🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀
Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?
✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...
Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?
✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...
www.gesis.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
🚀 The GESIS AppKit is live! 🚀
Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?
✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...
Three years ago we started the project of providing "an App" for Social Scientists @gesis.org . Today, it is much more than that. It is a management system for mobile, intensive-longitudinal studies. Interested?
✅ Register here: www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit...
In the spirit of advocating for more native Mac Development, I wanted to share (early) my new app: Address Book.
It uses the Contacts API on Mac so it keeps everything in sync with your Contacts across your Apple devices — just a new UI for macOS. One that works.
Coming Soon. #AppKit #macOS
It uses the Contacts API on Mac so it keeps everything in sync with your Contacts across your Apple devices — just a new UI for macOS. One that works.
Coming Soon. #AppKit #macOS
September 23, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Current status: I'm tormenting ChatGPT forcing it to try to write AppKit code that animates an NSWindow and a view/layer inside it… so far AppKit is winning
May 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Current status: I'm tormenting ChatGPT forcing it to try to write AppKit code that animates an NSWindow and a view/layer inside it… so far AppKit is winning
This is probably something that iOS people knew all along, more likely never even realized was an issue. But I *just* figured out a better way to do multi-platform imports, after years of doing it the wrong way.
April 27, 2026 at 10:46 AM
This is probably something that iOS people knew all along, more likely never even realized was an issue. But I *just* figured out a better way to do multi-platform imports, after years of doing it the wrong way.
Looks like macOS 16 will have clipboard privacy protection. That's a good move!
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
AppKit updates | Apple Developer Documentation
Learn about important changes to AppKit.
developer.apple.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Looks like macOS 16 will have clipboard privacy protection. That's a good move!
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
developer.apple.com/documentatio...
This is like 99% SwiftUI - 1% AppKit
xogot.com/mac
I’ll soon blog about it. That lame ass discourse ruined my morning mood.
xogot.com/mac
I’ll soon blog about it. That lame ass discourse ruined my morning mood.
June 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
This is like 99% SwiftUI - 1% AppKit
xogot.com/mac
I’ll soon blog about it. That lame ass discourse ruined my morning mood.
xogot.com/mac
I’ll soon blog about it. That lame ass discourse ruined my morning mood.
Ohhhhhhh 👀👀👀
Proper Mac app for Bluesky! (works on Sequoia)
And looks very native, as far as I can tell (I think AppKit even?)
😍
Proper Mac app for Bluesky! (works on Sequoia)
And looks very native, as far as I can tell (I think AppKit even?)
😍
Excited to announce that Aeronaut is now live in the Mac App Store! 🎉
After two years of tinkering, polishing, and obsessing over the little things, it’s finally here!
If you’re looking for a Bluesky app designed and built for macOS, take a look…
apps.apple.com/us/app/aeronau…
After two years of tinkering, polishing, and obsessing over the little things, it’s finally here!
If you’re looking for a Bluesky app designed and built for macOS, take a look…
apps.apple.com/us/app/aeronau…
January 27, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Ohhhhhhh 👀👀👀
Proper Mac app for Bluesky! (works on Sequoia)
And looks very native, as far as I can tell (I think AppKit even?)
😍
Proper Mac app for Bluesky! (works on Sequoia)
And looks very native, as far as I can tell (I think AppKit even?)
😍
I made a state-driven Navigation system for macOS that is compatible with both SwiftUI and AppKit
May 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I made a state-driven Navigation system for macOS that is compatible with both SwiftUI and AppKit
My WWDC26 session just dropped: Use SwiftUI with AppKit & UIKit 💡
I walk through adopting SwiftUI in an existing app: Observation auto-updating your AppKit/UIKit views, embedding SwiftUI in your view hierarchy, bridging gesture recognizers, and SwiftUI scenes.
🔗developer.apple.com/videos/play...
I walk through adopting SwiftUI in an existing app: Observation auto-updating your AppKit/UIKit views, embedding SwiftUI in your view hierarchy, bridging gesture recognizers, and SwiftUI scenes.
🔗developer.apple.com/videos/play...
Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit - WWDC26 - Videos - Apple Developer
Discover how to incrementally adopt SwiftUI in your existing AppKit or UIKit app. We'll show you how to use the Observation framework to...
developer.apple.com
June 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
My WWDC26 session just dropped: Use SwiftUI with AppKit & UIKit 💡
I walk through adopting SwiftUI in an existing app: Observation auto-updating your AppKit/UIKit views, embedding SwiftUI in your view hierarchy, bridging gesture recognizers, and SwiftUI scenes.
🔗developer.apple.com/videos/play...
