SwiftLeeds 2023
2023-10-09..2023-10-10
Leeds, United Kingdom
[SwiftLeeds 2022, SwiftLeeds 2023, SwiftLeeds 2024, SwiftLeeds 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Introducing | 01m | |
Conference returns for its third edition and expands from one day to two, with a concrete lineup of 18 speakers and an added programme of Drop-In Sessions… | ||
| Highlights | 02m | |
SwiftLeeds 2023 fills The Playhouse with about 300 attendees over two days and 17 talks focused on practical iOS work. Notes highlight real takeaways: SwiftUI… | ||
| Live Scores with Live Activities | Fawkes Wei | 36m |
Forza Football builds a native Live Activity that shows match score, minute and latest event but discovers key limits: Live Activities cannot make network… | ||
| SwiftUI Performance for Demanding Apps | Aviel Gross | 35m |
Adobe Bēhance rebuilds navigation infra and the main Feed in SwiftUI and targets iPhone 6S Plus while keeping the app at 60fps. Focuses on concrete techniques… | ||
| Achieving Loose Coupling with Pure Dependency | Simon B Støvring | 17m |
A Swift example app called CoffeeShops shows manual Pure Dependency Injection using initializer injection and a single app-target Composition Root layer that… | ||
| Driving Success with UX | Richie Flores | 37m |
Claims that good UX raises engagement, conversion and brand value and three actionable pillars: seamless integration across Apple devices, intuitive… | ||
| A Guide to Using StoreKit2 | Tunde Adegoroye | 32m |
Builds a working tip‑jar using StoreKit2 and Swift Concurrency, fetching items with products(for:) and showing localized titles via displayPrice/displayName… | ||
| Build a Binary | Anna Chiara Beltrami | 41m |
Investigation traces a Swift Playgrounds build failure when adding Firebase that surfaces the error clang Target is not supported and reveals that Playgrounds… | ||
| The Art of a Balanced Life (Keynote) | Krzysztof Zabłocki | 36m |
Built dozens of open‑source tools that are already used by 80,000 apps, then burns out after 13 years of 60–80 hour weeks and shifts to consulting limited to… | ||
| iOS at | Joel Kin | 30m |
Argues that Staff+ for mobile means proactive business impact, not just deeper coding, and that promotion hinges on a relationship with senior leadership (VP)… | ||
| SwiftUI Navigation Demystified | Ibrahima Ciss | 32m |
Shows how replacing NavigationView with NavigationStack plus a stateful NavigationPath and NavigationLink(value:) actually enables programmatic navigation… | ||
| Working with XcodeKit | Aryaman Sharda | 28m |
Covers building Xcode Source Editor Extensions with XcodeKit, showing concrete commands that convert JSON → Codable model, wrap hardcoded strings in… | ||
| The Power of Cloud Functions | Zamzam Farzamipooya | 31m |
Shows how to write and deploy real Firebase backend code: TypeScript functions (example userIsLegal callable and a URL summariser using OpenAI), local testing… | ||
| Mess around and find out | Alex Logan | 32m |
It's easier than ever to be a part time indie.
Working on your own apps and ideas can both lead to success personally and have a huge impact on your day job… | ||
| Managing App Complexity | Chris Vasselli | 28m |
Nihongo grows from 25,000 → 100,000 LOC and shifts from three screens to a 30‑way configuration space when adding device, language and display dimensions, so… | ||
| ICYMI: Enums Are... | Jessie Linden | 27m |
Builds PocketPerc: Beat Generator using SwiftUI and AVFoundation, showing concrete enum patterns that replace structs/classes for app state and UI… | ||
| Building command-line user experiences with Swift | Pol Piella Abadia | 32m |
Builds a real MusiCLI that searches Apple Music via MusicKit and can open a SwiftUI window from the terminal. Uses Swift Package Manager and… | ||
| Under the hood: 3D transforms of iOS Views | Alex Lee | 35m |
Explains how iOS applies 4x4 matrices to every view point and shows the concrete CATransform3D matrices for translations, scales and rotations, including why… | ||
| Building Accessible Maps and Navigation | Robin Kanatzar | 15m |
Eight concrete best practices for usable maps: question whether a map adds value, simplify views by limit gestures and annotations, start with a list and… | ||
| How many compilers does Xcode have? | Anna Chiara Beltrami | 01m |
Claims Xcode contains five compilers and then proves it by inspecting the Xcode bundle and command‑line tools, showing which binaries actually compile code… | ||
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