try! Swift Tokyo 2025
2025-04-09..2025-04-11
Tokyo, Japan
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who it's for
Swift developers, iOS developers, SwiftUI designers, visionOS developers, mobile game developers, tooling and compiler engineers, app security researchers
topics
SwiftUI path animations; Text rendering with MSDFs; Metal fragment shaders; VisionPro hand tracking; TabletopKit for visionOS; RealityKit 3D content; Charts API as drawing canvas; Swift OpenAPI streaming proxies; Swift Regex implementation; Swift and Java interoperability; HDR and EDR rendering; SwiftSyntax and code generation
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What's new in iOS 17, 16, 15, etc. | Vincent Pradeilles | 21m |
Shows concrete, usable APIs and demos: date and number formatting via formatted replaces error‑prone format strings; privacy hiding via privacySensitive and… | ||
| Exploring SwiftUI Path Animations featuring Japan Symbol Quiz | 07m | |
Shows an implementation claim: SVG → CGPath conversion plus a custom Shape that exposes AnimatableData progress 0→1 and uses a path‑showing function to reveal… | ||
| Swift WTF: Weirdness, traps, and fixes | Sophie Hudson | 20m |
Expect specifics: binary floating math shows 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 so use Swift Numeric or use a Decimal type for exactness; operator precedence makes -10^2… | ||
| App Art: Great App Design Done Quick | Sebastiaan de With | 21m |
Shows how Halide becomes a tactile camera by shipping concrete features not handwavey ideals: swipe up/down for exposure and swipe left/right for focus, custom… | ||
| Graph Art with Charts API | Beyond DataVisualization | 07m |
Charts API gets repurposed as a drawing canvas using math not presets: three finished pieces built from only three chart types, created with polar coordinates… | ||
| AI-Assisted Swift in Gamifying an iOS App | Chris Zai | 25m |
Claims AI speeds Swift and SwiftUI prototyping are backed by concrete examples: a Pikmin Bloom–style proof of concept, a fusion offspring color/face mapping… | ||
| Special effects with SwiftUI Text | Paul Hudson | 25m |
Shows concrete tricks not vague promises: uses SwiftUI and the TextRenderer protocol (iOS 18+) to render lines, runs, and individual glyphs; implements a… | ||
| Swift Programming in Japanese | Ryo Yamashita | 17m |
In Swift, you can define identifiers not only in English but also in various natural languages. Recently, I released a Shogi app for all Apple platforms… | ||
| Understanding HDR | Benjamin Sandofsky | 20m |
Declares HDR as a display leap comparable to HDTV then shows concrete plumbing: Apple uses adaptive HDR that stores an HDR gain map inside JPEG EXIF rather… | ||
| What I Did to Shut Down a Personally Developed App with Over 400K Downloads | Kazuya Ueoka | 07m |
A solo developer closed WebCollector (≈429K downloads) because Safari full‑page screenshots and ad rule changes made features obsolete and rising Firebase… | ||
| Searching for Aliens | Noah Martin | 22m |
Uses the Drake Equation as a template and gives concrete claims: 10^22 stars is a dominant scale factor, a 110 MB download times US grid efficiency yields… | ||
| Let's Table That: Creating Games with TabletopKit for visionOS | Mikaela Caron | 16m |
TabletopKit targets visionOS 2.0+, Xcode 16, and provides concrete primitives: a single table, seats with poses, equipment IDs, and entity equipment for board… | ||
| Write iOS Game Once and Play in Any Way | UJ Cheng | 05m |
A tiny balance game that only needs left/right input is implemented once and driven by six real input methods: slider and on‑screen buttons, Core Motion… | ||
| Rendering beautiful text using MSDFs and Metal. | Michael Petrie | 22m |
A music app called Variations uses a real-time infinite canvas UI implemented with Metal and runs at 60 fps immediate mode; text rendering switches from raster… | ||
| Raymarching Shaders with SwiftUI | Andrew Zheng | 20m |
SwiftUI code compiles fragment shaders (with a single rectangle vertex) that run per pixel to produce 3D via signed distance functions and ray marching; shapes… | ||
| I Built an App for NeXTSTEP or | Jeffrey Bergier | 11m |
