In this episode we have legendary Robert Uncle Bob Martin come over to talk about Clean Code, professionalism, and courage. We cover:- the impact of Clean Code on businesses' ability to change software and make money- management pushback on applying Clean Code practices and how to handle it- how managers get to the truth and how developers get to the truth- professionalism, courage to take risk and saying NO despite potentially being fired- writing tests to reduce risks working with legacy (and not legacy) code- code ownership and pair programming- following the code rules you establish- a rapid questions round- ask listeners' questions- and much moreClean Code: Architecture & Design Masters Class for Software Developers . It starts September 6th: https://cleancodemastercourse2023.eventbrite.com/More Uncle Bob's events can be found here: http://thecleancoder.eventbrite.com/Clean Coders video courses: http://www.cleancoders.com/--- If you're looking for to simplifying software development with Clean Code reach out to: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clean-code-ventures/Prepping for a system design interview? Check out Alex's iOS System Design Interview video course: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us:https://twitter.com/insideiosdevhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alexvbush/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeep-aggarwal-629ab45a/https://twitter.com/alex_v_bushhttps://twitter.com/sandeepCool77Email us at [email protected] 

Sandeep and Alex talk to Aaina Jain and Muralidharan Kathiresan about interviewing in current layoffs prone market, interview stages and tips to be more successful in each.Aaina's medium: https://medium.com/@aainajainMurali: https://unknowndefault.com/https://topmate.io/murali_khttps://www.linkedin.com/in/muralidharankathiresan/Prepping for a system design interview? Check out Alex's iOS System Design Interview: video course: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us:- https://twitter.com/insideiosdev- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexvbush/- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeep-aggarwal-629ab45a/Comments or questions? Email us at [email protected] 

In this episode Alex and Sandeep react to WWDC 2022 Platform State of The Union. This is our very raw, unresearched reaction/opinion on what we heard on latest WWDC changes for iOS development. Some things are just emotions and unfiltered opinions, some are things we already looked into.We'll be doing deep dives in other videos into some of the stuff we covered that we're not sure or don't know much about or stuff that deserves more attention.You can find the video we covered here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/102/ Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex and Sandeep share 10 iOS development tips that you can add to your knowledge base in less than 10 minutes for a better development experience. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

In this episode Sandeep and Alex showcase how mocks can be used in production code to substitute upcoming unfinished or unreleased backend changes. They use dependency injection and Liskov Substitution Principle to inject a service object implementation that uses local hardcoded data instead of fetching it from the network.Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex and Sandeep introduce Swift Sourcery, a code generation tool to automatically create mock implementations for interfaces in your code.Sourcery on github: https://github.com/krzysztofzablocki/Sourcery  Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at [email protected]

In this episode Sandeep and Alex refactor a class with a large initializer into something easier to use. This is part one of this series.Sample code was taken from Fred’s tweet: https://twitter.com/frederickohen/status/1413595709471875072Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

