Swift World This Week(08.14–08.20)

Machine Learning

GitHub — hollance/CoreMLHelpers: Types and functions that make it a little easier to work with Core ML in Swift.

• convert images to CVPixelBuffer objects and back
• MLMultiArray to image conversion
• a more Swift-friendly version of MLMultiArray
• handy Array functions to get top-5 predictions, argmax, and so on
• non-maximum suppression for bounding boxes

Machine Learning for iOS

Machine learning and computer vision open new kind of applications for iOS, tvOS and macOS devices. Smarter, more user-friendly and convenient applications are already starting to appear on mobile devices.

AR

GitHub — bjarnel/arkit-smb-homage: An implementation of a Super Mario Bros-like game in augmented reality with ARKit and SceneKit.

Big AR: The Current State of Augmented Reality — Kevin Mise — Medium

Big AR is a series of blog posts that look to uncover the current state of AR and use current and forecasted trends to get a glimpse of where our AR future may head.

Big AR: Gaming, Marketing, and You — Kevin Mise — Medium

Big AR: Augmented Reality and Marketing — Kevin Mise — Medium

Big AR: Android vs iOS — Hacker Noon

Big AR: The Future of Augmented Reality — Hacker Noon

Swift 5

swift-evolution Swift 5: start your engines

I am not going to repeat all of that information here, but I wanted to highlight a few important things: ABI Stability, other focus areas (including laying the groundwork for concurrency) and changes to the language evolution process.

Article

Replacing legacy code using Swift protocols — Swift by Sundell

Rather than suffering through all of the stress, risk and pain of completely rewriting a huge system from scratch, let’s take a look at a technique that I usually use when dealing with legacy code — that lets you replace a problematic system class by class, rather than having to do it all at once.

Code

GitHub — schibsted/layout: A declarative UI framework for iOS

Layout is a framework for implementing iOS user interfaces using runtime-evaluated expressions for layout and (optionally) XML template files. It is intended as a more-or-less drop-in replacement for Nibs and Storyboards, but offers a number of advantages.

GitHub — radianttap/Swift-Network: Simple building blocks for any network / API wrappers you may need to write in Swift

Community

GitHub — carolanitz/Awesome-iOS-Twitter: A curated list of awesome iOS Twitter accounts

A curated list of awesome iOS Twitter accounts worth following inspired by Awesome iOS The list is divided into the categories People, Conferences and Blogs.

Random

The Tech Lead’s New Project Checklist — In Simple Terms

my notes from a session on what a tech lead needs to do and know when arriving on a new project.

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