https://appcoding.com/tags/swift/ Recent content in Swift on App Coding Hugo en-us Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://appcoding.com/2025/11/05/swiftui-after-five-years-what-works-and-what-doesnt/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://appcoding.com/2025/11/05/swiftui-after-five-years-what-works-and-what-doesnt/ <p>SwiftUI launched in 2019 with a demonstration that made experienced iOS developers simultaneously excited and nervous. Excited because the declarative paradigm promised to eliminate the impedance mismatch between interface builder storyboards and code. Nervous because Apple&rsquo;s track record with new frameworks included several that were replaced, deprecated, or quietly ignored within a few development cycles.</p> <p>Five years later, SwiftUI is neither the complete replacement for UIKit that Apple&rsquo;s marketing implied nor the abandoned experiment that skeptics predicted. It is a mature but still-evolving framework that handles a large majority of common iOS UI requirements elegantly, struggles with a specific set of advanced requirements, and has permanently changed how iOS UI code is written even when developers reach for UIKit to solve problems SwiftUI cannot.</p> https://appcoding.com/2025/09/10/swift-vs-kotlin-the-state-of-native-mobile-development-in-2026/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://appcoding.com/2025/09/10/swift-vs-kotlin-the-state-of-native-mobile-development-in-2026/ <p>The question of whether to build natively for iOS and Android or to abstract across both platforms with a cross-platform framework has occupied mobile development teams for more than a decade. The answer has not settled. What has settled is the character of native development itself — and in 2026, Swift and Kotlin have each reached a maturity that makes the native argument significantly stronger than it was five years ago.</p>