RIBs Resources:- [Original RIB repository](https://github.com/uber/RIBs)- [Uber RIB wiki](https://github.com/uber/RIBs/wiki)- General video: [Uber's new mobile architecture that scales to hundreds of engineers by Tuomas Artman](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FfwZSk6VRVY)- Video 1: [Architecture rewrite](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bB9e7ZYVYCo)- Video 2: [Deep Scope Hierarchies](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWu1HcFIRnQ)- Video 3: [Introduction to RIBs](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5cTT0M0YXg)- Video 4: [Plugins in RIBs](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vIdsYLXClZs)- Blog: [Engineering the Architecture Behind Uber’s New Rider App](https://eng.uber.com/new-rider-app/)- Blog: [Engineering Scalable, Isolated Mobile Features with Plugins at Uber](https://eng.uber.com/plugins/)- Blog: [Why We Decided to Rewrite Uber’s Driver App](https://eng.uber.com/rewrite-uber-carbon-app/)- Blog: [Building a Scalable and Reliable Map Interface for Drivers](https://eng.uber.com/building-a-scalable-and-reliable-map-interface-for-drivers/)- Blog: [Architecting a Safe, Scalable, and Server-Driven Platform for Driver Preferences with RIBs](https://eng.uber.com/carbon-driver-app-preferences-ribs/)- Blog: [Activity/Service as a Dependency: Rethinking Android Architecture for the Uber Driver App](https://eng.uber.com/activity-service-dependency-android-architecture/)- Blog: [Harnessing Code Generation to Increase Reliability & Productivity on iOS at Uber](https://eng.uber.com/code-generation/) ***Not directly RIBs but good to read***- Blog: [Exploring RIBs](https://medium.com/swlh/ios-architecture-exploring-ribs-3db765284fd8)- Podcast: [Opinion about RIBs from somebody at Uber](https://overcast.fm/+JAbhB0-c0)- Podcast: [Alex on Uber's RIB Architecture](https://insideiosdev.com/episodes/alex-on-ubers-rib-architecture-2d362fd3)- Screencast : [RIBs Architecture on iOS by Alex Bush](https://alexbush.podia.com/ribs-architecture-on-ios)  Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex and Sandeep talk to Michael DeGothsier about challenges developers and designers face working with each other and what approaches and perspectives they might take to improve collaboration.Sandeep's twitter: https://twitter.com/sandeepCool77New Inside iOS Dev YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/InsideiOSDevSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex and Sandeep talk to Jeff Gilbert, the author of VIPER architecture, about evolving understanding of VIPER, complex VIPER apps and compare different way to understand and implement VIPER on projects of all sizes.VIPER Architecture Diagram from the web: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AneU_VTSiGUE5Rvln8cBdVj0Ztja?e=IWt1hnVIPER Architecture Diagram from its author Jeff Gilbert: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AneU_VTSiGUE5R9MBCMLgr8talep?e=z87kEGDiagram of two ways of implementing VIPER: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AneU_VTSiGUE5B7WZZE5mLiFtLNh?e=QITm0b Jeff Gilbert's twitter: https://twitter.com/heyjeffgSandeep Aggarwal's twitter: https://twitter.com/sandeepCool77 YouTube video version of this episode can be found here: https://youtu.be/EhsrS6vjuds

In this episode I walk you through how to create an extension on Optional String type to default nil strings to an empty string. This little shortcut can greatly reduce the amount of ifelsing and if let unwrapping on optional strings in your Swift codebase.This episode's video screencast: https://youtu.be/qzuFvUVuH9UThis episode's audio podcast: https://insideiosdev.com/episodes/swift-optional-string-or-empty-extensionInside iOS Dev YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zcA3dAMUWN8E2_dlg_WyQ

I'm transitioning to Youtube! Don't worry, the podcast is not over :) I'll be making more and more screencast style videos instead of just audio podcast format. I'll still be having guest over and have conversations with them about the code and I'll be cross posting screencast episodes on the podcast as well. This new direction will allow me to explain the concepts and showcase the code examples better as the audio format can only do so much. Please hop on over to Youtube. You can find the channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zcA3dAMUWN8E2_dlg_WyQ Please share, like, and subscribe to it as it will greatly help me get this channel up and running. Hope to see and hear your feedback and have better content quality there. Let me know what you think and I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

Alex talks to Sandeep Aggarwal about Builder design pattern. They talk about use cases where the pattern is most applicable and how the implementation they made turned out.Sandeep's Twitter https://twitter.com/sandeepCool77Screencast covering Builder design pattern implementation in Swift can be found here https://youtu.be/EhT-sMo9gJsThe article used to research on Builder Design Pattern: https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/builderIf you want to learn more about design patterns checkout this book: http://bit.ly/didp-insideiosdevSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex talks about unexpected bugs he encountered with the new iOS release and how replacing a 3rd party library with a built-in Apple implementation is not always the silver bullet.Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex talks about unexpected intricacies and complexities he encountered trying to determine if a given view controller is visible trying to refresh data every time the user sees it. This seems like an overkill but it is more complex then you'd expect.Table of states and viewDidAppear/Foreground notification calls: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AneU_VTSiGUEh2kmJVH376QmUG79?e=X13rSQSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex gives an introduction to unit-testing on iOS. He talks about what unit-testing is, how unit-tests are structured, and best practices on organizing your test code. He also touches upon mocking/stubbing and testing side effects as well.Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Daniel Hall and Alex talk about protected visibility modifier in objective oriented languages and how they wish it was added to Swift language. They talk about reasons for why it is needed and what workarounds you could use to achieve semi-similar result.Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview?https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex talks about why he’s been missing in action and haven’t published any podcast episodes in a while.Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

