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

Episode 332: Melissa & Ryan Cash

August 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 19 mins

adam baker, ajay, alto’s adventure, apple arcade, becoming steve jobs, brandon walkin, brian crawford, builtbysnowman, checkmark, circles, daylight, ester huybreghts, filipe, harry nesbitt, iphone, jordan, kid pix, llama, macworld, marketcircle, mastermind toys, mathijs demaeght, matt miller, melissa cash, playroom, pok pok, ryan cash, sarah blakely, shifts, simon, ski safari, snowman, soundtrack, spanx, stanford commencement, the game band, tiny wings, todd baker, toren borrowdale, turtle jacks, unity, zen mode

This week Tim chats with Melissa and Ryan Cash about Pok Pok and Snowman and their Apple Design Award winning apps, Pok Pok Playroom, Alto's Adventure and Alto's Odyssey. We discuss the origins of apps built by Snowman and the genesis of Pok Pok. As a bonus Ryan shares how to prepare an app for Apple Arcade.

Re-edited.

Episode 329: Best of MTJC: WWDC 2020 Goes to Eleven!

June 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 52 mins

148, 23 million, @state, a12x, airpods pro, alexsis, app clips, app library, apple park, apple silicon, aquafit, arm, arther c lark, avimov’s foundation, avkit, bartender 3, big sur, bixby creek bridge, bmw 5 series, canada, centripetal force, collectionviews, composable collectionview, congestion zones, contact tracing, covid-sheild, cycling routes, dancing, deququeconfiguredreusablecell, diffable data source, documentgroup, fitness, glances, green zones, grids, have i been p’owned, health & safety, homekit, interstate, ios 14, ipados, ireland, james dempsey and the breakpoints, justin trudeau, kayak, keynote, kicstart, kubaku, list, lycra, mac catalyst, mac os x public beta, macworld, mapview, memoji, micheal morecock, multiplatform template, myth adventures, newton, nike run club, on device, ottawa, picture in picture, port key, poul anderson, relativity, release notes happy hour, robert a heinlien, robert asprin, robot’s of dawn, santa cruz, sceneview, scribble, serenity caldwell, settings, seybold, shopify, sidebar, sign in with apple, siri, smart stack, spacial audio, spinal tap, spriteview, state highway, super power charging, swiftui, tesla, translation, u1 chip, uicollectionviewlist, uk, visual editing, voices that matter, watch party, watchos, web authn, what’s new in swiftui, widgets, windowgroup api, wwdc 2020, wwdc20 goes to 11, xcode 12

A re-run of our WWDC 2020 show. We follow up on iPad Pro shooting location, James Bond and centrifugal force, and macOS BS? A team of Shopify volunteers release Canada's COVID case-tracking app. ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world. We recap the WWDC 2020 Keynote, Platform State of the Union and a few WWDC sessions. Picks: Up Here in Canada, What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 14, Apple documentation for SwiftUI with SpriteKit, SceneKit, AVKit and MapKit.

Episode 323: Await Silicon MagSafe

January 23rd, 2021  |  1 hr 18 mins

45 rpm, app library, apple silicon, async await, badges, car play, completion handler, concurrency, corelleum, dante’s inferno, gen z, general hospital, hockeyapp, infinite loop, instacart, ios dev happy hour, linux, mac apps, macbook pro, maceffects, macworld, magsafe, malbogue, mchenry, notarize, nscodersto, parking, pico projector, pioneer, reagan, rosetta 2, samsung, santa barbara, santa clara, se/30, spockcast, swift, swiftui jam, test flight, touchbar, uber, ubuntu, unroll thread, wwdc, zvon

We fact check iPad storage and WWDC security. Follow up tackles App Library, and CarPlay wireless receivers. We discuss publishing Mac apps inside and outside the Mac App Store. Experimenting with Swift async and await pattern using Xcode. Uber’s near disaster jumping onto Swift in the early days (spoilers, without doing due diligence.) MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, and iPhone Rumors, Best of CES 2021. Picks: Linux on M1, Tips and Tricks to Set Up Your Apple M1 for Development, KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital, SwiftUI Jam, iOS Dev Happy Hour, MacEffects Custom CLEAR Case for Apple Macintosh Mac SE & SE/30.

Episode 304: WWDC 2020 Goes to Eleven!

June 27th, 2020  |  1 hr 52 mins

148, 23 million, @state, a12x, airpods pro, alexsis, app clips, app library, apple park, apple silicon, aquafit, arm, arther c lark, avimov’s foundation, avkit, bartender 3, big sur, bixby creek bridge, bmw 5 series, canada, centripetal force, collectionviews, composable collectionview, congestion zones, contact tracing, covid-sheild, cycling routes, dancing, deququeconfiguredreusablecell, diffable data source, documentgroup, fitness, glances, green zones, grids, have i been p’owned, health & safety, homekit, interstate, ios 14, ipados, ireland, james dempsey and the breakpoints, justin trudeau, kayak, keynote, kicstart, kubaku, list, lycra, mac catalyst, mac os x public beta, macworld, mapview, memoji, micheal morecock, multiplatform template, myth adventures, newton, nike run club, on device, ottawa, picture in picture, port key, poul anderson, relativity, release notes happy hour, robert a heinlien, robert asprin, robot’s of dawn, santa cruz, sceneview, scribble, serenity caldwell, settings, seybold, shopify, sidebar, sign in with apple, siri, smart stack, spacial audio, spinal tap, spriteview, state highway, super power charging, swiftui, tesla, translation, u1 chip, uicollectionviewlist, uk, visual editing, voices that matter, watch party, watchos, web authn, what’s new in swiftui, widgets, windowgroup api, wwdc 2020, wwdc20 goes to 11, xcode 12

