74: “Let’s build a camera app”, a conversation with the Halide and Spectre team
On this special episode, John is joined by the entire team behind the award-winning apps Halide and Spectre, Apple’s 2019 App of the Year. Ben, Sebastiaan and Rebecca share their stories of how these...
View Article75: “The Swift package ecosystem”, with special guests Dave Verwer and Sven...
Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt join John to talk about their newly launched Swift Package Index, and what the overall state of Swift’s package ecosystem currently is. Also, dependency management,...
View Article76: “A huge year for SwiftUI”, a WWDC20 special with Josh Shaffer and Eliza...
Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block from Apple join John to talk about what’s new in SwiftUI, how Xcode Previews work under the hood, the new home screen widget system, Apple’s internal process of adopting...
View Article77: “Adopting new system features”, with special guest Jordan Morgan
Jordan Morgan joins John to discuss various strategies for adopting new system features and APIs, how to keep up with the rapid changes to iOS, macOS and Apple’s other platforms, and how to allocate...
View Article78: “What’s new in Swift 5.3”, with special guest JP Simard
JP Simard returns to the show to discuss Swift 5.3’s main new features and improvements, and what those changes might tell us about the current state of Swift and its evolution process.SponsorNoted:...
View Article79: “All about UICollectionView”, with special guest Ben Scheirman
Ben Scheirman, creator of NSScreencast, joins John on an episode all about UICollectionView. How have UICollectionView’s features evolved over time, and how are modern APIs like compositional layouts...
View Article80: “Lists and loops”, with special guest Nick Lockwood
Nick Lockwood returns to the show to go on a deep dive into data structures and algorithms, what some of the pros and cons of writing high-performance code in Swift are, and how all of that relates to...
View Article81: “How big iOS teams typically operate”, with special guest Carola Nitz
Carola Nitz, iOS developer at Netflix, joins John to discuss how larger iOS development teams typically operate, and how smaller teams can prepare their code bases for future growth. Also, organizing...
View Article82: “Translating designs into code”, with special guest Jordan Singer
Jordan Singer joins John to discuss various approaches of turning designs into fully implemented UIs, how to manage things like mock data during the development process, and when to turn a given view...
View Article83: “Adventure into widgets”, with Scriptable developer Simon Støvring
Simon Støvring, the developer behind several powerful iOS productivity apps, including Scriptable, joins John on an episode all about the new home screen widgets introduced in iOS 14. Topics include...
View Article84: “Key paths, functions and closures”, with special guest Vincent Pradeilles
Vincent Pradeilles joins John to discuss various ways to use Swift language features like key paths and closures, how they relate to patterns typically used within functional programming, and when and...
View Article85: “Cross-Apple platform development”, with special guest James Thomson
James Thomson, creator of PCalc, returns to the show to discuss how developers can bring their apps to multiple Apple platforms using technologies like Catalyst and SwiftUI, and how and when it can be...
View Article86: “Map is a design pattern”, with special guest Daniel Steinberg
Daniel Steinberg joins John to discuss how various functional programming patterns can be adopted in Swift, and how many of those patterns can be found in both the standard library and in frameworks...
View Article87: “The SwiftUI layout system”, with special guest Chris Eidhof
Chris Eidhof returns to the show to go on a deep dive into the SwiftUI layout system. What are the different phases involved in determining a given view’s layout, how do concepts like layout priorities...
View Article88: “The 2020 Holiday Special”
On this special episode of the show, John wraps up the 2020 season by revisiting some of the key themes and topics that were discussed on the show during the year.SponsorsBitrise: Fast, stable and...
View Article89: “Framework and SDK development”, with special guest Ellen Shapiro
Ellen Shapiro returns to the show to discuss framework and SDK development, and how that often requires a somewhat different process from app development. Also, API design, GraphQL, using the standard...
View Article90: “The essence of app architecture”, with special guest Matt Gallagher
Matt Gallagher, creator of Cocoa with Love, returns to the show to discuss how the introduction of SwiftUI and Combine has impacted how apps are architected on Apple’s platforms, and what sort of...
