Apple Treats

Apple Treats team meets up again in undisclosed location in San Francisco to share their hopes, wishes, expectations and predictions for WWDC26. From better Liquid Glass and Siri to better Xcode Cloud and more AI tools. We'll revisit these predictions after the WWDC. P.S. Sorry for the noise. We'll do better next time. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPA...

Apple Treats discusses latest news and dives deeper into agentic coding future. Another in-person episode – a good tradition. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mastodon.social/@Deniska - Vladimir Burdukov: lead software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/chippcheg, https://mastodon.social/@chip...

Apple Treats discusses how apps communicate with accessories and other devices – Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC and all in between. Podcast host: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mastodon.social/@Deniska Podcast guest: - Tatyana Chunikhina, Senior iOS Developer at Quartett Mobile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-chunikhina-69b...

In this first ever in-person episode which was recorded somewhere in San Francisco, we discussed all the interesting things announced on 'Awe dropping' special event, and also some of the implications of upcoming iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, visionOS 26 and other updates. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mast...

Apple Treats finally returns with new episode – we're talking about CarPlay from the developer perspective. Podcast host: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mastodon.social/@Deniska Podcast guest: - Tatyana Chunikhina, Senior iOS Developer at Quartett Mobile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanya-chunikhina-69b884139/ myAudi...

Apple Treats returns with new kind of the episode – monthly updates. Or bi-monthly. Depends. Nevertheless, here are some news for Apple developers happened in 2025 so far. Podcast host: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mastodon.social/@Deniska Daily source of mobile news: https://appletreats.substack.com Don't forget t...

Apple Treats reviews 2024 – Apple Intelligence, Apple Vision Pro, Mac mini and a little bit of other stuff. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mastodon.social/@Deniska - Vladimir Burdukov: lead software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/chippcheg, https://mastodon.social/@chippcheg Daily source...

WWDC24 is here. Apple Treats goes through OS updates, Swift features and, of course, Apple Intelligence! Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mastodon.social/@Deniska - Vladimir Burdukov: lead software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/chippcheg, https://mastodon.social/@chippcheg Daily source of...

Finally! Apple Treats reviews Vision Pro. What's it like to work with Vision Pro? What are development challenges? And just general impressions of all the features, capabilities and limitations. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mastodon.social/@Deniska - Vladimir Burdukov: lead software engineer at EPAM...

Together with Svetlana Shardakova we talk about her experience at Apple Developer Academy in Naples. And.. there is a small tease for our next episode :) The Apple Developer Academy is a partnership between the University of Napoli Federico II and Apple. It is aimed at curious and open-minded learners from all around the world and from a wide range of backgrounds, every kind of different education...

Season finale. Podcast team discusses all the news and updates for Apple developers happened in 2023. New devices, new frameworks, new regulations. And almost no predictions for 2024. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mastodon.social/@Deniska - Vladimir Burdukov: lead software engineer at EPAM Systems, ht...

It's been a long time, we get it. Finally, Apple hosts their regular annual event. New devices, new things to talk about. Let's go through the announcements and also discuss everything happened this summer. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska, https://mastodon.social/@Deniska - Vladimir Burdukov: lead software engin...

We're yet processing everything we've seen and heard at WWDC23. This was a truly packed event. And now we have to learn new thing – spatial computing. What it is, what it is for and many other questions. We're also reflecting on other announcements made at WWDC – new watchOS design language, SwiftData, SwiftUI observables, Swift macros and many other big and small changes across Apple platforms. P...

WWDC23 is just around the corner. Apple Treats team hopes that there will be some new hype. XR headset? Maybe. New Swift features – definitely. Something else – for sure. We're playing prediction games – what are we actually expecting from WWDC this year. We'll revise our predictions in the next episode. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, http...

The world is going crazy about generative machine learning models. Now it's not just funny profile pictures, but also chat bots. Or answering machines. Or even junior developers. Let's check what's this hype is all about. What are these large language models are capable of? How could they affect mobile apps? And what is the future of software development? And, yes, we're about our expectations for...

Apple Treats is back! Finally! And we have another special episode devoted to International Women's Day! We invited Natalia Penferova (from Nil Coalescing) to talk about development, books and IT community and general. This was really nice and inspiring talk with some interesting insights on how to get recognized by big companies or how to actually start to write a book. :) Useful links: Natalia P...

2022 is almost over. Podcast team gathered together in a festive mood to look into the year from developer's perspective. What devices captured our attention, events, new features?.. And also, couple of the recent news which definitely needed our attention. Happy holidays everybody! And see you next year! Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: chief software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.c...

We decided to talk about current news. Fears of recession, new beta versions, Stage Manager in production, SwiftUI on Mac. Not much news to report, but still a lot to discuss. And we’ve even tried Continuity Camera for the first time at podcast. Check out, how it went. Useful links: A companion for SwiftUI: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-companion-for-swiftui/id1485436674?mt=12 Podcast hosts: - D...

We're back with couple of recent updates. New iPads are weird. Especially, the pencil. Macros are coming to Swift. iPhones are dominating in US and iOS 16 adoption is also good. And all other news important to developers. Useful links: - A Possible Vision for Macros in Swift: https://gist.github.com/DougGregor/4f3ba5f4eadac474ae62eae836328b71 - Forum discussion: https://forums.swift.org/t/a-possib...

Apple announced new Apple Watches, AirPods and iPhones on 'Far Out.' special event. Podcast team goes through all of the announcements and reflects on possible signs of new features during WWDC22. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: chief software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska - Vladimir Burdukov: lead engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/chippcheg - Svetlana Shard...

It's August. We're all waiting for the big releases to happen next months. And the only thing we could do today is go through current news and updates for Apple developers. Market reports, Swift community news, interesting features in new beta versions, and even some good news in Apple Pay. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: chief software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska - V...

Apple Treats returns to regular programming with episode on WWDC22. Yes... Better late than never. We're discussing our own personal favorite announcements of WWDC22. Kind of clunky episode, though. :) Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: chief software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska - Vladimir Burdukov: lead engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/chippcheg - Svetlana...

We're back! With great new co-host! Probably, with some new podcast sections. And with more fun :) Let's review, what happened in the winter for Apple developers. And there is a lot, actually. Unlisted app distribution, new releases and betas, South Korea and Netherlands and much more. Podcast hosts: - Danis Tazetdinov: chief software engineer at EPAM Systems, https://twitter.com/edeniska - Vladim...

For the finishing episode of the season we decided to look into next year. For the New Year some developers might want to see new Swift IDE to be released. And so... we've invited Marcin Krzyżanowski to discuss Swift Studio. And we even show it real life (you might want to watch this episode too). Was it hard to build new IDE? What is the main purpose of Swift Studio? How does recent VSCode Swift...

Apple publishes new OS releases just before the show. So these are no longer betas. Meanwhile, Apple partners with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to teach kids how to code. And, yes, we're talking privacy. Again. This and all other Apple news for these two weeks. Your daily source of mobile news: https://mobilepeople.news Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCDfOCyV1Cc