The iDeveloper Podcast

This week the boys share their thoughts on Apple's 2021 WWDC Keynote and State of the Union, especially Xcode Cloud, SharePlay, and their expectations for the days ahead. They also reminisce on WWDC's long gone by and the speculations of what WWDC could become in the future.

This week the boys talk this years WWDC and how its changed over the course of the pandemic. John talks his continued work on video and animation with AVComposition and his newfound love for double.random(in:). Scotty talks the ever-developing nature of client work and when it's best to move on. Also some results on last weeks question of user onboarding. UserOnboard | A frequently-updated compend...

A week of object success stories with John sharing his recent praise and developed conversations of last week's release of his Dynamic Type success. Also talks about his find of a great music isolation app with a great first-run experience. Scotty shares his recent commit successes on a new project from an existing client and keeping the balance of working on multiple projects simultaneously. Mois...

John shares his latest adventures into AVMutableComposition and also his latest ship which contains his recent Dynamic Type work. Scotty talks his not-so-much-a-failure of his recent work on CoreData and sync within MoneyWell, namely, when is the best time to persist the data? Dynamic Type for the Netflix iOS app’s Detail Pages

This week the boys talks the progression of technologies using MemoryMiner as a yardstick. John talks the difficulty in finding the right feature set for software for use by human beings. Scotty talks his recent frustrations with debugging CloudKit and his deep dive into the iDeveloper archives by listening back to Episode 1 and how much things have changed vs. the similarities.

After finding an additional fractional listener from down the back of the couch thanks to the new Apple AirTags, this week the boys talk the nature of social media companies tracking and privacy policies. John talks his recent dynamic type BugBash and the world of high speed text rendering, namely the problems with widows and orphans. And the boys talk the culture of consuming content, from Netfli...

John shares his recent hold up with a failed screenshot test with some dynamic type on a certain canvas with some certain languages. Also talks the surprise joy of SwiftUI Buttons. Scotty talks his recent client work on a more complex Mac app after a 6 month hiatus and the joy of finding a few helpful comments. Scotty also attempts to liken software development to electrician. Hacking With Swift:...

This week the boys discuss the recently announced Spring Apple Event. John shares his successes with the debug tool mentioned last week and some accessibility improvements being made off the back of it. Scotty shares his more successful week of working with test data on some recent client work and his work in graphic contexts and the complexity of drawing to different outputs. Monty Python skit: W...

John shares his week of working on a card game based app for a friend, the noticed differences between SwiftUI and UIKit, and some developer decisions that have cropped up. Also his upcoming day of accessibility bug fixing. Scotty shares his week of growing incompetence, starting with the ever more difficult task of recording a podcast, down to his work with NSBitmapImageRep. I Think Therefore I Q...

With reflections on their WWDC premonitions from last week against the latest announcement and rumours, John shares some surprise praise for the fractional listener and his recent troubles with passing Objective-C to JavaScript. Scotty talks of a Command Line Tool he's been working on this week and the lack of resources that comes bundled with that.

This week the boys try and get ahead of the curve and discuss what they want to see at WWDC2021. John shares his continued dive into the mire of AVMutableComposition and the patchwork of available documentation. Scotty talks his unintentional tech news blackout and the best ways to prevent and deal with burnout.   It Could Be Worse | YouTube Debugging AVComposition

This week the boys touch on the various ways communicating errors through the user back to the developer. John shares his successes with AVMutableCompostiton from the last few weeks work around his HackDay project. Scotty talks the recent decisions being made with MoneyWell iOS, and the possibly soon to be expansion of the company. Splice | An amazing video editor for iOS Learning AV Foundation Th...

