
AppForce1: news and info for iOS app developers
Weekly podcast discussing the latest updates, tools and events relevant to iOS app developers. I will also have a couple of reoccurring show sections to spread the word on fellow iOS developers doing fun and interesting things. On top of that I am working hard to do interviews with people relevant to iOS app developers. Think peers, teachers, bloggers who will have an open discussion with me so you can see what passion, hard work and a great community can do for your personal work and success.
Latest episodes

Apr 20, 2023 • 8min
It was a content launch week...
Send us a textLinks in this episode:Build your own TwitterReal-World Xcode Project Using TuistLinting Documentation with Vale to Increase Quality & ConsistencyBasic Stream Backend Integration using NodeJSComparison of Cherry Brown and Gazzew U4 switchesSkip typing your login credentials manually with Xcode breakpointsNative vs Web: Technologies Available to Native Apps but not Web Apps3 mistakes to avoid with async / awaitUnderstanding unstructured and detached tasks in SwiftWhat I Learned Writing My Own CloudKit Syncing LibraryCyclomatic Complexity in Swift: Understanding How it Affect Your Code QualityStream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer

Apr 11, 2023 • 16min
Ok that happened... Good and bad.
Send us a textLinks:Comparing Operators of Combine for iOSPlanning Animations in SwiftUISwiftUI ToolbarAutomating Swift CLI releases with GitHub ActionsGitHub webhooks 🤝 Xcode CloudShow an Incoming Call on a DeviceHide Sensitive Data When Device Is Locked?Tap Gestures on WidgetsSwift Package Index Apple sponsorshipApple as a supporter of the Swift Package IndexMultiplatform SwiftUI codeDebug ASWebAuthenticationSessionWeb content with SFSafariViewControllerSwift Evolution MonthlyBasics of structured concurrency in SwiftiOS Confs in 2023Other links:CocoaHeadsNL meetups AppDevConBuild your own twitter projectArticle about Vale linting with steps on how to integrate with XcodeCommit about Vale in Stream's Chat SDKStream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer

Mar 8, 2023 • 33min
My delayed regular episode 100 with loads of Swift concurrency
Send us a textLinksTaskGroup error handlingFilter debugger outputPasskeys for iOS@available attributeSwift 5.9: Network reqs in Swift package pluginsUsers manage In-App Subs.ProgressViewTabViewRun and test async Vapor cmndsTasks in parallelOrder and ConcurrencyShare with UIActivityViewControllerShare breakpointsSign in with Apple and AWS AmplifyAnimations with Mask View ModifierSequential AnimationsStyling ComponentsPin SPM dependencies versionsCharts. CustomizationsCharts. InteractionsMulti-Cursor EditingSwiftUI EnvironmentDetached TasksSwiftLeedsStream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer

Feb 13, 2023 • 52min
Shaun Donnelly, developer turned manager turned developer with Indie apps on the side.
Send us a textShaun took me up on a request on Mastodon to come on my podcast.We had a great conversation about how he ventured into management as a software developer. We also talk about how he got into software and iOS app development. Shaun took the React route. Start with web development, get started with React, progress into React native and then making the leap into native app development.Ray Wenderlich, now called Kodeco was instrumental in learning about iOS app development.You can get in touch with Shaun through Mastodon or his website.https://mstdn.social/@shaundonNice UX Design Newsletterhttps://codakuma.com/Links to his apps are on his website too.Some of the podcasts we mentioned in the episode:Under the Radar PodcastIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Podcast Episodes – The Always Sunny Podcast99% InvisibleEverything Everywhere Daily PodcastAccidental Tech PodcastSwift by SundellAdam's conference https://swiftleeds.co.uk/Big shoutout to Dave Verwer and the Curated platform.Stream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer

Feb 10, 2023 • 14min
A book, an article, loads of SwiftUI
Send us a textI've been scheduling a few interviews again. It's interesting to see that people are often quite self-deprecating about being a good candidate to be interviewed on my podcast. People can always indicate why they are not exciting guests, but let's start at the opposite end. Think about why you would be a good guest for my podcast. And I notice that a lot. People often start with the negative. Why not start with the positive, I wonder?In this episode I am going to talk about many things:The new book published by Peter FrieseMinimal Node Integration to Get You Started with StreamMerge Sort In Swiftif let shorthand syntax in SwiftImplementing “double tap tab bar to scroll to top”Variadic ViewsSwiftUI Views are ListsHow to use async/await with completion handlersAmbiguous DecodingModern SwiftUI: Identified arraysSearch | kean.blogDeveloper guide on keychain for iOSIterating over web socket messages with async / await in SwiftNSURLSession connection leakGaining access to Command-line from XCTestStream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer

