Inside iOS Dev

Alex explains how overusing extensions and protocol extensions in Swift leads to unpredictable runtime bugs. 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 Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at hello@insideiosdev.com

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Alex interviews Rody Davis about Flutter, a cross platform framework for iOS and Android development. They also address cross platform development issues Dropbox experienced with their mobile apps. Dropbox drops mobile cross platform C++ Flutter Dropbox's cross platform C++ issues article Rody on Twitter Rody's website Rody's Github Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosintervi...

Recently, Dropbox published a blog illustrating the costs & overhead of using C++ to code share between iOS and Android. The author, Eyal Guthmann from Dropbox, joins us to elaborate more on the topic. Was the problem C++? Why couldn't Dropbox simply hire more C++ developers? Why not React Native or Flutter? Is cross platform mobile development simply not viable? Interested in C++ or mobile develo...

Alex talks about his first impressions working with VIPER architecture. He walks through each part of the architecture, compares it to RIBs, and talks about modularization. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at hello@insideiosdev.com

Alex and Andrew discuss the latest Dropbox engineering article that announced that Dropbox is dropping their support of cross platform mobile C++ code. Dropbox C++ drop article Running into problems with shared cross platform code in JavaScript is the episode where Alex talked about cross platform code shareability issues using Javascript Sunsetting React Native Airbnb article announcing that they...

Alex talks with Leo Dion about Server Side Swift and Vapor. Leo's twitter Leo's company Leo's Vapor getting started blog post http://learningswift.brightdigit.com/ https://www.empowerapps.show/ https://learningswift.brightdigit.com/vapor-swift-backend-review/ Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at h...

Alex and Andrew interview Shai Mishali about advantages of using RxSwift for async operations on iOS instead of Grand Central Dispatch (GCD). Shai's twitter Shai's contributions on Ray Wenderlich website RxSwift: Reactive Programming with Swift (raywenderlich.com book) Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Ema...

Andrew talks about the pressures & frustrations that often accompany the highs of big tech announcements like WWDC.

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Our first impressions after the first day of WWDC 2019. We go over Marzipan/Catalyst, Swift's new Combine framework, SwiftUI, and other bits that caught our attention. Andrew's AppDevCon conference talk WWDC 2019 Keynote WWDC 2019 State of The Union SwiftUI Combine Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email u...

Alex and Andrew explain a bit why they've been out. Then they both talk about the first conference talks they ever gave and what they learned. AppDevCon conference talk in Amsterdam iOS Coding Tips email list #ioscodingtips on Twitter #ioscodingtips on LinkedIn Twitter @InsideiOSDev hello@insideiosdev.com

Alex talks about what options you have implementing async work on iOS. He starts with the lowest level of abstraction GCD and goes all the way up to PromiseKit and RxSwift. GCD https://developer.apple.com/documentation/dispatch NSOperations https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/operation https://nshipster.com/nsoperation/ PromiseKit https://github.com/mxcl/PromiseKit RxSwift https:/...

Alex gives an overview of unit-testing mocks, stubs, and fakes and explains what is the difference between them. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Alex talks about working at Uber and what he's learned from their RIB architecture. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Alex & Andrew respond to a listener question about starting a career in software engineering. How to choose between a coding bootcamp and university? What should one learn to be a marketable software engineer? What's the best way to learn? What's the market like for mobile software engineers? And more! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.inside...

Alex has a change of mind on singletons after previously declaring them always "evil". Also, what's new in 2019 and what we have planned. You can find previous singletons episode here http://insideiosdev.com/dde8a34e Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewgui...

Andrew talks about his recent design struggle with trying to work both within and maintaining a Model-View-Presenter architecture in the context of pre-existing code. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://tw...

Alex answers a listener question. How does one design an app for scalability? Alex answers a question from a listener that just completed an iOS Engineer interview: How does one design an app for scalability? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=insi...

Andrew describes & discusses the various problems with view controllers. Find Paul Hudson (@twostraws) at https://www.hackingwithswift.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Andrew talks about the recent architectural refactoring work he did at Reddit. He explains how the iOS team moved from an MVC architecture to a Model View Presenter (MVP) architecture. He also talks about Texture -- an async layout framework for fast scrolling feeds. This episode was originally recorded March 2018. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://for...

We answer a listeners questions. What is the threat/benefit of React Native? What's happening to the job market because of React Native? How do you stay immune to the cultish force of the Javascript religion? What effect will WebAssembly have on web development? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Enginee...

Ray Wenderlich authors Kelvin Lau & Vincent Ngo come on the show to discuss their book "Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift". https://store.raywenderlich.com/products/data-structures-and-algorithms-in-swift https://www.raywenderlich.com/1108-join-the-swift-algorithm-club To enter our contest to for a chance to win a free copy of the book tweet what you like about our podcast. We...

We talk with acclaimed iOS & Swift blogger John Sundell about unit testing is. We start out with just unit testing is and then move into details: when & how to do unit testing, tdd, and more! Find John Sundell at https://www.swiftbysundell.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Have an iOS Engineer Interview? Learn how to...

We speak with David Kopec, professor & iOS developer consultant, about his book "Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift". What can you learn from solving classic CS problems such as search, constraint-satisfaction, graph problems and more? David gives a brief explanation of some of the interesting problems in the book such as K-Means clustering and Genetic algorithms. Use promo c...