LinkedIn Law Of Demeter threadTwitter Law Of Demeter threadTom on TwitterTom on LinkedInSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex talks to Daniel Hall about SwiftUI data observation, Environment, EnvironmentObject, ObservableObject, and State. Daniel is an iOS architect at Wayfair.EnvironmentEnvironmentObjectObservableObjectStateDaniel Hall on Twitter @_danielhallSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex continues to cover his article iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020. In this episode he covers questions:What is MVC?What do you know about singletons? Where would you use one and where would you not?What’s different between delegate and KVO?Links:iOS Interview Questions for SeniorDevelopers in 2020 articleAlex's book The iOS Interview GuideSystems Design Interview CourseSubmit interview questions you want me to answer here: https://iosinterviewguide.com/submit-questionSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex talks about an article he recently published - "iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020"He covers first 3 questions from the article:What are the main features and advantages or disadvantages of Swift?What is an iOS application and where does your code fit into it?How is memory management handled in iOS?Links:iOS Interview Questions for SeniorDevelopers in 2020 ArticleAlex's book The iOS Interview GuideWant one of your interview questions answered on podcast? Submit them here: http://iosinterviewguide.com/submit-questionSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex talks about iOS system design interview, what to expect, what's important to focus on and what complexity a potential e-commerce application might have.The iOS System Design Interview Video CourseSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex talks to Jeff Gilbert about VIPER architecture, how it came to be and how this architecture helps scale iOS codebases. Jeff is the author of VIPER.This episode sponsor is healr.io Jeff's twitter @heyjeffgArchitecting iOS Apps with VIPER (objc.io)https://literati.com/Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex interviews Leo Dion about his recent article Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift. They talk about async work on iOS, options developers had previously (from low level to high), and then discuss how new Apple frameworks Swift Nio and Combine helps solve asynchronous tasks on iOS.Unfortunately the chat transcript for this call was lost and some of the links didn't make it into show notes.Leo's article - Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of SwiftLeo's 360 iDev talkLeo's twitterSwiftNIOCombineSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex explains how overusing extensions and protocol extensions in Swift leads to unpredictable runtime bugs.Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlistNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

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Alex interviews Rody Davis about Flutter, a cross platform framework for iOS and Android development. They also address cross platform development issues Dropbox experienced with their mobile apps.Dropbox drops mobile cross platform C++FlutterDropbox's cross platform C++ issues articleRody on TwitterRody's websiteRody's GithubNeed to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Recently, Dropbox published a blog illustrating the costs & overhead of using C++ to code share between iOS and Android. The author, Eyal Guthmann from Dropbox, joins us to elaborate more on the topic. Was the problem C++? Why couldn't Dropbox simply hire more C++ developers? Why not React Native or Flutter? Is cross platform mobile development simply not viable?Interested in C++ or mobile development? Dropbox is hiring!Dropbox C++ drop articleRunning into problems with shared cross platform code in JavaScript is the episode where Alex talked about cross platform code shareability issues using JavascriptSunsetting React Native Airbnb article announcing that they are dropping React NativeConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Alex talks about his first impressions working with VIPER architecture. He walks through each part of the architecture, compares it to RIBs, and talks about modularization. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at [email protected]

Alex and Andrew discuss the latest Dropbox engineering article that announced that Dropbox is dropping their support of cross platform mobile C++ code. Dropbox C++ drop article Running into problems with shared cross platform code in JavaScript is the episode where Alex talked about cross platform code shareability issues using Javascript Sunsetting React Native Airbnb article announcing that they are dropping React Native We're looking for help editing and prepping our episodes for release so that we can stay on track release them regularly. Contact us at [email protected] if you would like to help. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at [email protected]

