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Send us a textMarin and I discus how 2022 went for him and what his plans are for early 2023.(It is dataTile, a smart developer tool that reads your app's logs from the Xcode Simulator in real time and displays your debug data in a beautiful, bold UI.You can find Marin online at:https://underplot.com/On Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@icanzilbLearn more about dataTile https://underplot.com/dataTile/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

Send us a textPol, a senior iOS developer working on the iPlayer app by the BBC. He loves sharing content and writing about all things mobile development and Swift.He also writes on his blog. https://www.polpiella.dev/Follow him on Mastodon. Or Twitter.He did his first conference talk at Do iOS in 2022. I'm sure Pol will share that link once it becomes available. He did an amazing talk titled "Fantastic Swift Tools and where to find them".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

Send us a textThis is Alexander, he and Drew created the note taking app Agenda. A Mac and iOS focussed App.Learn more about Alexander, how he got to creating Agenda and what motivates him day to day.To learn more about Alexander and his product:Visit Agenda.com (referral link, it extends my Agenda update window)Learn more about PapersOn 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

Send us a textIn this episode, I’m going to talk about:When does a SwiftUI Environment get retained?Animated Launch Screen in SwiftUIA Guided Tour for SwiftUI ForEach StructureWhat is the difference between List and ForEach in SwiftUIHow Does Swift Concurrency Prevents Thread Explosions?Building custom layout in SwiftUI. BasicsUsing SwiftUI Effects Library: How to Add Particle Effects to iOS AppsIntroducing - Swift cheatsheet - The.Swift.Dev.This episode is something special. According to the stats of my podcast hosting provider, this is my 200th episode. And what a ride I had between this episode and my previous one. My last episode was published two and a half weeks ago. And a lot of things happened since then.I was still preparing for Do iOS on November 3 and 4.Had a weekend I kept going over my notes for Do iOS.Then the Do iOS workshop started with Daniel Steinberg and I was collecting and bringing some of the material we needed for Do iOS to Amsterdam. For lunch, I stopped at the workshop to check in on things and talk to a few people to get the vibe of the crowd at the workshop. It was pretty good.Then it was November 8. Do iOS day. I was the stage host the entire day, but we started with onboarding everyone at the door. I spoke a few words with all attendees at registration. Then an entire day of talks, making sure catering was taken care of, taking care of little issues. And making sure we kept a good pace. At the end we had a nice social drink with all attendees and a typical small Dutch snack.Evening of the first conf day, we had a sort of casual diner, and it got a bit out of hand. We raided a restaurant and stressed out kitchen staff with such a big unannounced group. We smoothed this one over by indicating to prioritize other tables and to serve all my guest's food when ready. So we all ate a bit out of 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

Send us a textIn this episode, I’m going to talk about:Introducing Rollouts by RunwayA menu bar only macOS app using AppKitHow to check for network connection and present an alert in SwiftUIUnderstanding different cache policies when working with URLRequest in SwiftHandling never finishing async functions in Swift package testsHow to Get Push Notification while iOS App is in ForegroundDon’t forget, you can buy me a coffee. Marco Eidinger did just that, buy me a coffee. Thanks a lot Marco.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

Send us a textCounting down to Do iOS. At the time of this recording, I have almost two weeks to go, but it sure feels like it is happening tomorrow. Sending out messages to all attendees and speakers, making sure roll-up banners are ordered, putting together staff briefings for the Do iOS team and for the catering team, and preparing "filler" slides for when speakers are switching. Hotel bookings for team members. It is just a lot of small bits that all need to happen. I must say I feel very well organized and prepared. I think in large part that's due to my note-taking in Obsidian. Recently I showed what I have for notes to a colleague of mine and he was quite taken aback by the amount of stuff I write down. And I feel like I only capture half of all I want to capture.In this episode, I’m going to talk about:Thoughts on SwiftUI vs UIKitThree Ways to Refactor Massive SwiftUI ViewsMastering NavigationSplitView in SwiftUIHow to create NSManagedObject subsclasses for Core Data entities in XcodeRefactoring Swift: Best Practices to succeedStream 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

