mastodon 4.7.3iOS developer. I press keys in intricate patterns to make screens of pocket computers behave in peculiar ways. Girl dad. I tweet in 🇬🇧 and 🇸🇪.
I’ve been putting off migrating my Combine stuff to AsyncStream, simply because I know how the Combine stuff works (and it works well), but I thought I would start now.
I’m about to replace a CurrentValueSubject having multiple downstream subscribers with an AsyncStream. Am I missing something obvious, or is this difficult with AsyncStreams?
The app I have been working on as a solo developer for the past 2½ years has recently been featured in the App Stores of South America, Southeast Asia, and now Canada! Woo!
Is it just me, or has the quality in Swift/Xcode/Simulator had a terrible streak lately?
PSA: There’s seems to be a regression in the Swift 6.3. compiler, causing crashes when running optimized code on device.
I stumbled upon it while testing this week’s app update, reverted to building with Xcode 26.3 for now.
Links:
https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/issues/87481
https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/issues/15974
Whisper these words to an iOS developer in their sleep and they’ll start having nightmares:
"SwiftUI, UIViewControllerRepresentable, safe area, UINavigationController, contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior, UIScrollView”
As a solo developer it can be hard to justify taking the time to deep dive into a bug report, but often times I feel like it’s still worth it. If just one user reported the bug, how many users experienced it without reporting it?
Even if I don’t manage to fix the bug, maybe I realize that I need more logging to fix it in the future, or I learn something which will help me fix it the next time a similar issue appears.
Setting contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior = .never fixes the tap issue, but it also puts the table view content under the top safe area (under the navbar). So now I’m looking into implementing this manually instead. Sigh!
It seems like I finally found a working solution after a lot of back and forth with Codex. It just gave me different solutions that were broken in one way or another, before I eventually gave up and came up with a solution for myself (yay! AI! 😒).
Ugh, my app has been stuck in App Review for over a week now because the reviewer can’t find the Delete Account feature, even though it’s included in ‘Notes for App Review’, *and* I’ve replied to their two rejections telling them where to find this feature in the app.
@Cyberbeni@mastodon.art Of course, you are right! Initially I, somewhat naïvely, thought those two systems were more similar than what they are.
The sentiment around Combine tends to be that it’s stagnant, soon-to-be (or even de facto) deprecated, and that one should move away from it ASAP. But maybe that’s not completely right, if it’s successor seemingly doesn’t support all the same use cases.