Alex talks with Leo Dion about Server Side Swift and Vapor. Leo's twitter Leo's company Leo's Vapor getting started blog post http://learningswift.brightdigit.com/ https://www.empowerapps.show/ https://learningswift.brightdigit.com/vapor-swift-backend-review/ Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at [email protected]

Alex and Andrew interview Shai Mishali about advantages of using RxSwift for async operations on iOS instead of Grand Central Dispatch (GCD).Shai's twitterShai's contributions on Ray Wenderlich websiteRxSwift: Reactive Programming with Swift (raywenderlich.com book)Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.comConnect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevEmail us at [email protected]

Andrew talks about the pressures & frustrations that often accompany the highs of big tech announcements like WWDC.

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Our first impressions after the first day of WWDC 2019. We go over Marzipan/Catalyst, Swift's new Combine framework, SwiftUI, and other bits that caught our attention. Andrew's AppDevCon conference talk WWDC 2019 Keynote WWDC 2019 State of The Union SwiftUI Combine Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at [email protected]

Alex and Andrew explain a bit why they've been out. Then they both talk about the first conference talks they ever gave and what they learned. AppDevCon conference talk in Amsterdam iOS Coding Tips email list #ioscodingtips on Twitter #ioscodingtips on LinkedIn Twitter @InsideiOSDev [email protected]

Alex talks about what options you have implementing async work on iOS. He starts with the lowest level of abstraction GCD and goes all the way up to PromiseKit and RxSwift. GCD https://developer.apple.com/documentation/dispatch NSOperations https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/operation https://nshipster.com/nsoperation/ PromiseKit https://github.com/mxcl/PromiseKit RxSwift https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxSwift http://reactivex.io/ Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Alex gives an overview of unit-testing mocks, stubs, and fakes and explains what is the difference between them. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Alex talks about working at Uber and what he's learned from their RIB architecture. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Alex & Andrew respond to a listener question about starting a career in software engineering. How to choose between a coding bootcamp and university? What should one learn to be a marketable software engineer? What's the best way to learn? What's the market like for mobile software engineers? And more! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Alex has a change of mind on singletons after previously declaring them always "evil". Also, what's new in 2019 and what we have planned. You can find previous singletons episode here http://insideiosdev.com/dde8a34e Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Andrew talks about his recent design struggle with trying to work both within and maintaining a Model-View-Presenter architecture in the context of pre-existing code. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Alex answers a listener question. How does one design an app for scalability?Alex answers a question from a listener that just completed an iOS Engineer interview: How does one design an app for scalability? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Andrew describes & discusses the various problems with view controllers. Find Paul Hudson (@twostraws) at https://www.hackingwithswift.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Andrew talks about the recent architectural refactoring work he did at Reddit. He explains how the iOS team moved from an MVC architecture to a Model View Presenter (MVP) architecture. He also talks about Texture -- an async layout framework for fast scrolling feeds. This episode was originally recorded March 2018. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

We answer a listeners questions. What is the threat/benefit of React Native? What's happening to the job market because of React Native? How do you stay immune to the cultish force of the Javascript religion? What effect will WebAssembly have on web development? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev

Ray Wenderlich authors Kelvin Lau & Vincent Ngo come on the show to discuss their book "Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift". https://store.raywenderlich.com/products/data-structures-and-algorithms-in-swift https://www.raywenderlich.com/1108-join-the-swift-algorithm-club To enter our contest to for a chance to win a free copy of the book tweet what you like about our podcast. We will announce winners in a week or so. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

We talk with acclaimed iOS & Swift blogger John Sundell about unit testing is. We start out with just unit testing is and then move into details: when & how to do unit testing, tdd, and more! Find John Sundell at https://www.swiftbysundell.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Have an iOS Engineer Interview? Learn how to ace it at: https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

We speak with David Kopec, professor & iOS developer consultant, about his book "Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift". What can you learn from solving classic CS problems such as search, constraint-satisfaction, graph problems and more? David gives a brief explanation of some of the interesting problems in the book such as K-Means clustering and Genetic algorithms. Use promo code 'pckopec' at https://www.manning.com/books/classic-computer-science-problems-in-swift to purchase the book for half price! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