I walk through adopting SwiftUI in an existing app: Observation auto-updating your AppKit/UIKit views, embedding SwiftUI in your view hierarchy, bridging gesture recognizers, and SwiftUI scenes.
🔗developer.apple.com/videos/play...
🚀 I’ve open-sourced a small macOS tool I use to extract .icns files from apps, files, folders, disks, and other locations.
Built with SwiftUI + AppKit, it lets you preview icons and export them as .icns
github.com/ruiaurelian...
#macOS #SwiftUI #AppKit #OpenSource #IndieDev
Built with SwiftUI + AppKit, it lets you preview icons and export them as .icns
github.com/ruiaurelian...
#macOS #SwiftUI #AppKit #OpenSource #IndieDev
September 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🚀 I’ve open-sourced a small macOS tool I use to extract .icns files from apps, files, folders, disks, and other locations.
Built with SwiftUI + AppKit, it lets you preview icons and export them as .icns
github.com/ruiaurelian...
#macOS #SwiftUI #AppKit #OpenSource #IndieDev
Built with SwiftUI + AppKit, it lets you preview icons and export them as .icns
github.com/ruiaurelian...
#macOS #SwiftUI #AppKit #OpenSource #IndieDev
First Application Kit-drawn pixels on the screen.
A whole hell of a lot has to work for this to be here. Foundation, CoreGraphics, AppKit itself, to say nothing of the underlying X11R7 server and the various libraries I'm using.
A whole hell of a lot has to work for this to be here. Foundation, CoreGraphics, AppKit itself, to say nothing of the underlying X11R7 server and the various libraries I'm using.
September 25, 2026 at 10:22 AM
First Application Kit-drawn pixels on the screen.
A whole hell of a lot has to work for this to be here. Foundation, CoreGraphics, AppKit itself, to say nothing of the underlying X11R7 server and the various libraries I'm using.
A whole hell of a lot has to work for this to be here. Foundation, CoreGraphics, AppKit itself, to say nothing of the underlying X11R7 server and the various libraries I'm using.
I just released a new #Swift package - FontKit. 🚀 This is a tiny package that makes it super easy to define and use custom fonts in #SwiftUI, UIKit and AppKit. The first 0.1 is out, with a demo app and an embedded font that shows how to use the package.
github.com/danielsaidi/...
github.com/danielsaidi/...
GitHub - danielsaidi/FontKit: Easily handle custom fonts in SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit.
Easily handle custom fonts in SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit. - danielsaidi/FontKit
github.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I just released a new #Swift package - FontKit. 🚀 This is a tiny package that makes it super easy to define and use custom fonts in #SwiftUI, UIKit and AppKit. The first 0.1 is out, with a demo app and an embedded font that shows how to use the package.
github.com/danielsaidi/...
github.com/danielsaidi/...
Finally, AppKit has NSRefreshController
September 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Finally, AppKit has NSRefreshController
Making my way thought, wrapping Qt6 in a safe Swift library. The feel I'm going for is "AppKit but Qt" while making all of Qt's awesomeness available to Swift apps. Swift's C++ interop has been amazing
#Swift #Qt6 #LinuxDev #WindowsDev
#Swift #Qt6 #LinuxDev #WindowsDev
August 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Making my way thought, wrapping Qt6 in a safe Swift library. The feel I'm going for is "AppKit but Qt" while making all of Qt's awesomeness available to Swift apps. Swift's C++ interop has been amazing
#Swift #Qt6 #LinuxDev #WindowsDev
#Swift #Qt6 #LinuxDev #WindowsDev
One more reason to like @Observable: It isn't SwiftUI only. It works in AppKit and UIKit views too, so the same per property tracking spans all three frameworks.
Deeper dive in my WWDC26 talk, Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit:
🔗 developer.apple.com/videos/play...
Deeper dive in my WWDC26 talk, Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit:
🔗 developer.apple.com/videos/play...
Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit - WWDC26 - Videos - Apple Developer
Discover how to incrementally adopt SwiftUI in your existing AppKit or UIKit app. We'll show you how to use the Observation framework to...
developer.apple.com
June 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
One more reason to like @Observable: It isn't SwiftUI only. It works in AppKit and UIKit views too, so the same per property tracking spans all three frameworks.
Deeper dive in my WWDC26 talk, Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit:
🔗 developer.apple.com/videos/play...
Deeper dive in my WWDC26 talk, Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit:
🔗 developer.apple.com/videos/play...
AppKit's not dead yet! 💪
June 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
AppKit's not dead yet! 💪
Daqui pra frente viveremos numa pororoca desgraçada de aplicativos criados por pessoas sem a mínima ideia do que estão fazendo. Afinal, plataformas como Lovable ou appkit vivem justamente de vender esse sonho. Então, estejam prontos, muito prontos.
