More Than Just Code podcast - iOS and Swift development, news and advice

Episode 356: Leo Dion

January 31st, 2023  |  1 hr 18 mins

360 idev, 360 stump, amiga, ash furrow, celine dion, deep dish swift, dionne quintuplets, disk doubler, eggs benedict, facebook, floppy disk, grace hopper, healthkit, hearttwitch, indiana jones, ipad, jay freeman, lansing michigan, lzw compression, marcel dionne, mark german, mastodon, mini vmac, myspace, objective-c, patch, punch card, raiders of the last arc, scsi, server side swift, swift to, temple of doom, twitter, unique ability, univac, vapor, virtualization

This week Leo Dion joins Tim to discuss his career as Server-Side Swift developer, speaker and podcaster. They discuss some computer and development history, the future of Twitter, as well as, the upcoming Reality Pro AR/VR headset rumoured to be coming from Apple. Leo makes gets an early start on the best sandwich.

Episode 349: WWDC22 - Regex for the Rest of Us

June 11th, 2022  |  2 hrs 35 mins

360 idev, alexander graham bell, app intents, applepay later, async await, awesome list, bnpl, boulder co, camo, carekit, carplay, chester, coda, codemobile uk, command builder, continuity, datascanner api, desktop class, deskview, dictation, digital lounge, domain specific language, dragon natural speaking, eddie cue, epic, family sharing, fido alliance, find replace, focus builder, geforce now, geolocation, geometry reader, gibson app, halide, healthkit, hig, ios 16, ios dev uk, jesse ventura, layout protocol, linda dong, live activities, live text, lock screen, look around, macbook air m2, macos ventura, magsafe, mapkit, maryland, navigationstack, nfc, package plugins, parascope, passkeys, paul hudson, pcalc, prescriptions, procreate, quicknote, regex, regex for the rest of us, room model, rsa, scankit, serenity caldwell, setapp, share sheets, shareplay, simple, sir adam beck, sirikit, slopes, stage manager, steve westgarth, swift playgrounds, swiftui, swiftui charts, touchbar, transit, twostraws, undo, usb charger, usb-c, vectonator, viewthatfits, wallet, watchos, widget kit, work focus, wwdc, xcode cloud

This week we cover the WWDC 2022 Keynote and Platform State of the Union. We're joined by Friend of the Show Joe Cieplinski. We fact check Sir Adam Beck and Steve Westgarth. We discuss Awesome lists and a calculator on the Lock Screen. We get into the new HIG, WWDC Keynote, iOS 16, Apple Watch and watchOS 9, Mac hardware and M2, macOS Ventura, iPadOS 16, Platforms State of the Union, Xcode Cloud, Swift, SwiftUI, System Experience, MapKit, WeatherKit, Live Text API and Data Scanner API. Picks: WWDC Community links updated for 2022, return of the UK iOS conferences, iOS Dev UK and Codemobile UK, Hello Swift Charts

Episode 310: So It Must Be True

August 9th, 2020  |  1 hr 34 mins

120hz, 1password, 360 idev, 548, alan cross, apple, apple gift card, apple silicon, apple store, apple store badge, appletalk, automater, bitcoin, citizen band, cold wallet, compuserve, core data, covid alert, derived data, disk warrior, drobo, forecast, fusion drive, greg joswiak, handle, imac 27inch, ipad, ipad pro, iphone xr, isight camera, jack henry, jeff bezos, las vegas golden knights, lidar, macbook air superdrive, maccatalyst, maker fair, marc andre fluery, mark stone, mobile notts, murder, nano texture, nhl, nottingham, nstoolbar, parallelogram, persistence container, phil schiller, pod, powerbook g4, preprocesser directive, quicktime, rhombus, shawn marsden, shot on iphone, spockcast, star trek lower decks, twitter hack, xserve

We fact check on 548 and the height of the iPhone 5. In the follow up Apple confirms that new iPhones models won't arrive in September. Apple has a record breaking third quarter on Mac and iPad sales. Apple introduces "Everything Apple" gift card. iPhone 12 prices leaked and iOS 14 beta reveals a 5.4 inch iPhone 12. 1Password roles out on Linux. Tim reviews the MacCatalyst Tutorial. Canada's Covid Alert app is out on Android and iOS. In the main show we cover Grouping Array Elements With Dictionary. Apple introduces a new Intel iMac 27 inch. Setting up a Core Data store for unit tests. Apple replaces longtime marketing chief Phill Schiller. Picks: Apple Store badges are back with Memoji. Deleting Derived Data with Automator. Fleury, Stone join forces to shoot Apple ad on iPhone 11 Pro. Fun: Footage taken in an Apple Store back in 2003 looks…weird. Forecast: A must-have tool for Mac podcasters.

