81: “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...
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