Google's announcement that Flutter 3.44 will replace CocoaPods with Swift Package Manager as the default dependency manager marks a turning point for the Apple ecosystem. The transition affects not just Flutter but also React Native, KMP, and Unity workflows, creating significant CI/CD migration challenges for enterprise teams. The newsletter also covers: using npm to install Swift scripts as global commands, a WatchConnectivity replacement using BLE/HTTP/SSE that achieves 99% reliability, SwiftUI's remaining gaps on macOS, background app refresh in SwiftUI, avoiding Swift 6 concurrency runtime crashes, a Swift-native GPU numerical computing library for Apple Silicon, and a SwiftUI preview engine for AI/custom toolchain workflows.
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