Synopsis
Inside iOS dev is a weekly show about real world iOS development. Your hosts, Alex and Andrew, draw from their experiences ranging from 4+ year old legacy codebases, to small startup green field projects, to working on apps at places like Uber & Reddit with millions of active users. They discuss everything from implementing specific features, to creating flexible designs, to utilizing refactoring techniques, and more. This is THE show for professional iOS developers.
Episodes
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Q&A: How to start a career in software engineering after prison
05/02/2019 Duration: 22minAlex & Andrew respond to a listener question about starting a career in software engineering. How to choose between a coding bootcamp and university? What should one learn to be a marketable software engineer? What's the best way to learn? What's the market like for mobile software engineers? And more! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev
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What's new in 2019 plus Alex's new opinion on singletons
15/01/2019 Duration: 22minAlex has a change of mind on singletons after previously declaring them always "evil". Also, what's new in 2019 and what we have planned. You can find previous singletons episode here http://insideiosdev.com/dde8a34e Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref
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Andrews "Toast View Model" Struggle
12/11/2018 Duration: 31minAndrew talks about his recent design struggle with trying to work both within and maintaining a Model-View-Presenter architecture in the context of pre-existing code. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev
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Q&A: How to design an app for scalability?
15/10/2018 Duration: 19minAlex answers a listener question. How does one design an app for scalability?Alex answers a question from a listener that just completed an iOS Engineer interview: How does one design an app for scalability? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev
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The Problems with View Controllers
01/10/2018 Duration: 23minAndrew describes & discusses the various problems with view controllers. Find Paul Hudson (@twostraws) at https://www.hackingwithswift.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev
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Evolving Mobile Architecture at Reddit
14/09/2018 Duration: 21minAndrew talks about the recent architectural refactoring work he did at Reddit. He explains how the iOS team moved from an MVC architecture to a Model View Presenter (MVP) architecture. He also talks about Texture -- an async layout framework for fast scrolling feeds. This episode was originally recorded March 2018. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com
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Q&A episode: React Native & the cultish force of Javascript
02/09/2018 Duration: 27minWe answer a listeners questions. What is the threat/benefit of React Native? What's happening to the job market because of React Native? How do you stay immune to the cultish force of the Javascript religion? What effect will WebAssembly have on web development? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev
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Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift with Kelvin Lau & Vincent Ngo
22/08/2018 Duration: 15minRay Wenderlich authors Kelvin Lau & Vincent Ngo come on the show to discuss their book "Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift". https://store.raywenderlich.com/products/data-structures-and-algorithms-in-swift https://www.raywenderlich.com/1108-join-the-swift-algorithm-club To enter our contest to for a chance to win a free copy of the book tweet what you like about our podcast. We will announce winners in a week or so. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com
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John Sundell on Unit Testing
01/08/2018 Duration: 32minWe talk with acclaimed iOS & Swift blogger John Sundell about unit testing is. We start out with just unit testing is and then move into details: when & how to do unit testing, tdd, and more! Find John Sundell at https://www.swiftbysundell.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Have an iOS Engineer Interview? Learn how to ace it at: https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref
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Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift with David Kopec
20/07/2018 Duration: 26minWe speak with David Kopec, professor & iOS developer consultant, about his book "Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift". What can you learn from solving classic CS problems such as search, constraint-satisfaction, graph problems and more? David gives a brief explanation of some of the interesting problems in the book such as K-Means clustering and Genetic algorithms. Use promo code 'pckopec' at https://www.manning.com/books/classic-computer-science-problems-in-swift to purchase the book for half price! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com
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One Year Anniversary Episode - Podcasting, learning, architecture, & JavaScript talk!
27/06/2018 Duration: 01h16minFor their one year anniversary, Alex & Andrew let loose, have some beers and enjoy some free flowing chat. They talk podcasting, learning, architecture, & JavaScript! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Have an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref
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WWDC 2018 Recap - What you need to know as a developer
12/06/2018 Duration: 26minAlex & Andrew do a quick recap of the WWDC 2018 Keynote & Platforms State of the Union. They get straight to what you need to know as a developer to be on top of all the new announcements and changes. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Have an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref
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Learning the Realm database with Marin Todorov
30/05/2018 Duration: 27minWe invite author & Ray Wenderlich contributor Marin Todorov to talk about the Realm database. Marin explains what it is and why you might use it as a persistence solution. He compares it to Core Data and helps give guidance on how to choose a persistence solution. He also goes into some of its benefits: simplified API, improved performance, cross platform usage, & automatic sync. Lastly, he talks about his new book "Realm: Building Modern Swift Apps with Realm Database". Find the book: https://store.raywenderlich.com/products/realm-building-modern-swift-apps-with-realm-database Learn more about Marin: http://www.underplot.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com
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App Architecture with Florian Kugler
21/05/2018 Duration: 34minFlorian Kugler, co-founder of the popular objc.io, joins us to discuss his new book "App Architecture". We discuss the five architectures covered in the book: Model-View-Controller, Model-View-ViewModel + Coordinator, Model-View-Controller+ViewState, ModelAdapter-ViewBinder, and The Elm Architecture. We also touch on the VIPER architecture and why it wasn't included in the book. Finally, we close out with some advice from Florian. Want to read the new "App Architecture" book? https://amzn.to/2KJfJPT https://www.objc.io/books/app-architecture/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com
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Clean Architecture with Basem Emara
15/05/2018 Duration: 28minBasem Emara discusses his application of Clean Architecture on iOS. He talks the different components, data flow, dependencies, & more!https://iosmentor.io/clean-architecture-for-ios/Buy Clean Architecture book
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The Problems of "Fun Driven Development" with Art Fedosejev
30/04/2018 Duration: 32minBest selling author Art Fedosejev joins us to discuss his new "Fun Driven Development" thesis and the problems it entails. What can we do to be more professional, responsible, and ethical software engineers? http://fundrivendevelopment.guide/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref
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Soroush Khanlou on dev community, architecture, best books to read, and more.
16/04/2018 Duration: 26minSoroush Khanlou joins for a rapid fire style interview. He talks about the iOS dev community, app architecture, best books to read as a dev to level up, and more! Find Soroush at: https://fatalerror.fm/ and http://khanlou.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Book recommendations: Domain Driven Design, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
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Swift Sets and Pattern Matching
04/04/2018 Duration: 16minGuest Kyle Roucis talks about the power of using Sets in Swift for pattern matching. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref
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Running into problems with shared cross platform code in JavaScript
20/03/2018 Duration: 22minAlex talks about some of the problems he had working on a codebase that shared its business logic in JavaScript. We also talk generally about sharing code across mobile platforms. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref
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The Null Object Pattern & Law of Demeter
05/03/2018 Duration: 14minAlex explains how to use the Null Object Pattern to simplify your code (an alternative to optionals). Read a related article about Null Object design pattern here: https://m.smartcloud.io/swift-optionals-and-the-null-object-design-pattern-7578b7448edf Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Prepping for an iOS Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref