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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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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?...

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...

Alex talks with Leo Dion about Server Side Swift and Vapor. Leo's twitter Leo's company Leo's Vapor getting started blog...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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:...

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...

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...