Daniel Saidi

Can’t wait! 🤩

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🪐 NEW SPEAKER 🪐

We are super excited to confirm our next speaker as @danielsaidi.bsky.social 💥

Daniel is an indie developer that is building SDKs & apps for the  stack, using Swift, SwiftUI, and the Swift Package Manager.

We can't wait to welcome Daniel to SwiftLeeds this year!

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We need it, and we must do it.

Those are dangerously good!

This is great Axel! 👏

I made another Shortcut to get details about any app right from the App Store 🎁

🚀 Release date
🔁 Last update date
📲 Downloads last month (estimated)
🤑 Revenue last month (estimated)
⭐️ Total ratings worldwide
🆔 App ID

Link to the Shortcut and instructions below ⬇️

Yeah it’s crazy, I struggle to find a single benefit. Checkboxes are invisible because they lack a border, windows have different corner radii, previously expressive custom UI are reduced to the simplest SwiftUI picker, etc. I think Alan Dye has some owning up to do.

The new theme system is so good in Zenther

Can we talk about how horrible the Xcode's new Settings panel is, not to mention its theme window and the system font picker?

Fun days with Xcode 26 🫠

That’s awesome! I would love to have all my songs recorded but can’t even find the time to get the already recorded ones up on Spotify :)

Congrats! Did you use a specific mastering software?

Home KeyboardKit is a powerful SDK for creating custom keyboard extensions

I'm tweaking my company web design system for all company websites over time. The latest fix is to redesign some grids and tables to look like glass. It may not be Liquid Glass, but I'm pretty happy with it, especially when content scrolls under the sticky pricing tier header.
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Thank you Carlo! 🙌

Next time! 🙌

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Im heading to Japan tomorrow, for a 2+ week visit to Wakayama, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo. If you have anything that I should see and do, I’d love to hear it :)

Custom iOS Keyboard Extensions and Liquid Glass Apple’s new software design system Liquid Glass is soon here, and with it some big changes to how the keyboard looks. Let’s take a look at what’s coming and how KeyboardKit can help.

KeyboardKit 9.8 and its layout performance improvements will be released in mid-August. After that, KeyboardKit 9.9 will be released with brand new Liquid Glass adjustments for iOS 26.

You can read more about this here:

keyboardkit.com/blog/2025/07...

#liquidglass

Those gigabytes dwarf in comparison to the insane size of the system files 😀

I plan to only take iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26 with me when I go to Japan on Wednesday, but this seems problematic on my 500GB travel computer. 10GB left on device with basically only Xcode installed:

Won IndeHub hackathon finals in Bangalore!

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SwiftUIKit 6.0 is out! 🚀 This is a huge clean-up that removes many components that are extracted to separate packages. The future of this package will instead be to extend native types, to make #SwiftUI even more capable. You can read more about this in the release notes.

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Creating amazing loading animations with SF Symbols. In this post, we’ll take a look at how to use SF Symbols to easily create amazing loading animations.

New blog post! 📄 "Creating amazing loading animations with SF Symbols" shows how to use SF Symbols and the powerful symbols effect to create amazing loading animations for #SwiftUI, without a bunch of custom code.

danielsaidi.com/blog/2025/06...

I've added a way for KeyboardKit to redraw the keyboard when the keyboard type changes. The first attempt used the proxy's very brittle documentIdentifier property, which crashes if accessed at the wrong time. In the upcoming beta 2, this code has been scrapped and just checks the raw keyboard type.

BadgeIcon 1.2 is out! 🚀 This is a tiny Swift package for creating icons that look like the ones in Settings. This version adds 68 new predefined icons, bringing the total number of predefined icons to *118*!
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KeyboardKit 9.8 also adds new, improved layout builders for all 75 locales. Having this in place brings KeyboardKit 9 to a good place, after which KeyboardKit 10 will replace many complex services with value builders and view modifiers. Read more about this and the upcoming unified SDK on the blog.

To make KeyboardKit 9 as great as possible before jumping to 10.0, KeyboardKit 9.8 drastically simplifies how to manage and customize layouts, in a way that is faster, lighter and consumes less memory than before. You can read all about it on the KeyboardKit blog.

keyboardkit.com/blog/2025/07...

KeyboardKit 9.8 Beta The KeyboardKit 9.8 beta 1 is out! This version brings a huge set of improvements and changes to the layout engine, to make typing with KeyboardKit better than ever.

The KeyboardKit 9.8 beta 1 is out! 🚀 This update brings a huge set of improvements and changes to the layout engine, to make typing better than ever. This version also adds redrawing when the text field changes, new actions, callout improvements, and much, much more.
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iPadOS 26 beta 4 feels a lot better than beta 3. Very smooth and well balanced! Fingers crossed for iOS and macOS :)