Inside iOS Dev

For their one year anniversary, Alex & Andrew let loose, have some beers and enjoy some free flowing chat. They talk podcasting, learning, architecture, & JavaScript! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Have an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Alex & Andrew do a quick recap of the WWDC 2018 Keynote & Platforms State of the Union. They get straight to what you need to know as a developer to be on top of all the new announcements and changes. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Have an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

We invite author & Ray Wenderlich contributor Marin Todorov to talk about the Realm database. Marin explains what it is and why you might use it as a persistence solution. He compares it to Core Data and helps give guidance on how to choose a persistence solution. He also goes into some of its benefits: simplified API, improved performance, cross platform usage, & automatic sync. Lastly, h...

Florian Kugler, co-founder of the popular objc.io, joins us to discuss his new book "App Architecture". We discuss the five architectures covered in the book: Model-View-Controller, Model-View-ViewModel + Coordinator, Model-View-Controller+ViewState, ModelAdapter-ViewBinder, and The Elm Architecture. We also touch on the VIPER architecture and why it wasn't included in the book. Finally,...

Basem Emara discusses his application of Clean Architecture on iOS. He talks the different components, data flow, dependencies, & more! https://iosmentor.io/clean-architecture-for-ios/ Buy Clean Architecture book

Best selling author Art Fedosejev joins us to discuss his new "Fun Driven Development" thesis and the problems it entails. What can we do to be more professional, responsible, and ethical software engineers? http://fundrivendevelopment.guide/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Interview? https://iosin...

Soroush Khanlou joins for a rapid fire style interview. He talks about the iOS dev community, app architecture, best books to read as a dev to level up, and more! Find Soroush at: https://fatalerror.fm/ and http://khanlou.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=in...

Guest Kyle Roucis talks about the power of using Sets in Swift for pattern matching. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Alex talks about some of the problems he had working on a codebase that shared its business logic in JavaScript. We also talk generally about sharing code across mobile platforms. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Alex explains how to use the Null Object Pattern to simplify your code (an alternative to optionals). Read a related article about Null Object design pattern here: https://m.smartcloud.io/swift-optionals-and-the-null-object-design-pattern-7578b7448edf Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Prepping for an iOS Interview? https://iosint...

Learn about the underlying mechanics of Auto Layout and the layout system of iOS in general. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Prepping for an interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

An overview of the indispensable Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Chapters 10 through 13. Learn how to write code that's simple, expressive, easy to read, easy to maintain, and elegant. Find Clean Code here: http://amzn.to/2Cd49HO Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Prepping for an interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-...

Alex explains why he thinks Singletons are evil. He gives concrete reasons why and then offers a better alternative. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Engineer job interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

What is Dependency Injection? Why is it useful? How can we use it? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Why is there so much confusion around design patterns and architectures? How can we gain better understanding of them? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Preparing for your next iOS Engineer job interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

We have a lively debate over the potential merits and downfalls of Javascript as a programming language and community. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Preparing for your next iOS engineer job interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Want to learn about backend development? http://codetales.io/

An overview of the indispensable Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Chapters 6 through 9. Learn how to write code that's simple, expressive, easy to read, easy to maintain, and elegant. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

We make a confession and discuss developing in Swift versus Objective-C Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

What you need to know about developing for the new iPhone X. https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/overview/iphone-x/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Guest Julian Fahrer joins us to discuss what iOS developers can learn from backend development & devops. Julian's screencasts website: http://codetales.io/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

We share our experience and what we learned at the try! Swift New York City 2017 conference. Including Matt Gallaghers redux-like modeling of view state, Tanner Nelson's server-side Swift using Vapor, Neem Serra's Map & FlatMap magic, and Paul Fenwick's talk on machine ethics & emerging technologies. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insi...

Starting in iOS 11, Apple is requiring all apps to use the new SKStoreReviewController to prompt users to review & rate your app. We discuss the details of how this new review prompt works as well as other changes to reviews and the App Store. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

An overview of the indispensable Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Learn how to write code that's simple, expressive, easy to read, easy to maintain, and elegant. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Alex talks about how he nailed his iOS Software Engineer interview process and got his dream job at ThoughtWorks. The book about interviews Alex wrote: https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

An iOS design / architecture talk. Andrew & Alex introduce and discuss view models. What are they? Should you use them? How do they help solve the malignant Massive View Controller problem in iOS? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com