The iOS Weekly Brief

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #55

Hello Developer April 2026, SwiftUI List alternatives, spec-driven development with AI, and the real cost of vibe coding.

Apr 10 • Vlad Khambir

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #54

App Store adds 11 new languages, SwiftUI onAppear lifecycle explained, engineers should build skills not features, and the Claude Code source leak

Apr 3 • Vlad Khambir

March 2026

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #53

WWDC26 is June 8, Swift 6.3 and Xcode 26.4 are out, preparing your codebase for AI agents, modularizing a monolith, and Voice Control in SwiftUI

Mar 27 • Vlad Khambir

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #52

Apple blocks vibe coding apps, Xcode 26.4 RC lands, the iOS dev toolkit beyond Xcode, some vs any explained, compilation cache in practice, String…

Mar 20 • Vlad Khambir

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #51

Thread safety in Swift, drop SwiftGen for good, GCD migration traps nobody warns you about, and 9 frontier models in one coding test

Mar 13 • Vlad Khambir

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #50

Seven new Apple products, SwiftUI Onion Architecture, passkeys done right, and why your coding agent needs access to your analytics

Mar 6 • Vlad Khambir

February 2026

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #49

Touchscreen Mac is coming, Xcode 26.3 is out, SwiftUI animation process, SE-0508 trailing closures, automated migration tests and OSLog logging

Feb 27 • Vlad Khambir

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #48

Apple Experience on March 4, iOS 26.4 betas are out, agentic delivery pipelines, SwiftUI toast above everything, CLI tools over MCP servers, and…

Feb 20 • Vlad Khambir

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #47

Swift Student Challenge is open, the four ways developers use AI, SwiftData gets model inheritance, and a hands-on look at agentic Xcode

Feb 13 • Vlad Khambir

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #46

Agentic workflows in Xcode, Observation framework deep dives, and why your SwiftUI animations break

Feb 6 • Vlad Khambir

January 2026

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #45

Swift goes Windows, AI speeds you up (and breaks you faster), linking choices that actually matter, and why your pickers keep surprising you in prod.

Jan 30 • Vlad Khambir

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #44

New Apple hardware, MVVM-C scalability, designing empty states in SwiftUI, Universal Links at scale, real-world StoreKit 2 subscriptions, AI-powered dev…

Jan 23 • Vlad Khambir