Builds a working calculator-like app that runs across classic NeXTSTEP/OS X releases and demonstrates it actually solves expressions with order of operations… | ||
| VisionPro × Text to 3D Model | Ryo Igarashi | 19m |
A working Vision Pro (visionOS) demo app called Model maker app released on the App Store shows text prompts turning into 3D models by calling server‑side… | ||
| Live coding a streaming ChatGPT proxy with Swift OpenAPI—from scratch! | Si Beaumont | 20m |
Builds a type-safe ChatGPT client and a Linux proxy server from scratch and demonstrates they work live: generated code via Swift OpenAPI Generator, URLSession… | ||
| Apple Vision Pro New Interface Based on Hand Tracking | 23m | |
A Swift/SwiftUI implementation recreates visionOS SystemOverlay behavior on Apple Vision Pro using SpecialTrackingSession hand tracking, RealityView… | ||
| Bring life to your iOS Application with 3D content using RealityKit | Kosala Jayasekara | 23m |
Shows a concrete pipeline: macOS Photogrammetry API or iOS Object Capture API (iOS 17+) turns a photo set into a mesh — one demo uses 30 photos produced usable… | ||
| Swift×Android: How Skip is Shaping the Future of Cross-Platform Development | 06m | |
Skip claims to run compiled native Swift on Android and shows an outfit photo management app built with it, using native mode versus transpile mode and… | ||
| Capturing Immersive Videos of J1 Pro Soccer Team FC Machida Zelvia | Satoshi Hattori | 28m |
A project that filmed FC Machida Zelvia across three shoots (two J1 matches) using a Canon EOS R5C with a dual‑fisheye lens to capture stereo 180° video at ~8K… | ||
| SwiftSyntax: for good and evil | Nick Lockwood | 27m |
Explains how SwiftSyntax (16 modules) parses a concrete syntax tree and how the demo builds a small REPL called ripple that uses SwiftSyntax parser, operator… | ||
| Let’s Try Making Things Move with Swift! | Ryota Motonishi | 06m |
Simple four line physics code models a spring and ball using mass stiffness a time step position and velocity and computes force with Hooke's law to update… | ||
| SwiftUI API Design Lessons:Bridging Procedural APIs with theDeclarativeWorld | Yoshimasa Niwa | 16m |
Builds a working photo and video capture app using AVFoundation and an AVCaptureSession and shows that SwiftUI can represent session scope by preserving a… | ||
| Introduction to security research and bounty hunting on Apple's platforms | Guilherme Rambo | 23m |
An accessible path into platform security that focuses on concrete technique: using Hopper, Ghidra/IDA/Binary Ninja and LLDB for static and dynamic analysis… | ||
| Spice up your notifications | 05m | |
Claims a practical hack that actually displays Genmoji in notifications on iOS18 by reverse engineering the image blob, extracting the H image and its… | ||
| Build your own Swift Regex: A Gentle Introduction to Swift Regex | Kishikawa Katsumi | 20m |
Swift regex engine still lacks features like lookbehind and is hard to change, so this session implements concatenation alternation repetition in a tiny Swift… | ||
| Foreign Function and Memory APIs and Swift/Java interoperability | Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski | 24m |
Concrete interoperability work connects Swift and Java using Foreign Function and Memory API (JDK22) with a JNI fallback, plus a jextract-swift generator that… | ||
| Unlock the Potential of Swift Code Generation | 21m | |
Claims that Swift can match Java-style annotation processing by combining Swift macros with a build tool plugin and Swift Syntax tools; shows a concrete DI… | ||
| Understanding Render Loop to optimise SwiftUI | Pradnya Nikam | 23m |
Explains SwiftUI's render loop phases (event, view update, render, display) and shows a real animation that hitches until adding the drawingGroup modifier… | ||
| EXIT 8 for SwiftUI | 06m | |
Practical guidance for deciding when to wrap UIKit versus staying in SwiftUI using eight concrete patterns: an exclusiveTouch wrapper to prevent simultaneous… | ||
| Designing Modular Data Pipeline | Krzysztof Zabłocki | 21m |
Claims a three-stage pipeline (source → transformer → consumer) that enables swapping components and unit testing, backed by composition and type erasure… | ||
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