Send us a text...here  I come. KLM permitting.Getting ready to go to Swift Leeds.Finally received that Model-100 keyboard I kept on talking about. This thing is just amazing. More on that when I have used the device a bit more.Also, the video of my talk at 360iDev is now available too. And if you are still looking for training on aSync/Await, Daniel Steinberg will be in Amsterdam on November 7th.Now I am off to SwiftLeeds, if you are there too, come say hi, I'll most likely be near the Stream table.In this episode, I’m going to talk about:How to add Keyboard Shortcuts in SwiftUIMastering NavigationStack in SwiftUI. NavigationPathUsing the dismiss action from the SwiftUI environmentSwiftUI View That FitsAccordion in SwiftUI - DisclosureGroup ExplorationsApple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 16System Programming Interfaces (SPI) in Swift ExplainedMemory management for async/await and tasks in SwiftDeveloper guide on the iOS file systemAlternate App Icon Configuration in XcodeWhere View.task gets its main-actor isolation fromStream 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

Send us a textFull on prep mode for Do iOS by now. What is it. Just 5 or 6 weeks remaining. When I am preparing this episode, there were just 2 tickets remaining. So we will have a full house. I was also looking into putting together a workshop the day before the conference and that has now been put together thanks to the gracious support of Jeremy Barger. You might know him as TheSwiftNomad on Twitter. He is looking for people to take a look at his Swift Developer Academy. So take a look.Articles in this episode:Swift’s print(), debugPrint(), String(reflecting:), Mirror(reflecting:) and dump()Side Projects: 10 Tips for being successfulDeadlocks in Swift explained: detecting and solvingHow to manage lifecycle events in SwiftUI iOS applicationsviewDidLoad() in SwiftUIWhy your Xcode version still matters with Module StabilityDisplaying live activities in iOS 16Oh and I am still waiting on that keyboard…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

Send us a textI share my thoughts about a piece of hardware. Progress on the Do iOS conference and my anxiety about a delivery.In this episode I’m going to talk about:Editable navigation titles in SwiftUI on iOS 16Dynamic Island (and Live Activities): Quick start tutorialEnabling Concurrency warnings in Xcode 14SwiftUI zIndex: Everything you need to knowAccessing UIHostingController from a SwiftUI viewNew BackgroundTask in SwiftUI and How to Test ItiOS developer guide on the main aspects of Core DataI also mention:Do iOSA BenQ ScreenbarAnd the Model-100Stream 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

Send us a textIt is already two weeks since my previous episode. The one I did in the hotel room in Denver. It really feels like a distant memory already. So much stuff happened again in two weeks. My son's bedroom furniture got delivered. He now has a pirate themed bedroom, inclusing a shark desk, ship-bed / bed-ship and a treasure chest. I am not jealous at his room. Nope not at all. You can imagine we are now in a talk-like-a-pirate day streak here at home.Last week my voice was quite bad, I had a weird cold that was not causing too much discomfort. Except for my voice. It was raspy and if I talked too much I was coughing a lot. Not ideal for a podcast recording. So I decided to skip. I had plenty of other things to do anyway. Like a conference…I am super excited to announce that for Do iOS on November 8 and 9, tickets are available, we have the first 6 speakers announced.This week’s articles.Generate a man page for a Swift command-line toolIntroducing MarkCodableExploring SwiftUI Redraw Behavior with Instruments - Holy SwiftAccessibility in SwiftUI explained for UIKit developers - SwiftLeeVoiceOver navigation improvement tips for SwiftUI apps - SwiftLeeThe SwiftUI render loopHow to build a configurable widget with WidgetKit and SwiftUIMost important is to go to do-ios.com for all information related to Do iOS. You can also follow the conference on Twitter, it has a very easy twitter handle: iOSConfStream 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