Recording the Simulator

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using Quicktime to screen record the preview or simulator to document my work here and in Github ReadMe’s, but thanks to this excellent short post by Sarun W, I now know it’s possible to do that directly from the simulator, including capturing gestures, and exporting to animated gifs!

How to upgrade XCode and Swift

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

With the September release of XCode 14 and Swift 5.7 it was time for my first update - I looked in “About” for an update link but there wasn’t one - so if you’re as dense as me, the tip is to head to the Mac App Store and have a look at the Updates page.

Your current XCode version can, of course be found in the XCode | About dialogue. Mine was on 13.4.1. There’s a couple of ways of finding the Swift version - If you’ve got an XCode project open, click on the .xcodeproj in the explorer,and have a look in Build Settings for Swift Compiler - Language for the major version.

Or for a bit more accuracy, try xcrun swift -version at the command line. I got a few errors, then the version 5.6.1

I won’t bang on about the changes for XCode or Swift since that’s already been done well elsewhere, and the Swift changes are mostly beyond my expertise level.

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Recording the Simulator

How to upgrade XCode and Swift