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. Sponsors JetBrains : Try AppCode, the smart IDE for iOS and macOS development, for free for 30 days. Check out what’s new in AppCode , and how JetBrains continue to make their popular developer tool even faste...
Dec 19, 2019•1 hr 5 min
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. Sponsors Ray Wenderlich : Accelerate the way your team learns new frameworks and technologies with a raywenderlich.com team subscription . Also, get a special discount on the Living by the Code book . Instabug : Thousands of companies, incl...
Dec 05, 2019•1 hr 6 min
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. Sponsors Sherlock : The developer tool that gives your iOS simulator superpowers. Try Sherlock for free at sherlock.inspiredcode.io , and use offer code SUNDELL to get a 20% discount. Manning : Learn something new wit...
Nov 22, 2019•1 hr 12 min
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. Sponsor Bitrise : Fast, stable and easy to use continuous integration. Automatically build, test and distribute your app on every single commit that you make. Get started for free at bitrise.i...
Nov 07, 2019•1 hr 24 min
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. Sponsor Soulver : The perfect calculation companion for developers. Calculate anything using variables, natural language processing, inline results, and more. It’s like Swift Playgrounds, but for ...
Oct 22, 2019•53 min
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. Sponsors Instabug : Meet the New Instabug, which helps mobile teams connect with customers, to iterate faster, and to release with a higher degree of confidence. Visit instabu...
Oct 08, 2019•52 min
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. Sponsors Clubhouse : A lightweight, yet powerful project management tool built specifically for software development teams. Now free for up to 10 users! Learn more at clubhouse.io/sundell . Bitrise : Fast, stable and easy to use ...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 22 min
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. Sponsors Bitrise : Fast, stable and easy to use continuous integration. Automatically build, test and distribute your app on every single commit that you make. Get started for free at bitrise.io/swift . Clubhouse : A lightweight, yet powerful project management tool built specifically for sof...
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr 9 min
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. Sponsors Apply Pixels : A fantastic collection of design resources, toolkits and templates for both designers and developers. Get a 30% discount on any purchase by visiting applypixels.com/sundell . Clubhouse : A lightweight, yet powerful project management tool built specifically for sof...
Aug 30, 2019•1 hr 20 min
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. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to three wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Clubhouse : A lightweight, yet powerful project management tool built specifical...
Aug 13, 2019•1 hr 25 min
Longtime Apple platforms developer Brent Simmons joins John to discuss how SwiftUI is ushering in a new era for Apple’s developer tools, and how we as third party developers can prepare for it. Also, Mac development, lots of tips for writing efficient code, and dynamic programming in Swift. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: RemObjects Software: Deploy your Swift code beyond Apple’s ...
Aug 01, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Casey Liss joins John to talk about Apple’s newly announced Combine framework for reactive programming, how it compares to existing tools like RxSwift, and different strategies for adopting it. Also, unit testing, life as an indie developer, and much more. Sponsors Bitrise: A fast, stable and easy to use continuous integration service. Automatically build, test and distribute your app on every single commit that you make. Get started for free at bitrise.io/swift . Triplebyte: Apply to work for o...
Jul 18, 2019•1 hr 29 min
Kaya Thomas joins John to talk about Apple’s various accessibility technologies and how SwiftUI is taking things to a whole new level. Also, how UI testing and accessibility are closely related, and what makes declarative UI development so powerful. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Instabug: Squash bugs much faster with Instabug. Get a 14 day free trial and their brand new t-shirt ...
Jul 04, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, joins John on this 50th episode of the show — to discuss the current state of Swift and how it came to be, as well as to speculate about what the future of the language and its ecosystem might look like. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Manning: Learn something new with a book or video course from Manning. Get a massive 40% discount on a great selec...
Jun 20, 2019•1 hr 21 min
It’s time for the 2019 Swift by Sundell WWDC special, featuring PCalc creator James Thomson — who, with his over 25 years of experience developing apps for Apple’s platforms, joins John to discuss SwiftUI, Catalyst, and the other exciting tools and frameworks introduced at this year’s WWDC. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Bitrise: A fast, stable and easy to use continuous integrat...
Jun 06, 2019•1 hr 24 min
Automation enthusiast and Scriptable developer Simon Støvring joins John to discuss automation, scripting, and building tools. Also, app modularity, frameworks, and what it would take to bring automation on Apple’s platforms to the next level. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Reveal: Inspect, debug, and live-edit your UIs — including views, layers, constraints, and gesture recogniz...
May 21, 2019•1 hr 14 min
iOS developer and YouTuber Mayuko Inoue joins John to discuss team work and how a solid code structure can make teams more productive. Other topics include goal setting, how to grow as an engineer, and contributing to open source. Sponsors Triplebyte: Apply to work for over 400 top tech companies through one single, fair and efficient interview process. Get a $1000 signing bonus when you find your next Swift developer job at triplebyte.com/sundell . Manning: Learn something new with a book or vi...
May 09, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Michael Ilseman, developer on the Swift team at Apple, joins John to go on a deep dive into the String type, its implementation, and its related APIs. Topics range from the way Swift’s String API is designed, to its underlying complexities, and practical performance tips. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Reveal: Inspect, debug, and live-edit your UIs — including views, layers, cons...
