101: “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...
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