#43 - Swift 4.2, Create ML, Siri Shortcuts

Last week was the week for Apple developers: WWDC week! Apple revealed a whole range of improvements, new APIs, and tools. The sessions are available here. There’s something for everyone.

It took little to no time to the open source community to ship libraries using the new goodies.

What’s new in Swift 4.2

Ole Begemann is back with a Playground showcasing all the new features introduced in Swift 4.2. A must-run to get up to speed with the changes.

Create ML Playgrounds

Create ML is one of the news of this year’s WWDC. A framework to train machine learning models using Swift and Playgrounds.

GitHub user krishkumar has put together a collection of Playgrounds showing how to train image and movie review sentiment classifiers.

AppCoda have also put togheter an image classifier demo with Create ML.

ShortcutsDemo

Siri Shortcuts are a powerful new feature in iOS 12 that allow your app to expose its functionality to Siri. This enables Siri to suggest your shortcut at relevant times based on various context

Alessio Roberto has put together a demo project showing how to set them up.

Other interesting projects

• SSSpinnerButton a collection of buttons with spinner animations to delight your users while waiting for your app to do its thing.
• Seaglass open source macOS client for Matrix an open standard for interoperable Instant Messaging and VoIP.