Real World Swift

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• Real-World SwiftUI Part 4 - When Does a SwiftUI View Actually Exist?

  October 11, 2026 · 45 min

  The central question for this episode sounds simple but exposes one of SwiftUI’s deepest conceptual traps: When you write MyView(), when its body runs, when onAppear fires, when it becomes visible, and when its state is alive, are those…

• Real-World SwiftUI Part 3 - Why Did That Modifier Change Everything?

  October 6, 2026 · 51 min

  The goal of this episode is to replace one of the most common beginner mental models for SwiftUI... “Modifiers are properties I’m setting on a view.” ...with the much more useful model: A modifier changes the view description at the point…

• Real-World SwiftUI Part 2 - Who Owns the State?

  August 10, 2026 · 47 min

  "State doesn't belong to the View struct. It belongs to an identity SwiftUI maintains in its view graph." That one sentence unlocks a tremendous amount of SwiftUI. This episode explains why.

• Real-World SwiftUI Part 1 - Stop Thinking in UIKit

  August 9, 2026 · 43 min

  We kick off our ten-part series on real-world SwiftUI, discussing why SwiftUI sometimes seems “magical” to UIKit developers, and why that behavior is actually fundamental to its design.

• Apple’s Future of Mobile Design, Part 2: Beyond the App

  July 31, 2026 · 54 min

  In Part 2, we look beyond Apple’s new visual language to the deeper philosophy guiding its future interfaces. We unpack Apple’s principles of purpose, agency, familiarity, flexibility, simplicity, responsibility, craft, and delight, then…

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