Inside iOS Dev

In this episode we have legendary Robert Uncle Bob Martin come over to talk about Clean Code, professionalism, and courage. We cover: - the impact of Clean Code on businesses' ability to change software and make money - management pushback on applying Clean Code practices and how to handle it - how managers get to the truth and how developers get to the truth - professionalism, courage to take ris...

Sandeep and Alex talk to Aaina Jain and Muralidharan Kathiresan about interviewing in current layoffs prone market, interview stages and tips to be more successful in each. Aaina's medium: https://medium.com/@aainajain Murali:  https://unknowndefault.com/ https://topmate.io/murali_k https://www.linkedin.com/in/muralidharankathiresan/ Prepping for a system design interview? Check out Alex's iOS Sys...

In this episode Alex and Sandeep react to WWDC 2022 Platform State of The Union. This is our very raw, unresearched reaction/opinion on what we heard on latest WWDC changes for iOS development. Some things are just emotions and unfiltered opinions, some are things we already looked into. We'll be doing deep dives in other videos into some of the stuff we covered that we're not sure or don't know m...

Alex and Sandeep share 10 iOS development tips that you can add to your knowledge base in less than 10 minutes for a better development experience.   Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/inside...

In this episode Sandeep and Alex showcase how mocks can be used in production code to substitute upcoming unfinished or unreleased backend changes. They use dependency injection and Liskov Substitution Principle to inject a service object implementation that uses local hardcoded data instead of fetching it from the network. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview...

Alex and Sandeep introduce Swift Sourcery, a code generation tool to automatically create mock implementations for interfaces in your code. Sourcery on github: https://github.com/krzysztofzablocki/Sourcery    Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview   Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosi...

In this episode Sandeep and Alex refactor a class with a large initializer into something easier to use. This is part one of this series. Sample code was taken from Fred’s tweet: https://twitter.com/frederickohen/status/1413595709471875072 Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Sign up for Alex's upcoming vi...

RIBs Resources: - [Original RIB repository]( https://github.com/uber/RIBs ) - [Uber RIB wiki]( https://github.com/uber/RIBs/wiki ) - General video: [Uber's new mobile architecture that scales to hundreds of engineers by Tuomas Artman]( https://youtube.com/watch?v=FfwZSk6VRVY ) - Video 1: [Architecture rewrite]( https://youtube.com/watch?v=bB9e7ZYVYCo ) - Video 2: [Deep Scope Hierarchies]( https://...

Alex and Sandeep talk to Michael DeGothsier about challenges developers and designers face working with each other and what approaches and perspectives they might take to improve collaboration. Sandeep's twitter: https://twitter.com/sandeepCool77 New Inside iOS Dev YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/InsideiOSDev Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: ht...

Alex and Sandeep talk to Jeff Gilbert, the author of VIPER architecture, about evolving understanding of VIPER, complex VIPER apps and compare different way to understand and implement VIPER on projects of all sizes. VIPER Architecture Diagram from the web: https://1drv.ms/u/s! AneU_VTSiGUE5Rvln8cBdVj0Ztja?e=IWt1hn VIPER Architecture Diagram from its author Jeff Gilbert: https://1drv.ms/b/s! AneU_...

In this episode I walk you through how to create an extension on Optional String type to default nil strings to an empty string. This little shortcut can greatly reduce the amount of ifelsing and if let unwrapping on optional strings in your Swift codebase. This episode's video screencast: https://youtu.be/qzuFvUVuH9U This episode's audio podcast: https://insideiosdev.com/episodes/swift-optional-s...

I'm transitioning to Youtube! Don't worry, the podcast is not over :) I'll be making more and more screencast style videos instead of just audio podcast format. I'll still be having guest over and have conversations with them about the code and I'll be cross posting screencast episodes on the podcast as well.   This new direction will allow me to explain the concepts and showcase the code examples...

Alex talks to Sandeep Aggarwal about Builder design pattern. They talk about use cases where the pattern is most applicable and how the implementation they made turned out. Sandeep's Twitter https://twitter.com/sandeepCool77 Screencast covering Builder design pattern implementation in Swift can be found here https://youtu.be/EhT-sMo9gJs The article used to research on Builder Design Pattern: https...

Alex talks about unexpected bugs he encountered with the new iOS release and how replacing a 3rd party library with a built-in Apple implementation is not always the silver bullet. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture...

Alex talks about unexpected intricacies and complexities he encountered trying to determine if a given view controller is visible trying to refresh data every time the user sees it. This seems like an overkill but it is more complex then you'd expect. Table of states and viewDidAppear/Foreground notification calls: https://1drv.ms/u/s! AneU_VTSiGUEh2kmJVH376QmUG79?e=X13rSQ Sign up for Alex's upcom...

Alex gives an introduction to unit-testing on iOS. He talks about what unit-testing is, how unit-tests are structured, and best practices on organizing your test code. He also touches upon mocking/stubbing and testing side effects as well. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Sign up for Alex's upcoming vi...

Daniel Hall and Alex talk about protected visibility modifier in objective oriented languages and how they wish it was added to Swift language. They talk about reasons for why it is needed and what workarounds you could use to achieve semi-similar result. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Sign up for Al...

Alex talks about why he’s been missing in action and haven’t published any podcast episodes in a while. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlist Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? htt...

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Alex talks to Daniel Hall about SwiftUI data observation, Environment, EnvironmentObject, ObservableObject, and State. Daniel is an iOS architect at Wayfair. Environment EnvironmentObject ObservableObject State Daniel Hall on Twitter @_danielhall Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Sign up for Alex's upco...

Alex continues to cover his article iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020. In this episode he covers questions: What is MVC? What do you know about singletons? Where would you use one and where would you not? What’s different between delegate and KVO? Links: iOS Interview Questions for Senior Developers in 2020 article Alex's book The iOS Interview Guide Systems Design Interview Co...

Alex talks about an article he recently published - "iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020" He covers first 3 questions from the article: What are the main features and advantages or disadvantages of Swift? What is an iOS application and where does your code fit into it? How is memory management handled in iOS? Links: iOS Interview Questions for Senior Developers in 2020 Article Al...

Alex talks about iOS system design interview, what to expect, what's important to focus on and what complexity a potential e-commerce application might have. The iOS System Design Interview Video Course Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlist Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Conn...

Alex talks to Jeff Gilbert about VIPER architecture, how it came to be and how this architecture helps scale iOS codebases. Jeff is the author of VIPER. This episode sponsor is healr.io Jeff's twitter @heyjeffg Architecting iOS Apps with VIPER (objc.io) https://literati.com/ Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlist Need to...

Alex interviews Leo Dion about his recent article Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift. They talk about async work on iOS, options developers had previously (from low level to high), and then discuss how new Apple frameworks Swift Nio and Combine helps solve asynchronous tasks on iOS. Unfortunately the chat transcript for this call was lost and some of the links didn't make it into...