Swift 6 aims to detect many concurrency issues at compile time. Fixing these new warnings and errors at compile time should prevent so-called “data-races” from showing up as intermittent run-time errors. This goal is important and even urgent because software developers are increasingly relying on concurrency to utilise multi-core processors and to perform slow tasks…
Standard text localization When you create apps for the Apple ecosystem, you may need to support multiple languages. This is a key part of what is known as localization. It comes down to creating an English version of text strings – say the label of a “Submit” button -, and providing translations of “Submit” to…
Release 2.5.0 of the Photo Club Hub iOS app is now available on Github and Apple’s App Store. The main changes are: What’s next? As you can see on GitHub, a next update will improve the Maps on the Photo Clubs page. This is because Apple’s MapKit framework for SwiftUI has changed in iOS17, and some old…
The iOS app formerly-known-as Photo Club Waalre (and Photogroep Waalre) has been renamed to Photo Club Hub. This applies to the code repository on Github, and to version 2.4.0 and above on Apple’s App Store. The name change emphasizes that the app is no longer tied to any single photo club. Since version 2.0 the…
The Fotogroep Waalre app (called “Photo Club Waalre” in English) has a new version on the Apple App Store. Starting with v2.1.0 the app’s source code is now also available on a public GitHub repository. This was a matter of conforming to GitHub conventions (like having a markdown readme file). But it took quite some…
The Swift source code of the Fotogroep Waalre app is now in a GitHub repository. This allows software developers who are interested in photography to join in.
