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

Episode 359: WWDC 2023 Lottery

April 7th, 2023  |  1 hr 44 mins

1password, a11, adobe, advanced data protection, affirm, apple pay, apple pay peter, ar, arkit, async await, async cafe, async sequence, author, big mountain studio, bitcoin, cabel sasser, chase center, chatgpt, chin, code highlighting, combine, core data, covid, daniel steinberg, deeplinking, eric clapton, fizz buzz, golden state warriors, google glass, hide my email, holo lens, icloud keychain, ios 17, ipados, iphone x, james gunn, keynote, legacy contact, molly tuttle, navigationstack, nspredicate, passkeys, paula abdul, peter gabriel, pin code, ricky mondello, robert smith, sap center, seatgeek, seconds out, shakti, south korea, spockcast, steve hackett, stubhub, swift playgrounds, swiftui, taylor swift, the cure, ticketmaster, toronto, trailing closure syntax, universal control, verification, wwdc lottery, wwdc23

This week Jaime, Mark and Tim discuss the WWDC 2023 Lottery and what we expect to see at the June 5 WWDC 23 Keynote. The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS. Should you enable Apple's Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. Apple Pay is now available in South Korea. Apple introduces Apple Pay Later. Apple Passwords Deserve An App. Ability to change iCloud password with only user’s PIN code. Our WWDC 2023 predictions and wish list. iOS 17 Rumored to Drop Support for iPhone X, First-Generation iPad Pro, and More. Picks: 30th Anniversary Mac icons, Awesome newsletters for iOS and Swift developers in 2022, Visually learn Core Data in SwiftUI picture book, Understanding Swift Trailing Closure Syntax, Become A SwiftUI Navigation Pro, Syntax Color - How and why I present code the way I do.

Episode 334: James Thomson

August 21st, 2021  |  47 mins 54 secs

3d graphics, 42, apple, arkit, arthur dent, bbedit, carbon, catalyst, codewarrior, dice, dock, douglas adams, drag thing, ebay, fetch, flint center, floppy, frontier, hitchhiker’s guide, imac, incomparable, infomac, jason snell, jeff minter, kagi, lego galaxy explorer, lidar, mac mac dev, mac os x, mike hurley, objective-c, pcalc, rising tide, steve jobs, swift, swiftui, system 6, terry prachett, think pascal, tidbits, total party kill, wwdc

James Thomson joins us to talk about developing apps for Apple platforms. James is the creator of PCalc - the official calculator app of MTJC, Drag Thing and his latest app Dice by PCalc. James has been successfully writing apps longer than the iMac has been a thing, worked for Apple, had Douglas Adams beta test his apps, and has been a successful indie developer since the early 90's.

Episode 330: WWDC 2021 - It's like ARC for Threading

June 11th, 2021  |  2 hrs 18 mins

@viewbuilder, accessibility, accessibilityrepresentation, actors, airplay on mac, apfs, app library, apple card, apple records, apple script, arkit, astra zenica, async/await, attributed strings, august lock, automator, avkit, beatles, beats powerbeats3, best in class, better call saul, boarding pass, buddy build, buttons, cannery row, circle ci, compileswift, continuous integration, cowbell, craig federigi, dave verwer, demystifying swiftui, dev tools lounge, developer documentation, digital id, digital lounges, disney park passes, dispatch queues, docc, empowerapps, facetime, focus, formatters, foundation, gcd, gitlab, grammar agreement, hand pose, healthkit, home kit, home pod mini, hotel keys, huell babineaux, imac m1, instagram, ios 15, ios dev directory, ipados 15, it’s like arc for threading, jazzy, john steinbeck, jordan morgen, json selector, lidar, live text, mac os 8, macintosh system software, maps, mare of easton, matter, mkbhd, monterey, multitasking, nest doorbell camera, notifications, obj, object capture, ocr, platform state of the union, play-doh touch, privacy, private relay, qr code, quick note, quicktime vr, rakuten, rotor, safari, sal saghoian, sfsymbols, shareplay, shazamkit, shortcuts, sign in with apple, siri intercom, sortdescriptors, sosumi, sound classifier, source docs, spacial audio, square reader, string(localized: ), studio gibley, swift concurrency, swift package manager, swift playgrounds, table, tablecolumn, testflight for the mac, tsa, u1, universal control, usdz, visual debugger for metal, wallet, watch party, weather app, widgets, wwdc, wwdc keynote, wwdc rumors, xcode cloud

We are joined by Evan K Stone and Leo Dion as we talk about the WWDC Keynote and the Platform State of the Union sessions. We fact check on Astra Zenica shots, and follow up on Sosumi, Apple product reviews, struggles with Apple Card, noisy audio while running Xcode, and people annoyed that they sold their M1's ahead of WWDC. Picks: Leo Dion's Orchard Nest site, PlayDoh Touch Shapes Studio, JSON Selector Generator, Jordan Morgan’s Best In Class iOS App Book, Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID).

