123: “The evolution of Swift”, with special guest Nick Lockwood
On this final episode of 2022, Nick Lockwood returns to the show to discuss the overall evolution of Swift and its ecosystem of tools and li...
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20 of 123 episodes122: “Swift concurrency in practice”, with special guest Ben Scheirman
Ben Scheirman returns to the show to discuss how Swift’s built-in concurrency features, such as async/await and tasks, can be used in practi...
121: “Responsive and smooth UIs”, with special guest Adam Bell
Adam Bell returns to the podcast to discuss different techniques and approaches for optimizing UI code, and how to utilize tools like animat...
120: “Freelancing and WWDC22 highlights”, with special guest Donny Wals
Donny Wals returns to the show to talk about being an iOS developer freelancer, and to discuss some of the key new APIs, Swift language feat...
119: “The role of system design”, with special guest Gui Rambo
Gui Rambo returns to the show to talk about the role and importance of system design when building apps and open source tools, and how commo...
118: “What’s new in SwiftUI in iOS 16?”, with special guest Natalia Panferova
Natalia Panferova joins John to discuss some of the key new features that are coming to SwiftUI and UIKit in iOS 16, and to talk about her e...
117: “Swift 5.7, generics, and the road to Swift 6”, with special guest Ben Cohen
Ben Cohen, manager of the Swift team at Apple, joins John on this WWDC22 special to discuss Swift 5.7, how generics have been made more powe...
116: “The evolution of SwiftUI”, with special guest Chris Eidhof
Chris Eidhof returns to the podcast to talk about how SwiftUI has evolved since its initial release, to share several key learnings from usi...
115: “A framework and an app”, with special guest Simon Støvring
Simon Støvring returns to the show to talk about how he built his new text editor Runestone, how to effectively manage an app’s settings, pe...
114: “Accessibility on Apple’s platforms”, with special guest Sommer Panage
Sommer Panage returns to the show to discuss Apple’s various accessibility APIs and tools, how to incorporate accessibility support into a t...
113: “Where is Swift headed in 2022?”, with special guest JP Simard
On this 2022 season premiere, JP Simard returns to the show to discuss what’s next for Swift in 2022, and what kinds of improvements and new...
112: “The 2021 Season Finale”
To wrap up the 2021 season of the show, John revisits some of the key themes and topics that were discussed both on the show itself, and wit...
111: “Custom rendering”, with special guest James Thomson
James Thomson returns to the show to discuss the various technologies that enable us to render custom UIs on Apple’s platforms. From renderi...
110: “Concurrency beyond app development”, with special guest Tim Condon
Tim Condon joins John to discuss how both client and server-side Swift developers could utilize the new built-in concurrency system, as well...
109: “Code maintenance”, with special guest Nick Lockwood
Nick Lockwood joins John for a discussion about maintaining Swift code bases — from open source projects, to ones worked on by teams of vari...
108: “Concurrency and Swift-DocC”, with special guest Marin Todorov
Marin Todorov returns to the podcast to discuss Swift’s new concurrency system and its newly announced backward compatibility, his new book...
107: “UIKit in 2021”, with special guest Ben Scheirman
Ben Scheirman returns to the show to talk about modern UIKit-based app development, how UIKit has evolved over the past few years, and how i...
106: “Opportunities for optimization”, with special guest Christian Selig
Christian Selig returns to the show to talk about how he used the new Safari extension system on iOS to build Amplosion and Achoo, the pros...
105: “Building various kinds of editors”, with special guest Marcin Krzyzanowski
Marcin Krzyzanowski returns to the show to talk about building editors for Swift code, backend-driven user interfaces, and more. Also, the c...
104: “The magic of Augmented Reality”, with special guest Roxana Jula
Roxana Jula joins John to discuss Apple’s various tools, frameworks, and APIs for building Augmented Reality experiences. How to get started...