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Team Australia is seeking sponsors to support the team at the European Cybersecurity Challenge in Germany this October. This is a great opportunity for international brand exposure, and for orgs to show that they value the next gen of Australia's cybersecurity workforce.

Our players were selected using Team Oceania's annual online qualifiers, and are hackers of a high calibre. See our sponsorship prospectus for more details: ecsc.oceaniacc.com/attachments/...

I've recently been searching around for open source SwiftUI apps to port to non-Apple platforms using SwiftCrossUI. Mostly as an exercise to discover the needs of real world apps, but also to bring existing macOS apps to more platforms! I've begun by porting ZenTime (an exam study timer)

SwiftCrossUI's Android support is quickly catching up with its iOS support, and it's becoming possible to build genuinely useful UIs for all major platforms with SCUI. If you know a software company or app dev firm that might be interested in experimenting with SwiftCrossUI, please hook me up!

moreSwift just joined Open Source Collective 🎉 If you've ever considered sponsoring the development of SwiftCrossUI or Swift Bundler, there's never been a better time! opencollective.com/moreswift

Windows apps built with SwiftCrossUI are now 200mb smaller! 🎉 SwiftPM's static linking support has recently improved on Windows, allowing me to merge swift-winui and all of its dependencies into a single monorepo with static linking. Static linking lets the linker drop a lot of unused code.

Mia Koring (a frequent SwiftCrossUI contributor) just released KeyringAccess, essentially KeychainAccess for Linux! Packages like KeyringAccess help to reduce the barrier for porting macOS apps to Linux github.com/amethystsoft...

SwiftCrossUI v0.6.0 is out now. This release brings a ton of Android feature parity improvements thanks to Beberka, and Gradient support thanks to Mia Koring! This release also includes the new DocC tutorials that Kaleb Ascevich created from our existing how-to guides. github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Kaleb Ascevich recently converted SwiftCrossUI's quick start documentation and platform-specific setup guides into DocC tutorials, with screenshots and all! github.com/moreSwift/sw...

I've recently merged some big AppBackend protocol changes into SwiftCrossUI. Kaleb Ascevich, who first contributed to SCUI earlier this year, refactored the 2000-line protocol into about 3 dozen smaller protocols, roughly separating the API surface by feature.

SwiftCrossUI's AndroidBackend has been hanging for a few hundred milliseconds after each view update, so Beberka collected a flame graph to investigate. It turns out, Android's RelativeLayout view measures each child twice per measurement pass, leading to exponential time complexity when nested!

Worked on implementing basic drag and drop for SwiftCrossUI today, and it's coming along well! But there are still quite a few edge cases to iron out. Content types are hard to pin down, and abstracting over 5 different platforms makes things rather tedious.

SwiftCrossUI v0.5.0 is out now, with a very basic Android backend 👀 Using the Android backend requires using the main branch of Swift Bundler (which supports compiling Swift apps to Android APKs and managing Android devices/emulators). github.com/moreSwift/sw...

SwiftCrossUI v0.3.0 brings a few SwiftUI feature parity improvements, some bug fixes, and perhaps most notably for users, a huge amount of documentation improvements by Kaleb Ascevich. github.com/moreSwift/sw...

Swift Bundler can now automatically locate compatible Swift Android SDK + Swift toolchain pairs on the user's behalf. It also supports automatically installing and launching apps on Android devices and emulators.

This is all in the as-of-yet unmerged Android support PR: github.com/moreSwift/sw...

The Ladybird browser project has inspired me to begin making regular SwiftCrossUI development update videos. The first one is up on YouTube now and covers the last two months of SwiftCrossUI development. Let me know what you think! youtu.be/HgRO7eIHkyE

One of SwiftCrossUI’s amazing contributors, Mia Koring, recently presented a lightning talk about SwiftCrossUI at the Swift Pre-FOSDEM Community Event. Go check out the recording on YouTube if you missed it! youtu.be/EC9qVCYBVyk?...