Episode 325: Live With the Pain

April 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 26 mins

1password, @appstorage, apple card, apple one, apple silicon, apple watch, arkit, astrazenica, charles proxy, clubhouse, collectionview list, credit, dhh, face mask, free-for.dev, goldman sacks, hudson, interac, ios 14.5 beta 6, ipad pro, iphone, jenkins, macbook pro 16, many moons, mashable, mwt, open source, oracle, oscars, oura ring, paul hudson, pfizer, protocols, siri, size classes, steven curtis, studeapp, swiftui, ted lasso, tracking, watch party, webex, wwdc21, xcode, xcode-tips

We're on Clubhouse as MTJC iOS Development and we follow up on our two Clubhouse events. We follow up with 5 iPhone Hacks like unlocking your iPhone with a face mask. The Apple Card doesn’t actually discriminate against women, investigators say. Apple-funded Stanford study concludes Apple Watch can be used to measure frailty. Apple won’t give Siri a female-sounding voice by default anymore. Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore. WWDC21 date has been set and we discuss what we'd like to see. Picks: Free for developers, Xcode tips repo, Updated iOS App Dev Tutorials, Protocol Oriented Programming with Swift 5, CustomStringConvertible, SwiftUI by Tutorials 3rd Edition.

Episode 279: The Trough of Disillusionment

December 21st, 2019  |  1 hr 54 mins

1password, 64-bit a7, air pods, air power, amiga, angela arehns, apfs, apple card, apple music, apple news, apple park, apple pay, apple pencil, apple store, apple tv, apple watch series 5, appletv apps, arkit, atari 800, atp, basic, bbedit, beats, brian cox, butterfly switch, c++, carekit, cdev, christmas story, classroom kit, commodore pet, continuity, coreml, cupertino, disktop, eaton centre apple store, et, faceid, fork, gremlins, home pod, homekit, hype cycle, ibm, imac pro, inits, ios 13.3, ios 7, ios in the car, ipad mini, ipad pro, ipados, iphone 11, iphone 11 pro, iphone 4, iphone 5c, iphone 6 plus, iphone se, iphone x, keyboard, kitura, lifelabs, lightening, mac mini, mac osx lion, mac pro, macbook, macbook air, macbook pro 16, macbook pro retina, macintosh ii, macos, maps, mavericks, movies that made us, multi finder, national lampoon, new zealand herald, nfc, picard, plateau of productivity, powermac 7100, privacy, rene richie, rf modulator, rick and morty, ring camera, rocky horror picture show, router, scott forestall, server side swift, short trek, shortcuts, simon syneck, siri, slope of enlightenment, star wars, steve jobs theater, swift for good, swift playgrounds, swift.org, swiftui, tcc, the goonies, the trough of disillusionment, today at apple, totp, toys that made us, transparency consent control, uwb, voice control, walt mossburg, watchos, webauthn, wwdc, xeon, yubikey

As the 2010's end, we debate when the decade ends. We fact check iOS 13.3's fix on UWB bug and ATP increments. We follow up on TCC, and the $100K Mac Pro. iDevices get key-based protection, webAuthn, IBM Workgroup Updates on Swift.org, Hype Cycles, and a cheaper Apple Arcade cost are also covered. We look back at the last 10 years of Apple innovation, news and changes. Amazon, Google, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard. Picks: Swift For Good, Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows.

Episode 227: They're Everywhere! They're Everywhere!

December 29th, 2018  |  1 hr 6 mins

accessibility, adam armstrong, affinity designer, airplay, amend, app store, appl, apple give back, apple music, apple stock, apple store, arkit, astropad studio, austin, bendgate, beyond meat, boxing day, buddy build, bullwinkle & rocky, charles proxy for ios, clip studio paint, compensation, cost of living, coursera, create ml, csis, denver, downton abbey, dudley do-right, equity compensation, escape key, flack, fourier analysis, gdpr, ghostery lite, home alone, home pod, ibm watson, ipad 9.7, ipad pro, iphone os sdk, logitech crayon, luna display, macbook air 2018, machine learning, marathon, mcafee, memoji, mini vmac, minimoog model d, mp3, neuroplasticity, nsnorth, pcalc, promo codes, rcmp, require attention, san jose, seattle, skydio r1, stanley cup, susan kare, suzanne vega, testflight, this is your brian on music, token, tom’s diner, tunnel bear, turi create, uber, vesting, wwdc 2018, xcode treasures

