Swift by Sundell

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63: “It’s been a wild year”, a Holiday Special with Donny Wals and Antoine van der Lee Dec 19, 2019

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iOS developers and bloggers Donny Wals and Antoine van der Lee join John to wrap up the third season of the show with this year’s Holiday Special. How has Swift changed in 2019, and where might things be headed in 2020? Also, wishes for Xcode Santa, blogging and open source, and much more.

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62: “Backend-driven UIs”, with special guest Kate Castellano Dec 05, 2019

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Kate Castellano joins John to discuss how views and UIs can be made more dynamic and data-driven, and how that could even enable certain views to get their entire layout configuration from the server. Also, view models, handling loading states, and much more.

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61: “End-to-end Swift”, with special guest Tim Condon Nov 22, 2019

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Tim Condon, server-side Swift developer, writer and conference organizer, joins John to talk about all things networking. From organizing and abstracting networking code on the client-side, to using Swift on the server, and how to combine the two in order to write Swift end-to-end.

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60: “Deploying SwiftUI in production”, with special guest David Smith Nov 07, 2019

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Indie iOS and watchOS developer “Underscore” David Smith joins John to discuss the current state of Apple Watch app development, and how SwiftUI is changing how watchOS apps are built. Also, managing and prioritizing multiple projects, Swift vs Objective-C, and whether SwiftUI is actually production-ready.

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59: “A major step forward”, a SwiftUI special with Josh Shaffer Oct 22, 2019

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Josh Shaffer, engineering director with the UIKit and SwiftUI team at Apple, joins John to go on a deep dive into SwiftUI. What inspired the creation and design of SwiftUI, how does it impact the way apps are developed and architected, how is Apple using and improving SwiftUI internally, and much more.

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58: “Swift for Machine Learning”, with special guests Paige Bailey and Brennan Saeta Oct 08, 2019

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John is joined by Paige Bailey and Brennan Saeta from the Swift for TensorFlow team at Google, to talk about the work they’re doing adopting and adapting Swift for Machine Learning. What makes Swift a good fit for this task, how might the language need to evolve to support this type of use cases even better, and much more.

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57: “Audio and Swift”, with special guest Adam Bell Sep 24, 2019

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Adam Bell joins John to talk about audio programming in Swift, and how SwiftUI makes rendering visual representations of audio and other custom shapes easier than ever before. Also, reverse engineering, mixing SwiftUI with UIKit and other view frameworks, and much more.

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56: “The power of software”, with special guest Ish ShaBazz Sep 13, 2019

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Ish ShaBazz joins John to talk about indie app development, planning and productivity, deciding which system features to adopt and what trends to follow, what’s new in Xcode 11 and Swift 5.1, and much more.

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55: “A whole new world”, with special guest Marin Todorov Aug 30, 2019

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Marin Todorov joins John to talk about bridging the gap between UIKit, Combine and SwiftUI, how to design intuitive and robust APIs, and how the developer community can augment Apple’s SDKs through open source.

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54: “Swift 5.1, iOS 13 and iPadOS”, with special guests Benedikt Terhechte and Bas Broek Aug 13, 2019

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Benedikt Terhechte and Bas Broek join John to dive into iOS 13 and iPadOS, as well as Swift 5.1 — how it powers SwiftUI, and if it would be possible to backport parts of SwiftUI to earlier iOS versions. Also, text editors, new iPhone and iPad UI conventions, and more.

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