Inside iOS Dev

For 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

Alex & 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

We 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

Florian 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

Basem 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

Best 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

Soroush 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.

Guest 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

Alex 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

Alex 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

Learn about the underlying mechanics of Auto Layout and the layout system of iOS in general. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Prepping for an interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

An overview of the indispensable Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Chapters 10 through 13. Learn how to write code that's simple, expressive, easy to read, easy to maintain, and elegant. Find Clean Code here: http://amzn.to/2Cd49HO Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Prepping for an interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Alex explains why he thinks Singletons are evil. He gives concrete reasons why and then offers a better alternative. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Engineer job interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

What is Dependency Injection? Why is it useful? How can we use it? 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

Why is there so much confusion around design patterns and architectures? How can we gain better understanding of them? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Preparing for your next iOS Engineer job interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

We have a lively debate over the potential merits and downfalls of Javascript as a programming language and community. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Preparing for your next iOS engineer job interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Want to learn about backend development? http://codetales.io/

An overview of the indispensable Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Chapters 6 through 9. Learn how to write code that's simple, expressive, easy to read, easy to maintain, and elegant. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

We make a confession and discuss developing in Swift versus Objective-C Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

What you need to know about developing for the new iPhone X. https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/overview/iphone-x/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Guest Julian Fahrer joins us to discuss what iOS developers can learn from backend development & devops. Julian's screencasts website: http://codetales.io/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

We share our experience and what we learned at the try! Swift New York City 2017 conference. Including Matt Gallaghers redux-like modeling of view state, Tanner Nelson's server-side Swift using Vapor, Neem Serra's Map & FlatMap magic, and Paul Fenwick's talk on machine ethics & emerging technologies. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Starting in iOS 11, Apple is requiring all apps to use the new SKStoreReviewController to prompt users to review & rate your app. We discuss the details of how this new review prompt works as well as other changes to reviews and the App Store. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

An overview of the indispensable Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Learn how to write code that's simple, expressive, easy to read, easy to maintain, and elegant. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Alex talks about how he nailed his iOS Software Engineer interview process and got his dream job at ThoughtWorks. The book about interviews Alex wrote: https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

An iOS design / architecture talk. Andrew & Alex introduce and discuss view models. What are they? Should you use them? How do they help solve the malignant Massive View Controller problem in iOS? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Andrew & Alex talk about pair programming. The advantages and disadvantages of it and whether you should utilize it or not. They also give some advice about pair programming. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Alex and Andrews describe the problems that arise when working with third party services in your application and how to work around those problems. First, they describe third party services. Then, they talk about specific problems they've had. Finally, they close with key takeaways and main lessons. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Andrew and Alex talk about the top must watch WWDC 2017 videos. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

From being laid off to landing his dream job at Reddit, Andrew shares lessons learned from his recent iOS Engineer job search. Listen to this episode if you want to be prepared for your next job interview. First, he talks about what it means to be laid off. Then, he gives advice about what to do immediately after being laid off. Next, he explains about how he prepared for and carried out the interview process. Finally, he discusses lessons learned and key takeaways. Read 'The iOS Interview Guide' book at https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Reddit is hiring! Go to about.reddit.com and tell them Andrew from Inside iOS Dev sent you. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Andrew and Alex recap Apple's WWDC Platforms State Of The Union 2017 -- Christmas for iOS Devs. Learn what new goodies we can look forward to. XCode, debugging, Swift, VR, AR, and more! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

In this episode, Alex and Andrew discuss 12 useful open source libraries you can use in your iOS app. They give a brief overview of how each works and how they can help you be more productive. They discuss: IGListKit, Realm, SwiftyJSON, AsyncDisplayKit/Texture, DZNEmptyDataSet, Hero, Charts, MGSwipeTableCell, RxSwift, PromiseKit, GDPerformanceView, Alamofire. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

In this episode, we talk about what continuous deployment is and how it can help automate and improve your development process. First, we define continuous deployment. Then, we talk about the evolution of our continuous deployment process. Finally, we end with key takeaways and a recommendation to use Buddybuild for your continuous deployment setup. Blog post mentioned: https://medium.com/@AndrewRohn/8-things-i-learned-in-my-first-eight-months-as-a-software-engineer-35c421a57036 Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Setup checklist: https://gist.github.com/andrewrohn/774185e4e15ddcc14f0a1e3c66c943e3 Andrew and Alex discuss setting up Universal Links in your application so you can deep link users directly into a specific page in your app. First, they discuss the overview and benefits of Universal Links. Then, they go over the exact steps to setup Universal Links. Along the way they discuss any gotchas to be mindful of. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

An introduction to some people in the iOS developer community. And a short exploration into why community matters in the software development world. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Alex and Andrew discuss A/B testing. What it is, how it works, and how to stay on top of it. Next, they discuss dependency management. What is it and why should you use it? How can you setup dependency management? Show Notes: iOS Project Setup with Cocoapods video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZfSXqQcZs&t=4s Learn more about AB testing best practices here: https://m.smartcloud.io/ab-testing-best-practices-in-ios-apps-2f04ab4f642e Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

In this episode, Alex and Andrew talk about tracking users in your application. They discuss the original in-app tracking and why they needed to update it. Then they talk about how they implemented the new in-app tracking. They discuss the evolution of their implementation, the tools they used, and some of the gotchas. We also wrote an article that shows an example of how we implement analytics in our apps https://m.smartcloud.io/analytics-and-tracking-best-practices-in-ios-apps-dedb8f328e97 Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Alex and Andrew introduce the book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and discuss the chapter on testing. They explain how the principles in the book can be applied to any object-oriented application regardless of programming language. Finally, they discuss the main takeaways from the book and about testing an OO application.Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com