We fact check on CSIS, overtime hockey, defeating Face ID, and git commit --amend. #askMTJC brings up promo codes for IAP and the bands on the Stanley Cup. Apple stock sees its best performance in five years. The main topic is top paying tech companies in 2018 and comparative compensation vs cost of living. We review the highlights of the More Than Just Code podcast in 2018. We also choose our top picks for 2018. Picks: Google Home Alone

Episode 184: Piercing the Veil

February 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 7 mins

11.2.6, 1password, alan downey, altered carbon, apple, apple park, arkit, astropad hq, astropad studio, azure, bluemix, computer literacy, cryptocurrency, docker, doping, duck, errors & omissions, gamplaykit, google home, hockey, home brew, homepod, huawei, ios 11, iosref, iphone x, jupiter notebooks, lcc, light saber effect, maltese falcon, mentor, miracle on ice, notch, notes, objective-c, olympics, piercing the veil, python, raymond chandler, richard k morgan, roundabout matt ronge, safe area, samsung, scene editor, scenekit, short track speed skating, skydio r1, spritekit, strategy analytics, swift, swift playground, the big sleep, what is architecture

We start out with news that Apple will require new apps to be written with iOS 11 and iPhone X support. Apple also has gained half of all smart phone sales for the first time, in spite of recent rumors of an iPhone X sales short fall. We look at 1Password, it's support of cryptocurrency and tips and tricks for 1Password organization. We discuss whether learning to program is getting harder. We also open discussion about whether software developer and consultants need errors and omissions insurance. In the after show we look at the HomePods adoption. Picks: Astropad Studio, What is the duck of productivity? and iOS Quick Reference for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

Photo: Running Fence by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1976

Episode 175: Get Off My Lawn!

December 22nd, 2017  |  1 hr 26 mins

aaron, animal crossing, apple configurator, arkit, battery, bleeding edge, blurred line, boxing day, cyber dog, derailment, han solo, imac pro, inits & cdevs, loot boxes, monster truck ar app, mpvolumecontrol, ntsb, open doc, phonegap, pocket camp, power pc, qi, rapsody, rockem sockem robots, system 7, templated apps, tuning, xamarin

We're joined by Tammy Coron who regales us with her own iPhone X experience. We look at a tip on using XCTest and console to debug UI. You can use Apple Configurator 2.6 to restore a bricked iMac Pro. We debate Apple's undocumented battery tuning on older iPhones. We also look into revised guidelines on templated apps for business and the use of loot boxes. We also discuss the future of combined iOS and macOS where users may be able to run the same app on either platform. Picks: Awesome-CoreML-Models: Largest list of models for Core ML (for iOS 11+), Awesome-ARKit, Clip Studio Paint EX iOS.

Episode 167: Death By Design

October 28th, 2017  |  1 hr 15 mins

apple store app, arkit, bitcoin, block chain, calculator app, death by design, foxcon, ios, ios 11, iphone x, preorder, quick start, reclaiming, recycling, rogers, theodolite, version

We start this week's show with a discussion about preordering the iPhone X. We follow up with the Quick Start method for migrating your identity to a new iOS device. We also follow up on predictions of iPhone X supply rumors. Death By Design is a documentary about the creation and disposal of all the electronic devices we crave and their toll on some societies and the environment. Jaime lightens the discussion with a look a the percentage of games using ARKit. Picks: Theodolite, iOS 11 Bug: Typing 1+2+3 Quickly in the Calculator App Won't Get You 6, Face Tracking with ARKit.

Episode 164: Running Down a Dream

October 7th, 2017  |  1 hr 22 mins

arkit, bondi beach, felix krause, ios 11, nslocationalwaysandwheninuseusagedescription, pink floyd, popsicle stick grenade, privacy, safari webviewcontroller, swift, tom petty, uirequireddevicecapabilities, watch lte, waters

We answer #askMTJC posts on Bondi pronunciation and popsicle stick App Store logo. We follow up on changes to the Safari Web ViewController, and privacy changes in iOS 11. We also follow up on a review of the Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE. More information on designing and supporting for the new iPhone X sizes and a large roundup on iPhone X features is presented. Finally we follow up on UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities which sets the required support for ARKit on the App Store. We discuss the call for Apple to activate FM chips by the FCC. We quickly cover Google's product announcement. We discuss Felix Krause's addition for detecting location by using information in a user's Photos. Picks: iOS Architecture Generator, Code Folding in Xcode 9, and NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription. In the after show we Jaime's talk at Swift Cloud Workshop as well as Amazon's search for a second head quarters.