Episode 291: Social Distance Edition

March 28th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

10m masks, 360 idev, acer, alouettes, anchorage, apple store, ar, back to my mac, be safe, beatles, bill gates, blender, cbs all access, combine, craig federighi, danny boyle, discovery, east york, eaton centre, eb games, ecg, el paso, etobicoke, everrett, fairview mall, framingham, google io, hololens, hosts, hovereffect, ios 13.4, ipad pro, ipados 13.4, john lennon, juno, karaoke, keith urban, key path, key value coding, lead developer, logitech create keyboard, macos 10.15.4, magic keyboard, manchester, matt neuburg, montreal, mr robot, oculus, onhover, patrick stewart, robocop, santana row, screen, social distancing, spockcast, star trek: picard, swift 5.2, swiftui, talking dead, texas, tim cook, tracking, unity, unreal, valleyfield, vr, westworld, yesterday

We follow up on the Alouettes and our own social distancing. Tim Cook takes to Twitter and announces 10 million masks from Apple. Google IO is completely cancelled. Daring Fireball shares the iPad 2020 AR experience from Apple. Bill Gates called the next pandemic five years ago. Craig Federighi explains how and we deep dive on the new iPad Trackpad support. Apple updates the Safari anti-tracking technology. The App Store expands to 20 new countries. iOS and iPadOS 13.4 are out with mouse and trackpad support. We also look at the extra features included. We look at ARKit 3.5. Swift 5.2 Released! Picks: LeadDev Live by LeadDev, Gatsby Web Creators, Yesterday (2019), Introducing Combine.

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Episode 200: Auto Bicentennial Selfies

June 23rd, 2018  |  1 hr 38 mins

#selector, 360 idev, @objc, acorn 6, action target, airbnb, alderbrook resort, app store connect, apple pay, atlanta, autos, back bay, beoing, bicentennial, cal tech, calderwood pavillion, century 21 world’s fair, cgp grey, charles river, coke, coursera, cruisers, cruze, deliveries app, delta, design talk, disk utility, dringend, ethernet, fatslane ci, freemium, hello internet, hynes, imac pro, indie developer, ipad, iphone, life of a button, mac mini, mac pro, marta, marzipan, network.framework, one if by land. two if by sea., option boot, p.a.t.h., qualities of design, react native, roku, selfies, sparse partition, spockcast, steve jobs 2011, swift, swiftfest, swiftshot, t station, taylor swift, testflight, tim cook, top ten videos, toronto, tresmont, ttc, unicorn pin, union station, wall-e, watchos, we rise, what new in arkit 2

It's our 200th episode and all regular hosts and guest hosts are here. We follow up on the lack of IT sessions at WWDC, the future of self driving cars, a test install of Mojave with your existing home folder. "Does Apple Even Care About the Mac?" is the question asked on Vector. We discuss a proof of concept Xcode for iPad! We touch on the "upgrade pricing" new on the App Store. Tim's annual Top 10 WWDC 2018 Videos is out. Airbnb sunsetting their use of React Native and Marzipanify and iOSMac are brought in by Greg. We talk about our 200 or so episodes. Picks: iOS developer skills matrix, Random numbers in Swift, Swift Diagnostics: #warning and #error.

Episode 197: Dub Dub San Jose: WWDC Crystal Ball

June 2nd, 2018  |  1 hr 40 mins

1password, 360 idev, aaron douglas, agilebits, airplay 2, altconf, animoji, ashley nelson-hornstein, ats, auttomatic, basso, borg, buddy build, burrito, castle, cherry picking, chip & pin, clifford stoll, cloud kit, curtis herbert, dark mode, dispatch queue, drag and drop, dub dub san jose, eddie cue, energy efficiency, ethernet adapter, fastlane, felix krause, flappy birds, flappy filipe, font, git k, home pod, https, hybrid apps, icloud, imac pro, imessage, ish, john gruber, jony ive, kgb, kline bottles, letraset, loop bash, marco armet, mchenry, metal, metal by tutorials, mobius, moscone, ncr, nova, panic, qos, quebec, rebase, rob napier, safari, san francisco, san jose, saroush, secure id, security kit, selfie, siri, siri kit, size class, sjmacindie, source tree, susan kare, tencode ten, tiny wings, tmobile, true depth camera, typeface, vesa, watch faces, wey han, wireless debugging, workflow, wwdc, wwdc parties, xcode 3d, xcode bots

We are joined by Greg Heo as we look ahead and suggest what Apple may introduce at WWDC 2018. We follow up on the Command key icon, castle connection, as well as Clifford Stoll and the Cockoo's Egg. Jaime uncovers ⌘+Ctrl+Shift+H to find a methods callers. Tim relays early experience drawing and designing typefaces in the early days of Mac. AirPlay 2 gives the HomePod the ability to have multi-room and stereo audio. HomePod launching in Canada, France, and Germany. Felix Krause thinks apps should be in a network sandbox. App Insight attempts to expose 3rd party framework use. Genius Bar Broke an iMac Pro. We lay down our best guesses about where Apple will go with WWDC 2018. Picks: How to debug your mobile hybrid app on iOS, Beacon - Signal Availability by Ashley Nelson-Hornstein, Prioritize Work with Quality of Service Classes.