Apr 23, 2019•43 min
Chris Eidhof and Matt Gallagher join John to discuss app architecture, RxSwift and Functional Reactive Programming, and how to decide what patterns, frameworks, and concepts to adopt when architecting and building an app. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Triplebyte: Apply to work for over 400 top tech companies through one single, fair and efficient interview process. Get a $1000 s...
Apr 09, 2019•1 hr 35 min
Janina Kutyn, former Apple Music developer and now an iOS developer in Amsterdam, joins John for a UI development special! Topics include various techniques for building UIs and layouts, measuring and fixing performance problems, and supporting different screen sizes and devices. Sponsor: Manning Manning offers a wide selection of books and courses for Swift developers — ranging from “Getting started with Swift” to “Classic computer science problems in Swift” . Get 40% off any purchase by going ...
Mar 29, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Dave DeLong, former Apple developer evangelist and now iOS architect and instructor, joins John to talk about handling dates in code, MVC & app architecture, Mac development, and to tell stories of how WWDC is put together. Sponsor: Instabug A complete solution for beta testing, bug & crash reporting, and user feedback. Get 20% off any plan when using offer code swiftbysundell2019 . Go to instabug.com/sundell to learn more. Thanks to Instabug for sponsoring this episode. Checking them ou...
Mar 14, 2019•1 hr 25 min
Ted Kremenek, manager of the Languages and Runtimes team at Apple, joins John to talk about Swift 5 — focusing on ABI stability and what it means for the future of the language, how the underpinnings of String have been improved in this release, how Apple is using Swift internally, and much more. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Zeplin: Improve the collaboration between developers ...
Feb 26, 2019•49 min
Dave Verwer joins John to take a look behind the scenes of the iOS Dev Weekly newsletter, to talk about working as an indie and how to increase your chances of success as an indie creator or developer, juggling multiple projects, as well as iOS development trends. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out to help support this show: Instabug: A complete solution for beta testing, bug & crash reporting, and user fe...
Feb 14, 2019•1 hr 23 min
Ben Sandofsky, the developer behind the camera app Halide, joins John for this season 3 premiere of the show — to talk about designer/developer collaboration, what goes into building a camera app, iOS app architecture, handling dependencies, minimizing an app’s binary size, and much more. Sponsor: Manning Get started learning some of the core concepts of Swift and iOS app development, or fill in gaps in your existing knowledge, with Manning’s “Getting started with Swift” book bundle. Three books...
Jan 29, 2019•1 hr 34 min
JP Simard and Jesse Squires, the hosts of Swift Unwrapped, join John for this year's Holiday Special. Topics include ways that Swift has evolved during the year, what's coming up in Swift 5, maintaining open source projects, and continuing the tradition of sending wishes to Xcode Santa. This is the last episode of season two of this show, which will be back for its third season at the end of January 2019. Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! 🎉 Sponsor: Bitrise This episode of Swift by Sundell w...
Dec 20, 2018•1 hr 23 min
Kristina Fox, iOS and watchOS developer at Intuit, joins John to talk about Apple Watch development, building UI using storyboards vs in code, growing into a senior developer, and how to use change as a learning opportunity. Sponsor: Bitrise This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to Bitrise . Easily set up continuous integration and continuously deliver new builds of your app to your team using their fast and friendly platform. Get started for free at go.bitrise.io/swift . Lin...
Dec 06, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Ellen Shapiro joins John to talk about all sorts of automated testing — unit tests, integration tests, UI test, you name it! The two also discuss Ellen's recent adventures into Kotlin and whether Kotlin Native could become a nice cross-platform solution for mobile apps. Sponsor: Ray Wenderlich This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to Ray Wenderlich . Check out their massive Black Friday sale before November 26th, which lets you sign up for a full year of access to over 1,500 ...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 34 min
Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and PromiseKit, joins John to talk about package manager design, asynchronous programming, interview processes, and also to tell some stories of how the Swift Package Manager was born. Sponsor: Wingu This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to Wingu - an exciting new startup that makes it easy to build location-based apps and features. Start your free trial at wingu.app/sundell , and use offer code SUNDELL15 for 15% off your subscription. Links Ma...
Nov 08, 2018•1 hr 21 min
Rahul Malik of Pinterest joins John to talk about working on a large-scale iOS app, using third party build systems, client/server networking architectures and much more. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out, which also helps support the show. Manning is giving everyone listening to this show an incredible 40% discount on their massive catalog of programming books. Check out their special Swift by Sundell bundle...
Oct 24, 2018•1 hr 15 min
Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis, formerly iOS developers at Kickstarter and now hosts of Point-Free, join John to talk about functional programming in Swift, and how it can be used to build apps, websites, and even control the world. Sponsors This episode of Swift by Sundell was made possible thanks to two wonderful sponsors. Make sure to check them out, which also helps support the show. Amazon Web Services' AppSync lets you easily add GraphQL-powered cloud syncing to your app, and using the...
Oct 12, 2018•1 hr 22 min