View Article91: “Is SwiftUI ready for production?”, with special guest David Smith
David Smith, creator of apps like Widgetsmith, returns to the show to discuss whether SwiftUI is currently capable and stable enough to build production-level apps, and what sort of things that can be...
View Article92: “All of our wildest Swift dreams”, with special guest Kaitlin Mahar
Kaitlin Mahar, lead engineer at MongoDB and member of the Swift Server Work Group, joins John to discuss the current state of server-side Swift, designing APIs for server-side libraries, and Swift’s...
View Article93: “Combine and Core Data”, with special guest Donny Wals
Donny Wals, book author and iOS developer at Disney Streaming Services, joins John to give practical tips on Combine and Core Data. How to manage and test increasingly complex Combine pipelines, and...
View Article94: “A Mac-like Mac app”, with special guest Benedikt Terhechte
Benedikt Terhechte returns to the show to discuss the pros and cons of using technologies like Catalyst and SwiftUI to build Mac apps, and also to share tips and tricks on how to use AppKit for use...
View Article95: “Concurrency orchestration”, with special guest Brent Simmons
Brent Simmons returns to the show to discuss multi-threading and concurrency, and how to make good use of tools like Grand Central Dispatch. Also, building NetNewsWire in the open, the current state of...
View Article96: “Gesture-driven animations”, with special guest Adam Bell
Adam Bell returns to the show to talk about animations, both how to make great use of the built-in animation tools that the iOS SDK ships with, but also how to drive custom, gesture-driven animation...
View Article97: “Anything can happen during WWDC”, with special guest Ish ShaBazz
Ish ShaBazz returns to the show for a special pre-WWDC episode about what new APIs and developer tools that Apple might announce at this year’s edition of the conference. What’s in store for Swift and...
View Article98: “An entire spectrum of apps”, with special guest Sean Allen
Sean Allen returns to the show to talk about using the MVVM design pattern within SwiftUI-based apps, building a course around MapKit and CloudKit, how to approach all of the new material that WWDC has...
View Article99: “Structured concurrency”, with special guest Doug Gregor
Doug Gregor from Apple joins John to discuss Swift 5.5’s new concurrency features in great detail. How do features like async/await and actors work under the hood, and how were those concepts adapted...
View Article100: “A tower of capabilities”, with special guest Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner returns to the show to discuss Swift’s new concurrency features, the ongoing evolution of the language, and the importance of both language and API design. This, and much more, on this...
View Article101: “Cross-platform SwiftUI”, with special guest Malin Sundberg
Malin Sundberg joins John to talk about her experiences of using SwiftUI to build and ship the time-tracking and invoicing app Orbit on most of Apple’s platforms, and what sort of things that can be...
View Article102: “WWDC21, two months later”, with special guest Jordan Morgan
Jordan Morgan returns to the show to discuss some of the key new APIs and frameworks that were announced at WWDC21, and how they can be integrated into the apps that we build, now that about two months...
View Article103: “What’s new in Swift 5.5”, with special guest Antoine van der Lee
Antoine van der Lee, creator of SwiftLee, joins John to discuss the new language features that are being introduced as part of Swift 5.5 — from the brand new concurrency system, to convenience features...
View Article104: “The magic of Augmented Reality”, with special guest Roxana Jula
Roxana Jula joins John to discuss Apple’s various tools, frameworks, and APIs for building Augmented Reality experiences. How to get started building AR-based apps, what’s the current state of AR on...
View Article105: “Building various kinds of editors”, with special guest Marcin Krzyzanowski
Marcin Krzyzanowski returns to the show to talk about building editors for Swift code, backend-driven user interfaces, and more. Also, the challenges of working with text-based data, the pros and cons...
View Article106: “Opportunities for optimization”, with special guest Christian Selig
Christian Selig returns to the show to talk about how he used the new Safari extension system on iOS to build Amplosion and Achoo, the pros and cons of open source, and how developers can utilize other...
