Under the Radar

206: Pivoting Your App 09.12.2020 29:44 ↓

The tricky balance of making big changes to your app to better serve your current market without upsetting your initial customers.

205: We Got a Raise 25.11.2020 29:41 ↓

How the M1 Macs are game-changers for developers, and our thoughts on the lower fees from the App Store Small Business Program.

204: Adopting SwiftUI 09.11.2020 29:45 ↓

The continued challenges of modernizing Overcast with Swift and SwiftUI, and deciding whether to rewrite Objective-C components in Swift.

203: Modernizing Overcast 28.10.2020 29:32 ↓

Refactoring and rewriting the foundations of a 6-year-old Objective-C codebase using Swift and modern APIs.

202: The Calm After The Storm 14.10.2020 29:40 ↓

Settling into a baseline, leaving no room to be undercut, and where Widgetsmith goes from here.

201: Widgetsmith 29.09.2020 29:48 ↓

Dave's app is number one in the App Store! We explore the mind-bending scale and perspective of such a defining moment in an indie developer's career.

200: Time Flies 16.09.2020 29:43 ↓

What Apple's event and iOS 14's timing means for us.

199: Spending Dan Riccio’s 2020 Battery Surplus 02.09.2020 29:52 ↓

Our second-annual wishlist for how we hope this fall's Apple hardware spends the efficiency gains from another year of technological progress.

198: Store Wars 20.08.2020 29:48 ↓

How Epic vs. Apple might affect developers like us.

197: iOS 14 Privacy Disclosures 06.08.2020 29:50 ↓

The new App Store privacy disclosures and tracking-permission prompt in iOS 14.

196: Not-So-Secret Plans 21.07.2020 29:50 ↓

What we're working on so far this summer, and why we're not keeping it secret.

195: Apple's Grand Vision of the Future 08.07.2020 29:43 ↓

Adapting to the continued consolidation of Apple's platforms and frameworks.

194: WWDC 2020 24.06.2020 29:46 ↓

How the online-only format of WWDC 2020 is working out in practice, and how quickly we plan to adopt the new APIs.

193: Unproductivity 10.06.2020 29:48 ↓

Putting mental health above productivity during challenging times.

192: Backporting 27.05.2020 29:43 ↓

Using compatibility shims and abstractions to gain some of the newest APIs' benefits on previous OS versions.

191: Self-Imposed Constraints 13.05.2020 29:37 ↓

Imposing arbitrary limits on yourself to produce better projects.

190: Custom Fonts 29.04.2020 29:16 ↓

The risks and rewards of using custom fonts, and how to implement them in a modern app.

189: Watchsmith 15.04.2020 29:49 ↓

The launch of David's new app that pushes the boundaries of watchOS and finally makes our smartwatch faces actually smart.

188: watchOS Business Prospects 02.04.2020 29:39 ↓

The business side of Apple Watch app development in 2020.

187: Uncertain Times 18.03.2020 29:48 ↓

Business decisions for app developers during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

186: Replacing WWDC 04.03.2020 29:56 ↓

Considering how Apple could replace and expand the roles filled by WWDC if it's canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.

185: Advanced Math 19.02.2020 29:48 ↓

How we tackle the occasional need for more advanced math skills than what we actually have.

184: The Past and Future of the iPad 05.02.2020 29:25 ↓

Looking back at the launch of the iPad, and what its present and future hold, from an app-development and business perspective.

183: Compatibility Contrast 22.01.2020 29:41 ↓

As Marco discovers the value of staying with the old, David plows headfirst into the new.

182: Ambitions, Goals, and Themes 08.01.2020 29:51 ↓

Making plans, setting goals, and setting guidelines for decision-making — and, taking a page from our friends at Cortex, our chosen themes for 2020.