Under the Radar

What happens when you break 50 million home screens?

Early decisions and implementation choices that have large impacts down the road — good and bad.

Taking time off when you realize — or don't yet — that you really need it.

Encountering bugs and feedback that our development and beta testing didn't or couldn't uncover.

The rush to submit our iOS 17 apps for its general release, and the last window of opportunity to prepare our test devices for last year's OSes.

Our final plans and preparation for iOS 17's launch, now that we can confidently predict its timing.

How to communicate new features to new and existing customers — and which features are worth communicating.

Splitting your time between iOS 17 and visionOS development, and tips for attending a visionOS lab.

The value of exploration and experimentation.

Examining the constant anxiety of feeling like you're falling "behind" in your app's development.

Our expectations for the visionOS app market when Apple Vision Pro launches next year.

An interview with Josh Shaffer and Chris Thielen about Swift macros, SwiftData, interactive widgets, and more, recorded at Apple Park during WWDC 2023.

Our annual pre-WWDC episode: practical advice for those attending the event, and how everyone — virtual or in-person — can make the most of the week.

Controlling the urge to over-invest in details that won't proportionally benefit our customers.

Modern Apple devices offer incredible power — use it!

We talk ourselves into, and then back out of, hiring more people.

Updating a decade-old app to a new subscription business model, and how the change has performed so far and been received by the existing users.

Strategies for self-help channels in your app to minimize support email.

A huge update to Pedometer++ including a complete UI rewrite and significant new features.

Taking risks to move an old app forward.

The benefits of a work-"vacation" and the discipline of shipping.

Understanding subscription metrics and the inherent limits they impose.

Our plans for the first half of this year, which may include the launch of a new platform from Apple.

Abandoning the CloudKit plan for Overcast in light of new information.

How publishing our processes and open-sourcing our code help us build our skills, clarify our thoughts, and produce better outcomes.

Refining and improving the most boring and rudimentary experiences in our apps, and testing variations on Widgetsmith's paywall.

Considerations for feature removals in the context of the Overcast website player.

Reflections on launching a new app that's extremely different from our usual work.

Feeling unmotivated, inspiration vs. motivation, and techniques to get moving again. Be kind to yourself.

David's experience taking the Apple Watch Ultra into its natural habitat.

How our iOS 16 launches went, and what we're focusing on next.

Last-minute preparations for the imminent launch of iOS 16 and the iPhone 14 series.

Balancing the needs of your customers with your needs as a business.

We don't have the capabilities of larger staffs, and we can't do everything, so we must keep our scope and expectations within the capacity of what one person can do.

Are SwiftUI apps destined to be mediocre, or can we still make great apps? Introducing the famous App Development Pentagon.

Rewriting major parts of your app with aggressive new targets while keeping the old code around for compatibility.

With the dust settling from WWDC, we have more realistic expectations of the new APIs and can make achievable plans for the summer.

In this special extended episode, we interview Serenity Caldwell and Andreas Wendker from Apple in the new Developer Center from WWDC 2022.

Mentally preparing ourselves for WWDC 2022.

An update on our hardware and software setups for development, considering Apple's current lineup.

The decision to shut down a service, and how to best take care of its customers.

A collection of mini-topics: the WWDC announcement, Phased Release for Automatic Updates, and the value of in-app Help documentation.

Considerations that went into the Overcast redesign, and its initial reception.

The benefits and pitfalls of data-driven choices.

A big update to Widgetsmith, and two developers giving fashion advice.

Our perceived ideals of quality don't always win.

How we choose and manipulate colors as non-designers.

So you have an idea to make an app. Is it available, is it worthwhile, and will you feel good about doing it? What happens if it works?

How our expectations for 2021 panned out, and the kind of work we're planning to do in 2022.

Our icon-design journeys over time have led us to lean heavily into SF Symbols today.