a full video covering the different options to write platform-specific SwiftUI: youtu.be/JEEWLOs4uY8

LaunchBuddy has become more intelligent! The newest update brings app chat (with access to your app's tasks, releases, analytics, reviews & more), idea chat (to flesh out app ideas before working on them), turning reviews into backlog items, and much more. @LaunchBuddy_App

This animation is implemented with AlignmentGuides. A truly "magic" API. Video + "Playground app" coming soon, stay tuned!

@mykolaharmash Great stuff! I've used WhatsNewKit until now. Any chance you're planning to support the other platforms aside from iOS?

I made a free, open-source component to show release notes in iOS apps.

In addition to the video on AlignmentGuides, I'm also building a playground app to explore the API in practice.

@alpennec This is exactly why I've been thinking about getting a Whoop for years. The screen on Apple Watch isn't what I use it for. The problem with Whoop is that I dislike the subscription-based pricing for a hardware product.

Do you think Apple will have a Google Fitbit Air competitor one day? Or would it cannibalize too much the Apple Watch? I'm wearing my Watch just for the health features. Honestly, I would prefer a long battery life over a screen and apps (I never use them).

Just from this piece of code, could you describe what is shown on screen? I always found "AlignmentGuides" super confusing. So I'm preparing a video on the topic now.

Another day, another screenshot iteration for LaunchBuddy.app Light BG = Old Dark BG = New What do you think?

@ferga1ici0us Not sure what your question is, because these are computed properties.

Platform-specific code is important if your app supports multiple platforms (e.g. iPhone and iPad), but shares one UI codebase. I use the below approach for my iPhone + iPad + Mac project LaunchBuddy. The #if os(iOS) checks are needed, because UIDevice doesn't exist on macOS (if you aren't using Catalyst).

@mecid Depends on what you want to accomplish I'd say. For general layout things, sizeClasses are definitely the better option. But I e.g. want to add ScrollViews on iPads (both portrait and landscape), so the "CurrentDevice" implementation is perfect for that.

@FloWritesCode I think it is better to use size classes instead.