For their one year anniversary, Alex & Andrew let loose, have some beers and enjoy some free flowing chat. They talk podcasting, learning, architecture, & JavaScript! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Have an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Alex & Andrew do a quick recap of the WWDC 2018 Keynote & Platforms State of the Union. They get straight to what you need to know as a developer to be on top of all the new announcements and changes. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Have an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

We invite author & Ray Wenderlich contributor Marin Todorov to talk about the Realm database. Marin explains what it is and why you might use it as a persistence solution. He compares it to Core Data and helps give guidance on how to choose a persistence solution. He also goes into some of its benefits: simplified API, improved performance, cross platform usage, & automatic sync. Lastly, he talks about his new book "Realm: Building Modern Swift Apps with Realm Database". Find the book: https://store.raywenderlich.com/products/realm-building-modern-swift-apps-with-realm-database Learn more about Marin: http://www.underplot.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Florian Kugler, co-founder of the popular objc.io, joins us to discuss his new book "App Architecture". We discuss the five architectures covered in the book: Model-View-Controller, Model-View-ViewModel + Coordinator, Model-View-Controller+ViewState, ModelAdapter-ViewBinder, and The Elm Architecture. We also touch on the VIPER architecture and why it wasn't included in the book. Finally, we close out with some advice from Florian. Want to read the new "App Architecture" book? https://amzn.to/2KJfJPT https://www.objc.io/books/app-architecture/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Basem Emara discusses his application of Clean Architecture on iOS. He talks the different components, data flow, dependencies, & more!https://iosmentor.io/clean-architecture-for-ios/Buy Clean Architecture book

Best selling author Art Fedosejev joins us to discuss his new "Fun Driven Development" thesis and the problems it entails. What can we do to be more professional, responsible, and ethical software engineers? http://fundrivendevelopment.guide/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Soroush Khanlou joins for a rapid fire style interview. He talks about the iOS dev community, app architecture, best books to read as a dev to level up, and more! Find Soroush at: https://fatalerror.fm/ and http://khanlou.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Book recommendations: Domain Driven Design, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

Guest Kyle Roucis talks about the power of using Sets in Swift for pattern matching. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Alex talks about some of the problems he had working on a codebase that shared its business logic in JavaScript. We also talk generally about sharing code across mobile platforms. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Alex explains how to use the Null Object Pattern to simplify your code (an alternative to optionals). Read a related article about Null Object design pattern here: https://m.smartcloud.io/swift-optionals-and-the-null-object-design-pattern-7578b7448edf Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Prepping for an iOS Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Learn about the underlying mechanics of Auto Layout and the layout system of iOS in general. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Prepping for an interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

An overview of the indispensable Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Chapters 10 through 13. Learn how to write code that's simple, expressive, easy to read, easy to maintain, and elegant. Find Clean Code here: http://amzn.to/2Cd49HO Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Prepping for an interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Alex explains why he thinks Singletons are evil. He gives concrete reasons why and then offers a better alternative. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Engineer job interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

What is Dependency Injection? Why is it useful? How can we use it? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Studying for an iOS Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

Why is there so much confusion around design patterns and architectures? How can we gain better understanding of them? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Preparing for your next iOS Engineer job interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref

We have a lively debate over the potential merits and downfalls of Javascript as a programming language and community. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Preparing for your next iOS engineer job interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Want to learn about backend development? http://codetales.io/

An overview of the indispensable Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Chapters 6 through 9. Learn how to write code that's simple, expressive, easy to read, easy to maintain, and elegant. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

We make a confession and discuss developing in Swift versus Objective-C Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

What you need to know about developing for the new iPhone X. https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/overview/iphone-x/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Guest Julian Fahrer joins us to discuss what iOS developers can learn from backend development & devops. Julian's screencasts website: http://codetales.io/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