Feb 2, 2023 • 40min
Natalia Panferova, business owner, book author, and ex-member of the SwiftUI team at Apple.
Send us a textNatalia worked in companies in Europe and in New Zealand building web and mobile applications. Before joining Nil Coalescing she was designing and building SwiftUI APIs as a member of the core SwiftUI team at Apple. She enjoys working with Swift and sharing her iOS development knowledge with the community. She recently wrote a book Integrating SwiftUI into UIKit Apps that covers a variety of ways to add SwiftUI to an existing UIKit project and offers many tips to avoid common issues and mistakes when working with both frameworks at the same time.Check Natalia's book and consider getting your copy:https://books.nilcoalescing.com/integrating-swiftuiYou can find Natalia online on:Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@natpanferovaTwitter: https://twitter.com/natpanferovaThe business she runs with her husband is called Nil Coalescing.Stream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer

Feb 2, 2023 • 43min
ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
Send us a textMeet my friend. ChatGPT. I interviewed him. It's an idea I got from another podcast. Enjoy. :)Stream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer

Jan 22, 2023 • 19min
Fake hardware, Makefiles, protocols and churn... Lots of iOS and Swift content too.
Send us a textIt has been a while since my last episode. But no worries, I am not gone. January has been a super busy month and I have been working on some exciting things this month. Hopefully I can share a bit more on that soon. It involves setting up a new project using a micro framework architecture using Tuist.io. If you never checked out that too, make sure you do.Also, you can now support my podcast with a subscription directly through my podcast hosting provider. I love Buzzsprout for the way they keep raising the bar as a podcast hosting provider.I did part of the recording and editing after the surprise wedding of my nephew. The surprise was on us, the guests, do if I missed something in editing, now you know why.In this episode I am going to talk about many things:Fake hardware and my my quest for a new microphoneReading hardwareUtilizing Makefiles for Swift projectsShift in the protocol paradigmDebouncing with Swift concurrency5 Techniques to Effortlessly Send Data from UIKit to SwiftUIUsing JavaScript in a Swift appCreating App Prototypes from Low to High-FidelityThe Tyranny of the Churn EquationText modifiers in SwiftUIApplying Built-In Image Filters In SwiftMaking a serverless Swift function with Fastly and UpstashStream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer

Jan 4, 2023 • 24min
New year, new microphone.
Send us a textIn this episode, I’m going to talk about:A new microphone for podcasting, the Shure 87A2022 in reviewHow to Run Stream’s Docs on a Multipass VMXcode Cloud scripts: Fastlane and CocoapodsSwift async/await in AWS lambdasLooking back at my 2022Using CallKit - How to Integrate Voice and Video Calling Into iOS AppsHTTP/3 support for URLSessionTesting Apps with an iPhone and the CarPlay SimulatorTrap exit code (SIGINT, SIGTERM etc) in a Swift Package Executable CLIThe day my app got thousands of downloads and in-app unlocksIt has been a while since my previous episode. Recovering from Do iOS and then December happened. Holidays, some family illness. But I kept going in some capacity. Getting a new microphone is a big incentive to get going again.But I need your thoughts and input.Stream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer

Dec 26, 2022 • 45min
Azam Sharp on his Aggregate Model Architecture
Send us a textAzam and I discus some architectural ideas Azam has developed over the course of over a hundred sample codebases.Azam's blogAzam's article mentioned in the episode: Practical Mv Pattern CrudAzam's Udemy course: MV Design Pattern in iOS - Build SwiftUI Apps Apple's WayAzam on TwitterStream makes it easy for you to seamlessly integrate real-time experiences into your application. Check out their Swift tutorial to learn how you can get started adding video or in-app messaging to your apps! Lead Software Developer Learn best practices for being a great lead software developer.Support the showRate me on Apple Podcasts. Send feedback on SpeakPipeOr contact me on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@appforce1Support my podcast with a monthly subscription, it really helps.My book: Being a Lead Software Developer