We follow up on iPad Pro shooting location, James Bond and centrifugal force, and macOS BS? A team of Shopify volunteers release Canada's COVID case-tracking app. ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world. We recap the WWDC 2020 Keynote, Platform State of the Union and a few WWDC sessions. Picks: Up Here in Canada, What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 14, Apple documentation for SwiftUI with SpriteKit, SceneKit, AVKit and MapKit.

Episode 299: WWDC 2020 Wishlist

May 23rd, 2020  |  1 hr 35 mins

1000 cuts, a11y, abs, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, air power, apple consultant network, apple europe, apple glass, becky hansmeyer, beos, brontosaurus, chromium, deep double decent, dino-riders, find my app, float16, fluid framework, foot gun, hat block, hayward fault, home pod, hype cycle, intercom, ios 13.5, jack dorsey, jean louis gassee, joe rogen, jon prosser, leo dion, lidar, linux for windows, lost wax, macworld, memorial day, microsoft build, middle island, milliner, mortal kombat, multi pattern catch clauses, multiple trailing closures, object linking & embedding, ok production, open doc, pla, point pelee, polylactic acid, project catalyst, project reunion, raptors, san andres, split window, square, steve jobs, swamp of dispair, swift 5.3, swift package manager, swift to, ultimaker, victoria day, who wants to be a millionaire, work from home, xcode 11.5, zvon petric

We fact check Leo Dion, 3D printing with PLA and ABS. AskMTJC takes us down the rabbit hole from Hype Cycles to ML modeling. Who knew? There are 27 US states are partially north of Canada's southern point. We recap Microsoft Build 2020: Project Reunion will unify desktop and mobile, Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids, and bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10. What’s new in Swift 5.3? — take two. Becky Hansmeyer's WWDC 2020 Wishlist. Big Tech says, Work From Home For Rest Of Year. Apple details its approach to safety in retail stores, and plans to reopen more than 25 US locations next week. Leaker claims to have seen “Apple Glass” AR glasses, details how they’ll work. Facebook Shops is coming. Picks: Writing Great iOS Accessibility Labels, How to prepare for losing your programming job, Tim vs Apple Music and using multiple Home Pods, Tracking your iPhone.

This week's final pass edit was done on my Kitchen Home Pod.

Episode 293: Personal Protection Edition

April 11th, 2020  |  1 hr 32 mins

1000masks, 8d, abi stability, academy awards, apple, best buy, bill gates, captain pike, cbs all access, ces, cobol, collective, connecticut, covid-19 app, discovery, e3, edvard munch, emperor, face shields, feature freeze, fecal transport, fortran, go lang, grizzly bear, gumroad, harry kim, harry mudd, home pod, hype cycle, ibm 36, ios 13.4.1, ipad pro, iphone se, java, javascript, john krazinsky, john prine, kansas, klingon, lee krasner, locutis, lorca, lynda.com, macworld, magic keyboard, mohammed azam, naomi wildman, netflix, new jersey, picard, plulralsite, post mortem, poyo, quantum signature, raffi, rios, rust, ryan reynolds, salesforce, sandra bullock, seven of nine, show runner, simon allardice, so good news, sonic the hedgehog, spanish flu, spockcast, star trek, super user, swift, swiftui mvvm, technical debt, the irishman, the net, thrive health, track pad, uibutton, unimatrix zero, van gogh, viewrepresentable, worf, wwdc, xcode, youtube, zelda, zoom

We fact check on the Academy Awards and respond to Paul Wilkinson on reduced Home Pod pricing. Apple will produce 1M face shields per week for medical workers. Canada roles out a COVID-19 app. Apple Support Doc: Assemble and adjust your Face Shield. Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language so states can process unemployment claims. Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues. Zoom quickly fixes ‘malware-like’ macOS installer with new update. Apple’s new iPad Pro cuts off the microphone when its case is closed to prevent snooping . Find and copy Xcode device support files. All Microsoft events will be digital-only until July 2021. Advanced Scene Understanding in AR. We discuss LiDar iPhone 12 rumors and iPhone SE vs iPhone 9 after Rene Ritchie Vlogs about them. Nobody loves UIButton. Picks: FREE April: Gain Access to Online Developer, IT and Cyber Security Training, Art Transfer by Google lets you apply famous artists’ styles to your own photos, RIP John Prine, SwiftUI MVVM. After Show: Mark reviews Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Discovery.

