223: Defaults
The power of default settings and choices, and the impact of changing your app's default behavior.
Episodes
Under the Radar
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.
Episodes
222: Fingers in the Dam
When fixing a simple visual bug unexpectedly becomes a much larger problem.
221: Optional Fun
How we're spending our summers so far.
220: The Danger Zone
Approaching a change with very, very high stakes.
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.
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.
217: Feature Regrets
Dealing with features we wish we'd never added.
216: Shark Battle
When big-company maneuvers hit the little fish like us.
215: Group Therapy Session
Forgiving ourselves for a year of greatly reduced productivity.
214: From Subscribe to Follow
WWDC 2021's announcement, and whether Overcast should adopt a terminology change along with Apple and Spotify.
213: A Server Disaster
You should totally run your own servers. It'll be fine! Well, most of the time.
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?
211: Logging
Deforestation, timber production, and wood preparation. [taps earpiece] What?… Oh, sorry. Scratch that. Writing lines of text to files for diagnostic purposes.
210: Thinking Like A Business
Trying to remove emotion and assumptions from indie business decision-making.
209: Binary Stars
Copying someone else's work as a learning exercise, and the tricky balance between copying and inspiration.
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.
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.
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.
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.
204: Adopting SwiftUI
The continued challenges of modernizing Overcast with Swift and SwiftUI, and deciding whether to rewrite Objective-C components in Swift.
203: Modernizing Overcast
Refactoring and rewriting the foundations of a 6-year-old Objective-C codebase using Swift and modern APIs.
202: The Calm After The Storm
Settling into a baseline, leaving no room to be undercut, and where Widgetsmith goes from here.
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.
200: Time Flies
What Apple's event and iOS 14's timing means for us.
199: Spending Dan Riccio’s 2020 Battery Surplus
Our second-annual wishlist for how we hope this fall's Apple hardware spends the efficiency gains from another year of technological progress.
198: Store Wars
How Epic vs. Apple might affect developers like us.
197: iOS 14 Privacy Disclosures
The new App Store privacy disclosures and tracking-permission prompt in iOS 14.
196: Not-So-Secret Plans
What we're working on so far this summer, and why we're not keeping it secret.
195: Apple's Grand Vision of the Future
Adapting to the continued consolidation of Apple's platforms and frameworks.
194: WWDC 2020
How the online-only format of WWDC 2020 is working out in practice, and how quickly we plan to adopt the new APIs.