Sometimes, you know something exists (like Xcode Playgrounds) and how to use it, and yet fail to see the possibilities in terms of how you can integrate that thing with your regular workflow 🙂

The “Prototype with Xcode Playgrounds” session was such an experience for me 😛 I watched the session and immediately realized that there were so many ways that I could have used Xcode Playgrounds in the past to make my work easier!

Give it a watch, I’m certain you won’t be disappointed …

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10250/

#Apple #WWDC #WWDC2023 #XcodePlaygrounds #Prototyping

@f Can you use XCTest in a Playground (on iPad) yet?

@f glad to hear that! I bookmarked this in the developer app to watch soon.

@f this is a constant struggle for me with new tech. "That's a neat toy, but I have no real world use for it" even while other devs I looks up to are making great use of it (whatever "it" is) constantly.

@ratkins Haven’t tried that, I’m afraid 🙂 I rarely use an iPad and am mostly on my MBP. But will test this at some point once I switch to iOS 17 beta and let you know …

My guess is no since I don’t recall this being mentioned during WWDC and if it was possible, I’m fairly certain they would have mentioned it.

@mikenichols I’d be interested to hear what you think once you do 🙂 Personally, the more I see of new Xcode 15 features, the more I want to use it as my daily driver right now …

@f will do! I can’t wait to use the 1 click TestFlight deployment also.

@jmichalicek I get that 🙂 I often feel as if I should be using tech more effectively but can’t think of how. So, all this time I’ve been using Xcode Playgrounds for trying out little bits of code but never as part of a project to quickly try out views and stuff. So this session was a revelation to me.

It’s interesting (at least to me) how sometimes we just get stuck in a certain mental model and can’t get beyond that. So, I guess talking to other people is important since you can learn a lot from them and how they use tech — I’ve been working remotely for like 18 years now and so don’t get to talk to a lot of folk 🙂

@mikenichols I think I missed that one — so now you’ve made me add another item to my watch list 😛