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Issue 90
Nov 23, 2021

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THIS WEEK'S BLOG POST
Last week, I already introduced you to non-fatal error handling. I decided that it's important enough to me to write it down in an article and convince you about the importance of tracking non-fatal errors. A crash-free percentage of 99% is excellent but doesn't prove that your app is performing well. Let me explain to you why in this week's article.

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ROCKETSIM BETA TESTING
Over the past few weeks, I've been working hard towards the 6.0 version of RocketSim. A prominent new feature allows you to create screenshots and recordings with device bezels enabled, resulting in professional Simulator recordings.

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INTERVIEW
I’ve had a great chat with the team behind Enginears Podcast in which we discuss launching our latest app in less than 3 months, as well as how we adopting Swift Package Manager and SwiftUI.

CURATED FROM THE COMMUNITY

CODE
You might want to disable a specific view when SwiftUI Preview is active. Rob Kerr explains how this works.
I enjoyed reading this article since I’ve been working with video players quite a few times at my previous job. It’s great to see Marco implementing a video player by combining AVKit and SwiftUI while adding support for Picture in Picture.
An exciting technique demonstrated by Ralf Ebert is that you can turn the states of an async operation into a SwifUI View representation.
A new beta of Xcode arrived last week in which we were excited to see improved build times and more. Five Stars Blog takes us through some of the SwiftUI changes that came as well.
Creating a REST API client was one of the first things when I started writing my first app. It’s always a hot topic and becomes even more interesting when Alex Grebenyuk writes about it combined with techniques like async/await. He’s covered more than just the API Client since he also describes mocking, logging, debugging proxies, and more.
An exciting technique demonstrated by Bruno Rocha creates his own constraints warning monitoring by swizzling in Swift. This technique allowed him to catch constraint warnings and track them in tools like Firebase.
Speech recognition being available through Apple’s APIs is simply incredible to me. In the days with iOS 4, we didn’t even have collection views, let alone a built-in framework for recognizing speech. Kamil Tustanowski explains to use how you can use this API.

STORIES
The Best-in-Class I did a giveaway on earlier is reaching the $100,000 sales milestone. An outstanding achievement by Jordan Morgan, at which he found time to look back on his journey. What marketing tactics worked? How does it feel to be Indie, fully focused on writing?
Greg Gardner shares his learnings from spending the whole summer (and more after the SharePlay delay) working out a SharePlay Guessing Game. If you’re interested in how SharePlay works, you’re going to like this article.

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