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Swift by Sundell

John Sundell

In-depth conversations about Swift and software development in general, hosted by John Sundell.

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01:04:36

63: “It’s been a wild year”, a Holiday Special with...

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2019/12/19

iOS developers and bloggers Donny Wals and Antoine van der Lee join John to wrap up the third season of the show with this year’s Holiday Special. How has Swift changed in 2019, and where might things be headed in 2020? Also, wishes for Xcode Santa, blogging and open source, and much more.

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01:05:56

62: “Backend-driven UIs”, with special guest Kate...

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2019/12/05

Kate Castellano joins John to discuss how views and UIs can be made more dynamic and data-driven, and how that could even enable certain views to get their entire layout configuration from the server. Also, view models, handling loading states, and much more.

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01:11:32

61: “End-to-end Swift”, with special guest Tim Condon

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2019/11/22

Tim Condon, server-side Swift developer, writer and conference organizer, joins John to talk about all things networking. From organizing and abstracting networking code on the client-side, to using Swift on the server, and how to combine the two in order to write Swift end-to-end.

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01:23:57

60: “Deploying SwiftUI in production”, with special...

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2019/11/07

Indie iOS and watchOS developer “Underscore” David Smith joins John to discuss the current state of Apple Watch app development, and how SwiftUI is changing how watchOS apps are built. Also, managing and prioritizing multiple projects, Swift vs Objective-C, and whether SwiftUI is actually production-ready.

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00:52:48

59: “A major step forward”, a SwiftUI special with...

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2019/10/22

Josh Shaffer, engineering director with the UIKit and SwiftUI team at Apple, joins John to go on a deep dive into SwiftUI. What inspired the creation and design of SwiftUI, how does it impact the way apps are developed and architected, how is Apple using and improving SwiftUI internally, and much more.

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00:51:32

58: “Swift for Machine Learning”, with special guests...

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2019/10/08

John is joined by Paige Bailey and Brennan Saeta from the Swift for TensorFlow team at Google, to talk about the work they’re doing adopting and adapting Swift for Machine Learning. What makes Swift a good fit for this task, how might the language need to evolve to support this type of use cases even better, and much more.

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01:22:07

57: “Audio and Swift”, with special guest Adam Bell

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2019/09/24

Adam Bell joins John to talk about audio programming in Swift, and how SwiftUI makes rendering visual representations of audio and other custom shapes easier than ever before. Also, reverse engineering, mixing SwiftUI with UIKit and other view frameworks, and much more.

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01:08:43

56: “The power of software”, with special guest Ish...

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2019/09/13

Ish ShaBazz joins John to talk about indie app development, planning and productivity, deciding which system features to adopt and what trends to follow, what’s new in Xcode 11 and Swift 5.1, and much more.

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01:20:21

55: “A whole new world”, with special guest Marin...

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2019/08/30

Marin Todorov joins John to talk about bridging the gap between UIKit, Combine and SwiftUI, how to design intuitive and robust APIs, and how the developer community can augment Apple’s SDKs through open source.

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01:24:51

54: “Swift 5.1, iOS 13 and iPadOS”, with special...

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2019/08/13

Benedikt Terhechte and Bas Broek join John to dive into iOS 13 and iPadOS, as well as Swift 5.1 — how it powers SwiftUI, and if it would be possible to backport parts of SwiftUI to earlier iOS versions. Also, text editors, new iPhone and iPad UI conventions, and more.

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01:15:34

53: “The Swift Apple”, with special guest Brent Simmons

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2019/08/01

Longtime Apple platforms developer Brent Simmons joins John to discuss how SwiftUI is ushering in a new era for Apple’s developer tools, and how we as third party developers can prepare for it. Also, Mac development, lots of tips for writing efficient code, and dynamic programming in Swift.

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01:28:46

52: “Diving into Combine”, with special guest Casey Liss

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2019/07/18

Casey Liss joins John to talk about Apple’s newly announced Combine framework for reactive programming, how it compares to existing tools like RxSwift, and different strategies for adopting it. Also, unit testing, life as an indie developer, and much more.

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01:04:52

51: “Accessibility is for everyone”, with special...

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2019/07/04

Kaya Thomas joins John to talk about Apple’s various accessibility technologies and how SwiftUI is taking things to a whole new level. Also, how UI testing and accessibility are closely related, and what makes declarative UI development so powerful.

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01:21:20

50: “Swift’s past, present and future”, with special...

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2019/06/20

Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, joins John on this 50th episode of the show — to discuss the current state of Swift and how it came to be, as well as to speculate about what the future of the language and its ecosystem might look like.

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01:23:30

49: “A big buffet of frameworks”, with special guest...

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2019/06/06

It’s time for the 2019 Swift by Sundell WWDC special, featuring PCalc creator James Thomson — who, with his over 25 years of experience developing apps for Apple’s platforms, joins John to discuss SwiftUI, Catalyst, and the other exciting tools and frameworks introduced at this year’s WWDC.

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01:13:35

48: “Automate all the things”, with special guest...

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2019/05/21

Automation enthusiast and Scriptable developer Simon Støvring joins John to discuss automation, scripting, and building tools. Also, app modularity, frameworks, and what it would take to bring automation on Apple’s platforms to the next level.

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01:15:34

47: “Your North Star”, with special guest Mayuko Inoue

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2019/05/09

iOS developer and YouTuber Mayuko Inoue joins John to discuss team work and how a solid code structure can make teams more productive. Other topics include goal setting, how to grow as an engineer, and contributing to open source.

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00:43:21

46: “A desire for simplicity and performance”, with...

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2019/04/23

Michael Ilseman, developer on the Swift team at Apple, joins John to go on a deep dive into the String type, its implementation, and its related APIs. Topics range from the way Swift’s String API is designed, to its underlying complexities, and practical performance tips.

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01:34:35

45: “That’s why we refactor”, with special guests...

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2019/04/09

Chris Eidhof and Matt Gallagher join John to discuss app architecture, RxSwift and Functional Reactive Programming, and how to decide what patterns, frameworks, and concepts to adopt when architecting and building an app.

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01:09:22

44: “Pull up the time profiler”, with special guest...

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2019/03/29

Janina Kutyn, former Apple Music developer and now an iOS developer in Amsterdam, joins John for a UI development special! Topics include various techniques for building UIs and layouts, measuring and fixing performance problems, and supporting different screen sizes and devices.

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