September 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Daqui pra frente viveremos numa pororoca desgraçada de aplicativos criados por pessoas sem a mínima ideia do que estão fazendo. Afinal, plataformas como Lovable ou appkit vivem justamente de vender esse sonho. Então, estejam prontos, muito prontos.
for standard AppKit and UIKit controls -- like a button or text field -- the application gets this for free by virtue of those things already having text content. for image views, the text has to be provided by the application.
July 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
for standard AppKit and UIKit controls -- like a button or text field -- the application gets this for free by virtue of those things already having text content. for image views, the text has to be provided by the application.
It's amazing how fantastic GPT is now at generating Swift / AppKit code and yet how absolutely shit it still is at generating images
April 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM
It's amazing how fantastic GPT is now at generating Swift / AppKit code and yet how absolutely shit it still is at generating images
I continue to struggle with making native MacOS apps. All abstractions leak but SwiftUI takes the crown.
SwiftUI seems to be the way forward, but bugs, and incompatibilities force you to learn the underlying AppKit framework SwiftUI attempts to abstract away.
SwiftUI seems to be the way forward, but bugs, and incompatibilities force you to learn the underlying AppKit framework SwiftUI attempts to abstract away.
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM
I continue to struggle with making native MacOS apps. All abstractions leak but SwiftUI takes the crown.
SwiftUI seems to be the way forward, but bugs, and incompatibilities force you to learn the underlying AppKit framework SwiftUI attempts to abstract away.
SwiftUI seems to be the way forward, but bugs, and incompatibilities force you to learn the underlying AppKit framework SwiftUI attempts to abstract away.
"It’s a real Mac app — written mostly in AppKit, supporting all the right UI idioms and platform integrations. It’s not just the best Bluesky client I’ve seen, for any platform, but maybe the best new Mac app I’ve seen in years, period. Certainly the one whose very existence has made me happiest" 🍎
Aeronaut 1.0
Link to: https://aeronautapp.com/
daringfireball.net
January 29, 2026 at 1:38 PM
"It’s a real Mac app — written mostly in AppKit, supporting all the right UI idioms and platform integrations. It’s not just the best Bluesky client I’ve seen, for any platform, but maybe the best new Mac app I’ve seen in years, period. Certainly the one whose very existence has made me happiest" 🍎
ICYMI, dropped a new article over on my blog...
This time, exploring how you can fill the gaps in Mac Catalyst by using native AppKit components, right in your iOS codebase, with UIKit's private _UINSView class.
sebvidal.com/blog/using-a...
This time, exploring how you can fill the gaps in Mac Catalyst by using native AppKit components, right in your iOS codebase, with UIKit's private _UINSView class.
sebvidal.com/blog/using-a...
Using AppKit in Your Mac Catalyst App
Fill the gaps in Mac Catalyst with Apple's private _UINSView.
sebvidal.com
November 30, 2024 at 9:06 AM
ICYMI, dropped a new article over on my blog...
This time, exploring how you can fill the gaps in Mac Catalyst by using native AppKit components, right in your iOS codebase, with UIKit's private _UINSView class.
sebvidal.com/blog/using-a...
This time, exploring how you can fill the gaps in Mac Catalyst by using native AppKit components, right in your iOS codebase, with UIKit's private _UINSView class.
sebvidal.com/blog/using-a...
#GESISAppKit #Smartphone #Erhebung #AmbulatoryAssessment #ExperienceSampling
Ran ans Handy: Das GESIS AppKit ermöglicht die Erstellung mobiler Umfragen mit komplexen, zeitbasierten Ausspielplänen und unterstützt damit die Durchführung intensiver Längsschnittstudien.
www.gesis.org/gesis-...
Ran ans Handy: Das GESIS AppKit ermöglicht die Erstellung mobiler Umfragen mit komplexen, zeitbasierten Ausspielplänen und unterstützt damit die Durchführung intensiver Längsschnittstudien.
www.gesis.org/gesis-...
March 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
#GESISAppKit #Smartphone #Erhebung #AmbulatoryAssessment #ExperienceSampling
Ran ans Handy: Das GESIS AppKit ermöglicht die Erstellung mobiler Umfragen mit komplexen, zeitbasierten Ausspielplänen und unterstützt damit die Durchführung intensiver Längsschnittstudien.
www.gesis.org/gesis-...
Ran ans Handy: Das GESIS AppKit ermöglicht die Erstellung mobiler Umfragen mit komplexen, zeitbasierten Ausspielplänen und unterstützt damit die Durchführung intensiver Längsschnittstudien.
www.gesis.org/gesis-...
August 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM