Stewart Lynch News2025-23 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Please pass on the subscription link to others in your sphere so I can broaden my reach.https://stewartlynch.kit.com How Smart is Xcode? Last Sunday, I released the second video in my Xcode 26 series, this time focusing on the features you unlock once you’ve upgraded to macOS 26. With Apple Intelligence now baked into Xcode, I showed you how to enable and use the new coding assistant to explain code, refactor deprecated APIs, create...
8 days ago • 3 min read
Stewart Lynch News2025-22 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Please pass on the subscription link to others in your sphere so I can broaden my reach.https://stewartlynch.kit.com The WWDC 25 Series has begun Last Sunday's video was all about the changes you can start using immediately in Xcode 26, but there is no need to upgrade to macOS 26 just yet! I walked you through the brand-new Start Page, the redesigned Settings UI, navigation behavior changes, and the amazing new @Playground macro. Plus,...
15 days ago • 3 min read
Stewart Lynch News2025-21 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Please pass on the subscription link to others in your sphere so I can broaden my reach.https://stewartlynch.kit.com Power Up Your SwiftUI UI with Emoji & Symbol Pickers Last week, I released a video that shows you how to integrate two of my Swift packages — Emoji Picker and SF Symbols Picker — into your SwiftUI apps. I walk through how to install them, customize the pickers, and apply them to real-world use cases like mood tracking...
22 days ago • 2 min read
Stewart Lynch News2025-20 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Please pass on the subscription link to others in your sphere so I can broaden my reach.https://stewartlynch.kit.com Hiding in plain sight In last Sunday’s video, I walked through a real-world example of just how easy it is to extract an API key from a compiled iOS app—even if it was never committed to source control. Using a simple thesaurus app that fetches synonyms from the Merriam-Webster API, I demonstrated the dangers of...
29 days ago • 3 min read
Stewart Lynch News2025-19 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Please pass on the subscription link to others in your sphere so I can broaden my reach.https://stewartlynch.kit.com Mastering Unit Conversions in Swift (Without the Headaches!) Last week, I released a video showing how to take the pain out of unit conversions in your Swift apps. I covered how to use Swift’s powerful Measurement API to safely convert, format, and even create custom units — all with practical, real-world examples....
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Stewart Lynch News2025-18 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Please pass on the subscription link to others in your sphere so I can broaden my reach.https://stewartlynch.kit.com This Week's Video Arrays are great, but they’re not always the right tool for the job. In this video, we dived deep into Sets in Swift, exploring what makes them unique, how to use them effectively, and when to choose them over arrays. You learned: How to create and manipulate sets The key differences between sets and...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Stewart Lynch News2025-17 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Please pass on the subscription link to others in your sphere so I can broaden my reach.https://stewartlynch.kit.com This Week's Video Ever wished renaming your Xcode project was easier? In my latest video, I show you how to build and use a custom command line tool that quickly renames your entire Xcode project, including targets, folders, and identifiers. The tool is based on an excellent Swift script originally created by Marko...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Stewart Lynch News2025-16 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Please pass on the subscription link to others in your sphere so I can broaden my reach.https://stewartlynch.kit.com This Week's Video Transform Your SwiftUI Components Into Reusable Swift Packages The third installment in my SFSymbolPicker series is now live! If you’ve ever wanted to take your SwiftUI app components and turn them into a Swift package for easy reuse and sharing, this tutorial is for you. In this step-by-step video, I...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Stewart Lynch News2025-15 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Please pass on the subscription link to others in your sphere so I can broaden my reach.https://stewartlynch.kit.com This Week's Video This week, I continued my SF Symbols series with a practical deep dive into building a flexible and reusable symbol picker for SwiftUI projects. In the tutorial, I showed how to decode plist files from the SF Symbols app, organize the data into models, and create a loader class using the new @Observable...
2 months ago • 3 min read