Alex Lenkei

Implemented a much better filter picker for the election results list 👀 When you select one filter, the available options of the other filters will be reduced to only include those that have elections, so you can't create a combination of filters that leads to no elections.

We have animating, live election results :)

For election nerds, it will be a busy day. I'll be focusing on testing and debugging the live election results feature in @beinformed.app. I *could* set up some dummy data but it's always best to test with the real thing. The only problem is having to actually wait around for the elections to happen

Just add a navigation title as normal and a blank string as a ToolbarItem in the .principal placement, which will cover/hide the nav title.

If you ever want to hide the navigation bar title (but not the entire navigation bar) and still want to have a nav title that is shown when users long press on the back button, you can do that.

It's not elegant by any means and may even be horrible UX. Let me know if you have thoughts!

So the API I use to pull upcoming elections does not distinguish between different House elections in the same state. Of course, to fetch information about a particular district's election (candidates, campaign finance info), I need the user to manually select a district, hence the solution below.

My app pulls a small amount of content from Wikipedia using the MediaWiki API, and I wonder if this could replace that.

Meet WebKit for SwiftUI - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer Discover how you can use WebKit to effortlessly integrate web content into your SwiftUI apps. Learn how to load and display web content,...

WebKit for SwiftUI seems great and I'd love to explore it more, but it also seems daunting for those who don't know web dev or javascript. I really wish Apple had released the sample code for this WWDC video
developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

TIL the @.Observable macro doesn't trigger updates for equatable properties starting with iOS 26. But for prior releases, we have to manually check equality for the object properties to improve our app performances.

Thank you for the tip Steven!

I've brought the UI and logic of the Mail app's filter picker to Informed. The advantages of this UI are that you can easily turn the filter "off" while still saving your filter selections and you can easily see what those options are. #SwiftUI

Made a few minor adjustments to the sheet/picker style. Full code: gist.github.com/alexl9412/54...

And now I've duplicated the filtering logic. Looks pretty good overall! My only annoyance is that when changing the filter option from "All" to another option (or vice versa), the first time the filter button expands/contracts, it animates, but not on subsequent times.

I've improved this a little bit. The animation and animation speed don't quite match the one in Mail, but this works for now:

Here's the Mail example:

Trying to learn the new Liquid Glass and Toolbar APIs by re-creating the filter picker in Mail, but I'm not quite getting the animations/interactions right. Is this a ToolbarItemGroup? A GlassEffectContainer? I haven't seen any other attempts online.

A screenshot of the search feature for the unreleased iOS app, Informed.

Hey! 👋 It's been awhile. 4 months ago, I set my little app project aside because I was feeling burnt out, discouraged, and a little overwhelmed by WWDC25. But I've been poking my head back in Xcode for the past few days, updating things for Liquid Glass, fixing bugs, & working on the search feature!

That's helpful! It looks like this change effects segmented pickers but not those created with the .searchScopes modifier, indicating that the Music app uses the former. I tried placing the picker with ToolbarItem(placement: .principal) and others, but the picker disappears when search is activated.

Here's a better illustration of the problem. I've been trying to update my app's search feature for iOS 26 but can't get the search scopes/segmented picker to match the appearance and behavior of the one in the Music app. Any ideas?

A screenshot of the iOS Music app highlighting the segmented picker allowing users to search either Apple Music or their music library.

A screenshot of the iOS beta app Informed highlighting the search scopes allowing users to search either locally or the FEC database.

How did Apple increase the size/padding around this segmented picker in the iOS 26 Music app? When using either search scopes or a regular segmented picker, I can’t figure out how to increase the height around the text

YouTube video by FUTO Andreas Kling's Keynote Presentation on the Ladybird Browser

I think it would be a good foil to your interview with Josh/the Browser Company and the new focus on AI browsers, and it would be a more developer-focused conversation rather than a corporation- or user-focused one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YM7...

Ladybird Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, backed by a non-profit.

@davidimel.com I'd like to pitch a topic for the podcast: a segment on the Ladybird browser and interview with founder Andreas Kling. Ladybird is an open-source, independent browser currently in development and years away from public release. So why talk about it?

ladybird.org

Has anyone using the Project Indigo camera app figured out how to separate the raw file from the jpg on iOS/iPadOS without using Lightroom?

The icon design for the beta version of Informed using Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language

The icon design for the beta version of Informed using Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language

The icon design for the beta version of Informed using Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language

Mock ups for light, dark, and clear:

*Liquid Glass, not Liquid Design

The current icon design for the beta version of Informed

The new icon design for the beta version of Informed using Apple’s new Icon Composer app and Liquid Glass design language

Playing around a bit with the new Icon Composer app for Informed’s beta icon. On the left is the current design.

An macOS icon for the Arc browser

I don’t recall exactly where I got the Arc (rip) icon below, whether it was official or third party, but in terms of design, it would fit right in with iOS 26’s Liquid Design.

Downloading the iPadOS 26 beta now. It’s 11.41 GB on my iPad Pro M4

Give me that developer beta! What did you think of the #WWDC25 keynote?