iOS Dev Tools: SwiftSafeUI, Northstar, Ezscreenshots
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SwiftSafeUI
Swift package designed to streamline the management of deprecated SwiftUI APIs across OS versions. It provides a clean and efficient way to handle deprecation logic, ensuring your app always uses the latest APIs while seamlessly falling back to older, deprecated ones when necessary.
Why you will like it:
Automatically uses the latest SwiftUI APIs while gracefully falling back to older alternatives when needed.
Eliminates the need for scattered version checks and conditional logic, centralizing compatibility handling.
Ensures your app remains adaptable as SwiftUI evolves, reducing manual maintenance and technical debt.
Keeps your UI code clean, structured, and responsive, regardless of the OS versions your app supports.
Provides safe modifiers, views, and environment values that abstract away compatibility concerns, allowing you to focus on building features.
Northstar
App Store Optimization for macOS without the guesswork. Every keyword gets an opportunity score so you always know what matters and where to focus.
Why you will like it:
Track every keyword that matters. No caps, no tiers. Monitor as many keywords as your strategy demands.
Keep tabs on every competitor. Analyze their keywords, reviews, and metadata changes to stay one step ahead.
Pull and push metadata directly from ASC. Your keywords, titles, and subtitles stay in sync without copy-pasting.
Use the MCP server to connect Northstar to Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM. Optimize metadata without leaving your workflow.
Ezscreenshots
A simple screenshot maker for the App Store and Play Store.
Why you will like it:
Pixel-perfect presets for every device size: iPhone, iPad, and Android.
Zoom callouts to highlight features with magnified overlays.
AI Localization translate captions into 30+ languages in one click.
Multiple Screenshots allows to edit all your screens at once and export them as a ZIP.
Latitude - It helps developers find and fix failure modes before they reach production. Most tools give you logs. Latitude gives you issues: failure modes with states and evals attached.
Pipali - AI coworker that lives on your computer. It interacts with your files, browser, and apps to get real work done. Handles deep research, polished docs, browser tasks, and routine errands. Teach it your workflows with Skills, run recurring tasks with Routines, and integrate with apps like Linear, Slack, and GitHub via MCP.
Linker - Connects files, folders, emails, and websites through bidirectional links, making scattered information feel oddly coherent. Fast keyboard shortcuts, plain JSON storage, and a clean, unobtrusive design keep everything within easy reach.
TaskMenu - Brings Google Tasks to the macOS menu bar with a fast, native SwiftUI interface. It stays out of the Dock, opens as a compact popover, and keeps everyday task management close without pulling you out of your work.
Dropshit - Lets you temporarily stash files, text, and images with a quick shake gesture, then drag them back into any app later.
Swift Craft May 18-20th, United Kingdom (Folkestone) 🇬🇧
MAU Vegas May 19-21st, United States (Las Vegas) 🇺🇸
mDevCamp June 3-4th, Czech Republic (Prague) 🇨🇿
MacAdmins July 7-10th, United States (Pennsylvania) 🇺🇸
Swift Rockies July 22-23th, Canada (Calgary) 🇨🇦
iOSDevUK September 7-10th, United Kingdom (Aberystwyth) 🇬🇧
Swift Island September 7-11th, Netherlands (Texel) 🇳🇱
Next.app devcon October 7-9th, Germany (Berlin) 🇩🇪
SwiftLeeds October 12-14th, United Kingdom (Leeds) 🇬🇧
DevFest Hamburg October 16-17th, Germany (Hamburg) 🇩🇪
code.talks November 4-5th, Germany (Hamburg) 🇩🇪
Swiftsonic November 20-22nd, United States (Nashville) 🇺🇸
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