This week John has been experimenting with Speech-To-Text with some work relating to his recent HackDay project and shares his thoughts of Apples Voice Recognition API. Scotty shares his distinctly average week of some client work mixed with some MoneyWell error squashing.   Are We The Baddies? | YouTube

This week John announces the results of his most recent HackDay and the lessons learnt from HackDays long past, also talks the use of PDF / SVG for Netflix badges. Scotty talks his recent work with reworking the old MoneyWell codebase and his search for views, also a possibly unknown power tool for GitHub. Month Python - "Not Dead Yet" | YouTube One second to read GitHub code with VS Code | GitHub...

This week the boys talk the progression of languages in parallel with hardware. John hints at some possible near future success with his most recent HackDay and likens coding in Swift with landing on Mars. Scotty talks his steadily growing pile of dead MacBooks, using XcodeGen in MoneyWell and some work with fastlane including some issues with multi-factor authentication. Die Toten Hosen, predeces...

This week John talks some design issues with Dynamic Type being used within Tab Bars and some problem solving using SwiftUI. Also a bug within Full Keyboard Access. Scotty talks his recent work on MoneyWell and re-implementing sync into the existing codebase and the decisions that need to made on what sync platform to use.    Kaleidoscope   Magnification View: This is used to help people with low...

This week Scotty shares his first experience with Apple's new M1 chip with a client's 2021 MacBook Air, how this compares with last years DTK and his 2018 Intel MacBook Pro, as well as some quirks that are still to be ironed out. John share his work this week with A/B tests on VoiceOver, the connection between what's visibly happening on screen through VoiceOver. As well as the difficulty of integ...

This week the boys continue their discussion of business within the software world and how Scotty has been trying to put business decisions ahead of technical ones, with mixed success. Scotty also talks about updating the MoneyWell website and some decisions being made for the app itself, especially regarding sync possibilities.   Paul Hawken | Wikipedia Growing a Business | Good Reads Brad Cox, I...

This week the boys share their goals for 2021 and talk the difficulty of making better technical vs. better business decisions. John talks the first Netflix release of the year which includes dynamic text support for casting menus also the milestone of over 200 million Netflix users. Scotty again shares his fairly strong thoughts on KVO and how it's been used within the existing MoneyWell codebase...

Back with the first show of 2021 and amongst the current political quagmires on both sides of the Atlantic John talks Apple's latest Racial Equity & Justice Initiative, Netflix's new show Arsène Lupin, and finally getting some decent internet. Scotty talks taking on more contract work and the hopeful future benefits that could be brought to MoneyWell. Also shares some frustration with certain...

With that time of year again already and some tales of childhood french pastries, the boys talk their end of year wrap-up mode. John talks his jubilations with the release of dynamic type support and the response from the accessibility community. Also the use of AttributedString with VoiceOver. Scotty talks the trials of having a simple email address and the tribulations of having a to pick a new...

After a break over Thanksgiving, the boys are back with an update on how remote working is developing the work environment and the pro's and con's of Auto Layout. John also shares more tales of travel, some Thanksgiving thoughts. While Scotty admits how hard working on MoneyWell part time is. British Movie Villains Run John Run Virtual Volunteer | OFF DUTY

As well as talking build processes and toolchains, Scotty talks the universal MoneyWell 3.1.1 release and the feedback on the 3.1 release, as well as touching on the woes of his 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard. John talks the anatomy of the iOS Netflix transport controls and a re-creation in SwiftUI. Anatomy of the Netflix Forward Button <

This week the boys review the latest Apple Event and share their thoughts on the first Apple Silicon machines. John also talks his recent work leading up to 'the quiet period', his ongoing work with languages and translations, and the release of Croatian. Scotty talks the release of MoneyWell 3.1, including the much anticipated full Dark Mode support as well as compatibility for Big Sur. The Cover...

This week the boys share their thoughts on the recent US election race, with John showing off his democracy sausage. John also talks his recent work with link previews and getting them to work with multiple languages. Scotty talks his recent work with getting MoneyWell Big Sur ready, as well as some Core Graphics work. New York Times Op-Ed Democracy Sausage Christopher P.Atlan | Duck Hunt <