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Dactyl is a development platform that enables building native apps by providing a cross-platform SwiftUI renderer, using Wasm for efficient web previews and dynamic linking for seamless updates.

The article demonstrates a method for building SwiftUI iOS applications without a MacBook by using the Devin AI agent and Namespace's cloud Devboxes, enabling development from any browser-based device.

The author advocates for building native user interfaces over terminal user interfaces, demonstrating several AI-assisted apps created with minimal coding effort.

A senior developer's deep-dive critique of SwiftUI seven years after its release, arguing that it remains a perpetual beta with performance issues, layout unpredictability, and poor backward compatibility, comparing it unfavorably to UIKit.

Imagin Raw is a lightweight, open-source macOS app for browsing and organizing RAW photos, offering a faster, more efficient alternative to Adobe Bridge with features like XMP sidecar support, real-time file monitoring, and SD card ingest.

The article provides an update on SwiftUI improvements from WWDC 27 for building macOS apps, covering new APIs for selected states, drag and drop, and keyboard shortcuts.

A developer shares a workflow using AI to generate a complete, shippable travel app in SwiftUI from a single prompt, emphasizing design quality over commoditized app building.

Davit is a free, open-source native macOS app built with SwiftUI that provides a UI for Apple's container platform on Apple silicon, allowing users to run Linux containers without Docker Desktop.

OpenAI's Codex now includes a Build iOS Apps plugin that allows developers to view and test iOS apps in-app, open SwiftUI previews, and hot reload edits without leaving the environment.

Describes a workflow combining FireVibe for AI-generated design and native code generation, then Claude Code for building backend logic, enabling rapid iOS app development without hand-coding UI.

Ember is a native iOS Hacker News reader built with SwiftUI, emphasizing accessibility and a personalized onboarding experience. It features threaded comments, full-text search, offline saves, and is open-source under the MIT license.

MLX-LoRA-Studio is a native macOS app for fine-tuning LLMs on Apple Silicon, offering a user-friendly interface and support for various training algorithms including SFT, DPO, and QAT. It is fully open-source and allows local, private fine-tuning without cloud dependency.

The article recounts the author's experience building a macOS app entirely in SwiftUI, discussing the challenges and limitations in achieving a native Mac feel, such as selection states and inactive window behavior, concluding that SwiftUI on the Mac is not yet fully mature for 'Mac-assed' apps.

A veteran macOS/iOS developer recounts the struggle of implementing a Markdown-supporting chat UI using Apple's native frameworks (SwiftUI, AppKit, TextKit) and ultimately finds that web-based technologies like Electron offer a more practical solution for rich text rendering.

Codex now supports SwiftUI previews and hot reload via a new Build iOS Apps plugin, allowing developers to view and test iOS apps within the in-app browser.