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

Episode 311: A Big Long Wire

August 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 33 secs

app store, apple arcade, apple game frameworks, asynchronous, attest api, big sur public beta, cabbage town, collisions, concurrency, dispatchqueue, facebook portal, fitbit, fizz buzz, gameplay kit, gaming, gcd, google maps, google stadia, loblaws, localization, mac pro wheels, microsoft teams, nemo, notification center, nsoperations, owc, paper by 53, physics, piggly wiggly, plurals, qualcomm, queen’s park, race condition, russian, safeway, scribbl.io, scribble, spritekit, tammy coron, threading, watchos 7 public beta, wearos, xcloud, zoom.us, собака

We missed the 6th anniversary of the show! This week we fact check early phone exchanges. In the follow up Apple rolls out Big Sur Public Beta. Third party Mac Pro wheels. Apple's watchOS Public Beta. Google reintroduces Maps on Apple Watch. Verify your app’s integrity with the new App Attest API. Decoding Apple’s Statement to Business Insider Regarding Xbox Game Pass. iOS Interview Questions and Answers for Senior Developers Part 4 - Concurrency. Picks: New beta book - Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Build 2D Games with SpriteKit & Swift, Scribble on iPadOS, Plurals Localized in iOS.

Episode 262: The Evil Geniuses Podcast

August 25th, 2019  |  1 hr 11 mins

2112, abby jackson, amygdala, anchorman, apple card, apple tv+, apple watch event, arbitrations, arcade, bitbucket, buckethead, c++, casey affleck, ceramic watch, chase, cinema strangiato, cocoa love, cocos2d, combine, cvs, denim, dropbox, duckduckgo, duckie, eliza, ghostery lite, git, goldman sacks, graham lee, home-brew, leather, linus torvalds, mac tv, mercurial, morning show, neil peart, netgear, news room, nickelback, no late fee, passes, paul hudson, paul rudd, pippin, powerline network, praxis, preforce, rubber duck, rush, sccs, setlist.fm, south park, spritekit, subversion, swift to, the evil geniuses club, this is halloween, trailer park boys, tubular bells, wallet, wcag, woodstock, xanadu

We follow up on Woodstock's 50th anniversary, power line networking, semantic developers, and Domnio's appeal to the Supreme Court. Apple TV+ will launch in November with a free trial. Apple's Arcade gaming system will also debut with a free trial. The Apple Card has launched for all users in the US. New ceramic and titanium watches revealed in watchOS 6 beta. We discuss the cost of DropBox's use of common code for iOS and Android. We dig into Git version 2.23 highlights and Bitbucket sunsets Mercurial support. Picks: Duckie, 22 short tests of Combine – Part 1: Protocols, SwiftTO videos & photos.

Episode 249: The WWDC Over Under

June 1st, 2019  |  1 hr 44 mins

a round, abi stability, alexa, apollo 11, app store, app store connect, arcade, beacon, bobby orr, bruins, burritos, clive thompson, coders, conffriends, confirmation bias, core data, core ml 3, cortana, costco, create ml ios, create ml2, creative cloud, dave verwer, diffing, dropbox, dubdub+, ec2, eddie cue, embrace, facebook, fitbitpay, flipboard, gambling, gamekit, github, google home, habitant, in app purchase, ios, ios 13 dark mode, iosdevjobs, iosdevweekly, ipad, iphone se, jonathan kuelein, keynote, luna display, mark pavlidis, marzipan preview, mobileme, mta, multiple users, music and tv, namrata banekar, nes classic, nfc, nora young, nsfetchedresultscontroller, nyc, parties, petstore.com, phil shoemaker, raptors, rejection, royal wedding, sean allen, services apis, siri skills, size classes, sjmacindie, spark, spritekit, stanford, startup, subscriptions, swift playgrounds, tacow, the mighty scale beast, thoughtbot, trudeau, tvos, twitch tv, virtual assistant, virtual queueing, watchos, wwdc app, wwdc bingo, wwdc lottery, wwdc videos, xcode for ipad

It's no surprise that WWDC is the main subject of the episode. We follow up on Mark Pavlidis' talk on subscriptions. We follow on another post about troubles dealing with App Store Connect. The App Store has also published their Principles and Practices. We discuss Swift 5.1's Ordered Collection Diffing. We retell our WWDC ticketing experiences around Jaime's 'My WWDC Sob Story'. Apple Pay debuts on NYC's MTA. Flipboard adds yet another password breach. Worldwide Costco Tour 2019. Announcing GitHub Sponsors. Candid Advice For Those Joining The Startup World. Gender bias supported by female voiced assistants. Canada's PM Trudeau warns of 'meaningful financial consequences' for social media giants. iOS 13 Dark Mode, Music and TV apps screenshot leaks. We discuss what we wish to be announced at WWDC and what we think is likely to be announced at WWDC? Picks: Join Sean Allen as he posts his live WWDC reactions on TwitchTV. WWDC by Sundell. iOS Dev Jobs. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. Creative Cloud trial. After show: WWDC events.

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