We share our experience and what we learned at the try! Swift New York City 2017 conference. Including Matt Gallaghers redux-like modeling of view state, Tanner Nelson's server-side Swift using Vapor, Neem Serra's Map & FlatMap magic, and Paul Fenwick's talk on machine ethics & emerging technologies. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Starting in iOS 11, Apple is requiring all apps to use the new SKStoreReviewController to prompt users to review & rate your app. We discuss the details of how this new review prompt works as well as other changes to reviews and the App Store. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

An overview of the indispensable Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Learn how to write code that's simple, expressive, easy to read, easy to maintain, and elegant. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Alex talks about how he nailed his iOS Software Engineer interview process and got his dream job at ThoughtWorks. The book about interviews Alex wrote: https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

An iOS design / architecture talk. Andrew & Alex introduce and discuss view models. What are they? Should you use them? How do they help solve the malignant Massive View Controller problem in iOS? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Andrew & Alex talk about pair programming. The advantages and disadvantages of it and whether you should utilize it or not. They also give some advice about pair programming. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Alex and Andrews describe the problems that arise when working with third party services in your application and how to work around those problems. First, they describe third party services. Then, they talk about specific problems they've had. Finally, they close with key takeaways and main lessons. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Andrew and Alex talk about the top must watch WWDC 2017 videos. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

From being laid off to landing his dream job at Reddit, Andrew shares lessons learned from his recent iOS Engineer job search. Listen to this episode if you want to be prepared for your next job interview. First, he talks about what it means to be laid off. Then, he gives advice about what to do immediately after being laid off. Next, he explains about how he prepared for and carried out the interview process. Finally, he discusses lessons learned and key takeaways. Read 'The iOS Interview Guide' book at https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Reddit is hiring! Go to about.reddit.com and tell them Andrew from Inside iOS Dev sent you. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Andrew and Alex recap Apple's WWDC Platforms State Of The Union 2017 -- Christmas for iOS Devs. Learn what new goodies we can look forward to. XCode, debugging, Swift, VR, AR, and more! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

In this episode, Alex and Andrew discuss 12 useful open source libraries you can use in your iOS app. They give a brief overview of how each works and how they can help you be more productive. They discuss: IGListKit, Realm, SwiftyJSON, AsyncDisplayKit/Texture, DZNEmptyDataSet, Hero, Charts, MGSwipeTableCell, RxSwift, PromiseKit, GDPerformanceView, Alamofire. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

In this episode, we talk about what continuous deployment is and how it can help automate and improve your development process. First, we define continuous deployment. Then, we talk about the evolution of our continuous deployment process. Finally, we end with key takeaways and a recommendation to use Buddybuild for your continuous deployment setup. Blog post mentioned: https://medium.com/@AndrewRohn/8-things-i-learned-in-my-first-eight-months-as-a-software-engineer-35c421a57036 Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Setup checklist: https://gist.github.com/andrewrohn/774185e4e15ddcc14f0a1e3c66c943e3 Andrew and Alex discuss setting up Universal Links in your application so you can deep link users directly into a specific page in your app. First, they discuss the overview and benefits of Universal Links. Then, they go over the exact steps to setup Universal Links. Along the way they discuss any gotchas to be mindful of. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

An introduction to some people in the iOS developer community. And a short exploration into why community matters in the software development world. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Alex and Andrew discuss A/B testing. What it is, how it works, and how to stay on top of it. Next, they discuss dependency management. What is it and why should you use it? How can you setup dependency management? Show Notes: iOS Project Setup with Cocoapods video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZfSXqQcZs&t=4s Learn more about AB testing best practices here: https://m.smartcloud.io/ab-testing-best-practices-in-ios-apps-2f04ab4f642e Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

In this episode, Alex and Andrew talk about tracking users in your application. They discuss the original in-app tracking and why they needed to update it. Then they talk about how they implemented the new in-app tracking. They discuss the evolution of their implementation, the tools they used, and some of the gotchas. We also wrote an article that shows an example of how we implement analytics in our apps https://m.smartcloud.io/analytics-and-tracking-best-practices-in-ios-apps-dedb8f328e97 Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com

Alex and Andrew introduce the book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and discuss the chapter on testing. They explain how the principles in the book can be applied to any object-oriented application regardless of programming language. Finally, they discuss the main takeaways from the book and about testing an OO application.Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com