Introducing HandySwift 4.0

Investing time in Open Source again: Complete revamp of HandySwift with vastly improved documentation and lots of added handy features extracted from my apps. Read on to learn which helpers I use most often!

It’s been a while since I last did open-source work. I’ve been focusing on shipping new apps lately to make sure I can continue my Indie career long-term. After launching 6 apps within 3 months, I thought it’s about time to share the most reused parts of code. I already have an open-source library for that: HandySwift.

But it’s been more than 2 years since I made a new release. Of course, I was adding some functionality over time to the main branch so I could easily reuse them across my apps. But undocumented features that aren't part of a new release can be considered "internal" even if the APIs themselves are marked public.

So I took the time in the last few days to clean up all the code, making sure everything is consistent with the latest additions to Swift, removing unused code, adding @available attributes for renames (so Xcode can provide fix-its), and documenting a bunch of new APIs. I even designed an entirely new logo!