View Article107: “UIKit in 2021”, with special guest Ben Scheirman
Ben Scheirman returns to the show to talk about modern UIKit-based app development, how UIKit has evolved over the past few years, and how its API design and usage has been influenced by the...
View Article108: “Concurrency and Swift-DocC”, with special guest Marin Todorov
Marin Todorov returns to the podcast to discuss Swift’s new concurrency system and its newly announced backward compatibility, his new book about that topic, and his work on Apple’s open source...
View Article109: “Code maintenance”, with special guest Nick Lockwood
Nick Lockwood joins John for a discussion about maintaining Swift code bases — from open source projects, to ones worked on by teams of various sizes. Also, the design of ShapeScript, using async/await...
View Article110: “Concurrency beyond app development”, with special guest Tim Condon
Tim Condon joins John to discuss how both client and server-side Swift developers could utilize the new built-in concurrency system, as well as how distributed actors and other upcoming language...
View Article111: “Custom rendering”, with special guest James Thomson
James Thomson returns to the show to discuss the various technologies that enable us to render custom UIs on Apple’s platforms. From rendering views using Core Graphics and Core Animation, to building...
View Article112: “The 2021 Season Finale”
To wrap up the 2021 season of the show, John revisits some of the key themes and topics that were discussed both on the show itself, and within the Swift community in general, throughout the...
View Article113: “Where is Swift headed in 2022?”, with special guest JP Simard
On this 2022 season premiere, JP Simard returns to the show to discuss what’s next for Swift in 2022, and what kinds of improvements and new features that might be coming to the language during the...
View Article114: “Accessibility on Apple’s platforms”, with special guest Sommer Panage
Sommer Panage returns to the show to discuss Apple’s various accessibility APIs and tools, how to incorporate accessibility support into a team’s overall development workflow, and what it was like...
View Article115: “A framework and an app”, with special guest Simon Støvring
Simon Støvring returns to the show to talk about how he built his new text editor Runestone, how to effectively manage an app’s settings, performance tuning, and implementing an app’s core logic as a...
View Article116: “The evolution of SwiftUI”, with special guest Chris Eidhof
Chris Eidhof returns to the podcast to talk about how SwiftUI has evolved since its initial release, to share several key learnings from using it over the past few years, and to discuss concepts like...
View Article117: “Swift 5.7, generics, and the road to Swift 6”, with special guest Ben...
Ben Cohen, manager of the Swift team at Apple, joins John on this WWDC22 special to discuss Swift 5.7, how generics have been made more powerful and easy to use, and how the language is expected to...
View Article118: “What’s new in SwiftUI in iOS 16?”, with special guest Natalia Panferova
Natalia Panferova joins John to discuss some of the key new features that are coming to SwiftUI and UIKit in iOS 16, and to talk about her experience working on SwiftUI at Apple.SponsorsNordVPN: Get an...
View Article119: “The role of system design”, with special guest Gui Rambo
Gui Rambo returns to the show to talk about the role and importance of system design when building apps and open source tools, and how common app architectures and design patterns can be augmented with...
View Article120: “Freelancing and WWDC22 highlights”, with special guest Donny Wals
Donny Wals returns to the show to talk about being an iOS developer freelancer, and to discuss some of the key new APIs, Swift language features, and frameworks that were introduced at...
View Article121: “Responsive and smooth UIs”, with special guest Adam Bell
Adam Bell returns to the podcast to discuss different techniques and approaches for optimizing UI code, and how to utilize tools like animations in order to build iOS apps that feel fast and...
View Article122: “Swift concurrency in practice”, with special guest Ben Scheirman
Ben Scheirman returns to the show to discuss how Swift’s built-in concurrency features, such as async/await and tasks, can be used in practice when building apps for Apple’s platforms.SponsorsEssential...
View Article123: “The evolution of Swift”, with special guest Nick Lockwood
On this final episode of 2022, Nick Lockwood returns to the show to discuss the overall evolution of Swift and its ecosystem of tools and libraries. How has Swift changed since its original...
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