Under the Radar

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From development and design to marketing and support, Under the Radar is all about independent app development. It's rarely longer than 30 minutes. Hosted by Marco Arment and David Smith.

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Episodes

225: The Fragmented Future

The effects of legal settlements and regulations on independent iOS developers, and how we can ensure that we still have a place in the scary potential futures that may come.

Sep 01, 2021•30 min•Ep. 225

224: Mr. Day One

Needing to offer different features and experiences to different parts of your userbase due to hardware limitations and OS differences.

Aug 18, 2021•30 min•Ep. 224

223: Defaults

The power of default settings and choices, and the impact of changing your app's default behavior.

Aug 04, 2021•30 min•Ep. 223

222: Fingers in the Dam

When fixing a simple visual bug unexpectedly becomes a much larger problem.

Jul 21, 2021•30 min•Ep. 222

221: Optional Fun

How we're spending our summers so far.

Jul 07, 2021•30 min•Ep. 221

220: The Danger Zone

Approaching a change with very, very high stakes.

Jun 23, 2021•30 min•Ep. 220

219: WWDC 2021

The second digital-only WWDC, how iOS 15 and watchOS 8 impact our apps, and what we'll be tackling first this summer.

Jun 09, 2021•30 min•Ep. 219

218: Making the Most of a Virtual WWDC

What to expect from WWDC, how to prepare for the virtual event, and how to follow the material.

May 26, 2021•30 min•Ep. 218

217: Feature Regrets

Dealing with features we wish we'd never added.

May 12, 2021•29 min•Ep. 217

216: Shark Battle

When big-company maneuvers hit the little fish like us.

Apr 29, 2021•30 min•Ep. 216

215: Group Therapy Session

Forgiving ourselves for a year of greatly reduced productivity.

Apr 14, 2021•29 min•Ep. 215

214: From Subscribe to Follow

WWDC 2021's announcement, and whether Overcast should adopt a terminology change along with Apple and Spotify.

Apr 01, 2021•30 min•Ep. 214

213: A Server Disaster

You should totally run your own servers. It'll be fine! Well, most of the time.

Mar 17, 2021•28 min•Ep. 213

212: A Watchsmith Adventure

A _DavidSmith Story Half-Hour on the surprising journey to build a simple photo complication for Apple Watch. How hard could it be?

Mar 03, 2021•30 min•Ep. 212

211: Logging

Deforestation, timber production, and wood preparation. [taps earpiece] What?… Oh, sorry. Scratch that. Writing lines of text to files for diagnostic purposes.

Feb 18, 2021•29 min•Ep. 211

210: Thinking Like A Business

Trying to remove emotion and assumptions from indie business decision-making.

Feb 03, 2021•30 min•Ep. 210

209: Binary Stars

Copying someone else's work as a learning exercise, and the tricky balance between copying and inspiration.

Jan 20, 2021•29 min•Ep. 209

208: The Road Ahead

The kind of year we expect 2021 to be for Apple-platform developers, and an update on Overcast's SwiftUI progress.

Jan 06, 2021•29 min•Ep. 208

207: Privacy Labels and Analytics

Apple's new privacy labels in the App Store, and how we've designed our custom analytics frameworks for minimal data collection.

Dec 22, 2020•29 min•Ep. 207

206: Pivoting Your App

The tricky balance of making big changes to your app to better serve your current market without upsetting your initial customers.

Dec 09, 2020•30 min•Ep. 206

205: We Got a Raise

How the M1 Macs are game-changers for developers, and our thoughts on the lower fees from the App Store Small Business Program.

Nov 25, 2020•30 min•Ep. 205

204: Adopting SwiftUI

The continued challenges of modernizing Overcast with Swift and SwiftUI, and deciding whether to rewrite Objective-C components in Swift.

Nov 09, 2020•30 min•Ep. 204

203: Modernizing Overcast

Refactoring and rewriting the foundations of a 6-year-old Objective-C codebase using Swift and modern APIs.

Oct 28, 2020•30 min•Ep. 203

202: The Calm After The Storm

Settling into a baseline, leaving no room to be undercut, and where Widgetsmith goes from here.

Oct 14, 2020•30 min•Ep. 202

201: Widgetsmith

Dave's app is number one in the App Store! We explore the mind-bending scale and perspective of such a defining moment in an indie developer's career.

Sep 29, 2020•30 min•Ep. 201