Episode 288: The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised

March 7th, 2020  |  1 hr 15 mins

128 corridor, 1password, 8086, anime, apocalyse, argumentparser, atsui, authenticator, big dig, boston, bts, butterfly keyboard, byte conf, carbon, carbon fibre, cbc, clearview ai, conference, covid-19, developer relations, doritos, f8, facebook messanger, fetchedresultscontroller, fleets, golden ticket, google io, graphport, graphql, hired.com, hockey sticks, init(whatever:_), intel bunnies, ios architecture, isitcancelledyet, james dempsey, jason snell, json decode, library of congress, lottery, mac os classic, macbook, macbook pro 14, macworld, maple syrup, mattt, metro morning, ming-chi kuo, networking, pentium, project lightspeed, quartz2d, rcmp, regent height, remote working, santa clara county, short, sign in with apple, sqlite, sugar maple, sugarbush farms, telepresence, that conference, twitter, vermont, wash your hands, webex, wwdc 2020, wwdc labs, xcconfig

We fact check wooden hockey Sticks and 20M+ registered iOS developers. Google and Amazon limit employees’ travel because of coronavirus fears. Apple highlight's the history of MacBooks in anime. Jaime's search for Maple Syrup leads us to Sugarbush Farms VT. We discuss the obscure init(whatever:_) - GrafPort. Apple has blocked Clearview AI’s iPhone app for violating its rules. Canada’s RCMP admits to using Facial AI after denying it in Jan. The MacBook Pro 14 is predicated by Ming-Chi Kuo. What happens if (and when) Apple cancels WWDC 2020? Project LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger to be faster, smaller, and simpler. New site Xcode Build Settings by Mattt. James Dempsey's New Xcode Build System and BuildSettingExtractor. Hired.com’s 2020 State of Software Engineers. Picks: Swift.org - Announcing ArgumentParser, Is it cancelled yet? Paul Hudson "Wash your hands like you've been eating Doritos..." Updated Resources and Guidelines for Sign in with Apple. Cover art by Fyodor Bronnikov.

Episode 247: The Rental Economy

May 17th, 2019  |  54 mins 42 secs

adobe, affinity designer, affinity photo, air pods, air power, andy inakho, app store, app store subscriptions, apple park, apple store, apple t2, apple tv for ios, apple watch, becky hansmeyer, car2go, cascade lake x, chargers, china, cinemagraph, comcast, conf friends for wwdc, conspicuous disclaimer, creative cloud, cs6, cupertino city council, dave delong, dim tai fung, disney, dolby, flixel, garage band, gay pride, google playstore, griffin imic, hbo, hulu, iphone sdk, irig, logic pro x, lyft, mac pro, macworld, mark pavlidis, mini keg, monitor, mpow, nbc universal, netflix, night of dim sum, nomad, parties, photoshop for ipad, podcasting, power beats pro, promoted subscriptions, rainbow bandstand, rental economy, rouge podcaster, samsung smart tv, showtime, starbucks, steve jobs, stock market, supreme court, tacow, tariffs, today at apple, trials, uber ipo, upgrades, watchos, web objects, whatsapp, zip car

In 2011, Steve Jobs presented Apple Park plans. App Store Pricing. Apple Launches TV App with iOS 12.2. Adobe opens Photoshop for iPad beta signups. WhatsApp discovers 'targeted' surveillance attack. The US Supreme Court allows iPhone users to sue over AppStore monopoly. New Pride faces added to Apple Watch. US/China Trade War may affect Apple Chargers and Cases. Mac Pro iffy renderings leaked. Picks: Today At Apple adds podcasting class, Adobe warns using older versions of their apps may open users to lawsuits, and Nomad base station wireless hub, Mark Pavlidis - App Store Subscriptions – Condensed Edition.

Episode 233: A Trusted Advisor

February 9th, 2019  |  1 hr 8 mins

android studio, angela ahrendts, apple experience, brian johnston, bud lite, burberry, clerks, codewerks, dante, david okun, dogma, drigend, duns, dynamic linker, eclipse, go boom!, group facetime, hello kitty, imac pro, jay and silent bob, kevin smith, macworld, mario party, mfi, mobile studio pro, new madrid, nintendo switch, palm phone, playstation network, randal, redpark, rene richie, secret stash, sega nomad, services, sinbad, smash brothers, steam, sundance, super bowl, technology luddite, tin foil hat, trusted advisor, visual code studio, xbox live, xcloud game streaming

We follow up on Apple's statement about the Group FaceTime bug. Microsoft is releasing an Xbox Live SDK for iOS, Android and Switch. Angela Ahrendts, SVP of Apple Retail is leaving. Apple will waive developer fees for non-profits. iOS 12.2 will limit Accelerometer and Gyroscope access in Safari. Apple expands Animoji. We chat about a Dave Okun's Month of Swift without Xcode. Picks: Go Boom!, Netflix JavaScript Talks: Making Bandersnatch, Codewerks, DYLD_PRINT_STATISTICS, Can a phone save you from a phone?, RedPark - Ethernet for iphone / ipad.