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Swift Playgrounds is the best and easiest way to learn how to code. And with Swift Playgrounds 4, you have the tools to build iPhone and iPad apps right on iPad and submit them directly to App Store Connect, providing a new way for you to easily create apps and share them with the world. Code is immediately reflected in the live preview as you build apps, and you can run your apps full screen to test them out. A new open project format based on Swift packages can be opened and edited in Swift Playgrounds for iPad, as well as within Xcode on Mac, offering you even more versatility to develop apps across iPad and Mac. Learn more

Give it a whirl if you’ve got an iPad on hand.

iOS 15.2 RC Release Date ― December 7, 2021 Build Number ― 19C56 Darwin Kernel Version ― 21.2.0: Sun Nov 28 20:43:39 PST 2021; root:xnu-8019.62.2~1 iOS 15.2 adds Apple Music Voice Plan, a new subscription tier that provides access to music using Siri. This update also includes the App Privacy...

I was pretty stoked when Chris shared a way to "View Source" on mobile. Sure, it's not the same as a built-in feature but it allows iOS users like myself

A key planner of the Jan. 6 rally near the White House insisted the burner phones be purchased with cash, a source says

What is a best in class iOS app? How are they built, and can we quantify what makes them great?

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We’re making some major updates to the Twitter Developer Platform.

Twitter announced the release of a new API on Monday that will make it easier for developers to build on the platform's infrastructure.

They can take my TweetDeck from my cold dead hands

For the first time in my life, I felt the urge to comment on Reddit.

Centering things in CSS is the poster child of CSS complaining. Why does it have to be so hard? They jeer. I think the issue isn't that it's difficult to

Operating under the Neauoire moniker, Devine is a polymath working on a series of experimental tools and applications while sailing around the world and …

The Macbook Pro M1 is the software development laptop of choice yet I love my iPad considerably more. I'm all in with my thin client for hipsters. Here’s what I’ve learned over the months and how my baremetal homelab in the sky is setup.

Posted by Sameer Samat, Vice President, Product Management When we started Android and Google Play more than a decade ago, we made a b...

Update: Although Google has not commented on the lack of AMP links in its search results, Danny Sullivan has tweeted that their disappearance from iOS and iPadOS 15 is a bug that Google is working to fix. Earlier today, developer Jeff Johnson published a story, noting that AMP links have seemingly vanished from Safari on

Footnotes now supported in Markdown fields

Limor @adafruit Fried shares her journey from a side hustle to the wildly successful Adafruit, where millions of makers find the tools they need to bring their ideas to life.

A new promo message for Microsoft Teams broke the Windows desktop shell and the taskbar for Windows 11 Insider users. Why can cloud services break Windows PCs?

Today, we are thrilled to announce Windows 11 will start to become available on October 5, 2021. On this day, the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs that come pre-loaded with Windows 11 will start to

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Personally, I try to keep my development environment as convenient to use as possible and with the advent of BeyondCorp-style zero trust, more internal services are thankfully available without a VPN required. This makes it easy to access tooling from your mobile device and other places but it can also mean the line between work and personal blurs a little bit. A lot of my custom work-related configuration has been deprecated (utilities for wrangling VPNs and proxies) and I basically don’t maintain anything more than what was already open sourced.

This game design duo is getting paid to live on a boat.

My interview with Jordi Bruin (@jordibruin) about all things iOS and other stuff

In this hands-on video, we walkthrough what's new in iOS 15 developer beta 4 and iPadOS 15 developer beta 4. New features include support for the new MagSafe Battery Pack, several new Safari tweaks, and more. Full post: https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/27/hands-on-ios-15-beta-4-changes-and-features-more-safari-tweaks-video/ Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/c/9to5mac?sub_confirmation=1 FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links: https://9to5mac.com/about/#affiliate FCPX plugins by MotionVFX: https://motionvfx.sjv.io/c/1977902/760654/10011 My favorite gear: Desktop: Mac mini with Apple M1 Chip - https://bhpho.to/3nzNPKQ Keyboard: Keychron K2 - https://amzn.to/3sTs3m5 Laptop: Macbook Air with Apple M1 Chip - https://bhpho.to/3gKN2FA Camera: Sony Alpha 7S III - https://bhpho.to/2R2dWOm Microphone: Shure SM7B - https://bhpho.to/3f1Rk7x Drone: DJI Air 2S - https://bhpho.to/3xDolkr Video editing software: Final Cut Pro X - https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/ Follow us: http://twitter.com/9to5Mac/ http://instagram.com/9to5Mac/ http://twitter.com/JeffBenjam/ http://instagram.com/JeffBenjam/ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:14 Official support for the MagSafe Battery Pack 1:17 Updated Camera glyph on Lock Screen 1:41 Updated Control Center Note shortcut icon 2:19 Share Focus Status toggle for individual contacts 2:37 New animated Smart Rotate and Widget Suggestions icons 3:18 New Return to Home Screen action for Shortcuts 4:09 New icon for Notifications in Settings 4:29 New toggle for disabling notification when using Screen Sharing or Mirroring 4:54 Rounded edges in App Store account page 5:08 Updated visual lookup UI in Photos app 5:43 Sharable Memories 6:00 Reload / stop button displayed 6:25 Share button in tab bar replaces ellipses button 6:53 Long press on URL bar provides Show Bookmarks option 7:15 Quickly invoke Reader mode 7:36 Invoke Reader mode from tab overview 7:57 New extra large Podcasts widget on iPad 8:36 New preference section in Safari settings to switch between tab bar UI #iOS15 #iPadOS15 #iosbeta

Copilot is pitched as a helpful aid to developers. But some programmers object to the blind copying of blocks of code used to train the algorithm.

Today at the What's next for Windows — developer event, we'll show you the next era of Windows and how we are embracing Windows == open platform. This means everyone has open access to run the widest range of apps on Windows, enabling all developer

We’re exploring endpoints on the new v2 Twitter API to enable creation and consumption of Lists.