Swift by Sundell

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83: “Adventure into widgets”, with Scriptable developer Simon Støvring Oct 08, 2020

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Simon Støvring, the developer behind several powerful iOS productivity apps, including Scriptable, joins John on an episode all about the new home screen widgets introduced in iOS 14. Topics include how to create and update dynamic widgets, managing and sharing data between an app and its widgets, and much more.

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82: “Translating designs into code”, with special guest Jordan Singer Sep 24, 2020

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Jordan Singer joins John to discuss various approaches of turning designs into fully implemented UIs, how to manage things like mock data during the development process, and when to turn a given view into a reusable component. Also, the story behind the Airport app and Jordan’s recent SwiftUI experiments.

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81: “How big iOS teams typically operate”, with special guest Carola Nitz Sep 10, 2020

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Carola Nitz, iOS developer at Netflix, joins John to discuss how larger iOS development teams typically operate, and how smaller teams can prepare their code bases for future growth. Also, organizing remote conferences, balancing feature development with bug fixing, and much more.

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80: “Lists and loops”, with special guest Nick Lockwood Aug 28, 2020

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Nick Lockwood returns to the show to go on a deep dive into data structures and algorithms, what some of the pros and cons of writing high-performance code in Swift are, and how all of that relates to parallelization and performance.

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79: “All about UICollectionView”, with special guest Ben Scheirman Aug 13, 2020

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Ben Scheirman, creator of NSScreencast, joins John on an episode all about UICollectionView. How have UICollectionView’s features evolved over time, and how are modern APIs like compositional layouts and diffable data sources changing the way collection views are built and used?

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78: “What’s new in Swift 5.3”, with special guest JP Simard Jul 28, 2020

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JP Simard returns to the show to discuss Swift 5.3’s main new features and improvements, and what those changes might tell us about the current state of Swift and its evolution process.

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77: “Adopting new system features”, with special guest Jordan Morgan Jul 16, 2020

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Jordan Morgan joins John to discuss various strategies for adopting new system features and APIs, how to keep up with the rapid changes to iOS, macOS and Apple’s other platforms, and how to allocate time between different projects.

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76: “A huge year for SwiftUI”, a WWDC20 special with Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block Jun 30, 2020

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Josh Shaffer and Eliza Block from Apple join John to talk about what’s new in SwiftUI, how Xcode Previews work under the hood, the new home screen widget system, Apple’s internal process of adopting and improving SwiftUI, and much more.

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75: “The Swift package ecosystem”, with special guests Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt Jun 19, 2020

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Dave Verwer and Sven A. Schmidt join John to talk about their newly launched Swift Package Index, and what the overall state of Swift’s package ecosystem currently is. Also, dependency management, composing libraries, deploying server-side Swift in production, and much more.

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74: “Let’s build a camera app”, a conversation with the Halide and Spectre team Jun 04, 2020

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On this special episode, John is joined by the entire team behind the award-winning apps Halide and Spectre, Apple’s 2019 App of the Year. Ben, Sebastiaan and Rebecca share their stories of how these apps came to life, how they’re working together between design and development, and how technologies like Computational Photography and Augmented Reality are influencing their work.

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