Jetpack Compose Brings Performance Improvements, Better Tooling Integration, and Updates Material 3

At its Google I/O conference, Google has announced a new iteration of its Jetpack Compose UI toolkit for Android. Among its many improvements, Jetpack Compose has now better performance, extended support within Android Studio, a new Material 3 library, and more.

JetBrains Composes Multiplatform for iOS Reaches Alpha

After adding support for desktop apps and the Web, JetBrains multiplatform declarative UI toolkit now runs on iOS in alpha.

ETTrace is an Open-Source Profiler for iOS Aiming to Simplify Performance Optimization

Recently open-sourced by Emerge Tools, maker of several analysis tools for iOS apps, ETTrace aims to simplify iOS performance profiling by providing intuitive visualizations and straightforward operation.

GitHub Announces Code Scanning and Security Advisory Support for Swift

GitHub has launched code scanning support for Swift in beta and announced it will include Swift security advisories in its Advisory Database to extend the capabilities of its Dependabot vulnerability monitor.

Apple Introduces SwiftData, a SwiftUI-Ready Core Data Replacement

At WWDC 2023, Apple introduced SwiftData, a new framework that provides a declarative, Swift-first API enabling to work with data persistence in iOS apps. SwiftData can easily make a Swift class into a persistent model and is especially suited to be used with SwiftUI.