| It’s a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. Sure, as a dev, there’s plenty to do and test and update, but there’s also heaps I get for free, especially when following Apple’s “best practices.” A simple example was a year ago when Apple tweaked some UI elements to look sleeker and changed default styles (e.g., lists, pickers, etc.). My SwiftUI app and other SwiftUI apps compiled against the then-current iOS SDK immediately showed the new UI elements when run on the latest iOS beta. Didn’t even require me to recompile. Stuff like that is elegant and can only be done when the libraries are included in the OS. The flip side is, of course, that if you, for some reason, have a particular thing in mind and you don’t take precautions to lock it down in your code, it’ll stop looking that way when changes are made in the next iOS. But I guess that’s what beta testing is for, and I’ve yet to come across a freebie that I didn’t like, but I’ll concede that it’ll depend from dev to dev. |