Empower Apps

Empower Apps

By Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigitBusinessTechnology
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Empower Apps episodes

  • Machine Learning with Kevin Scott

    Guest

    • Kevin Scott 
      • https://thekevinscott.com
      • Twitter @thekevinscott
      • Deep Learning with JS by Kevin Scott

    Related Episodes

    • Episode 34: Server-Side Swift with Tim Condon

    Related Links

    • Deploying Core ML models using Vapor - Fritz.AI

    Sponsors

    BrightDigit

    • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
    • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
    • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

    Contact me if you need help today.


    We have an opening for sponsors

    • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

    Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

    What is Machine Learning

    • Teaching Machines to Predict Based On Data
    • Having Machines Mimic Behavior
    • Subgroup with Artificial Intelligence

    How Developers and Companies Can Get Started 

    • Data Preparation
    • “There's the joke that 80 percent of data science is cleaning the data and 20 percent is complaining about cleaning the data”
    • Using Pre-Trained Models
    • Using AWS SageMaker 
    • JS vs Python vs R vs Julia vs Swift
    • The Advent of Server-Side Swift in ML
    • Preparing Enough Data or Using Synthetic Data
    • Using Augmented Data

    What are the different types of Machine Learning?

    • Statistical Learning using Structured Data
    • Transfer Learning with Neural Networks
    • Model Training 

    Examples and Usage of Machine Learning

    • Predictions Based On Structured Data
    • Sound Filtering
    • Computational Photography
    • Image Classification and Enhancement
    • Health Care (while respecting Privacy)
    • Augmented Reality
    • Audio Transcription

    Where And How To Implement ML

    • Any Apps which use Rich Media (i.e. Image, Audio, etc...)
    • Server-Side vs Client-Side
    • Future of using ML with Text
    • What's the future of Machine Learning

    Social Media

    Email
    [email protected]

    Twitter
    BrightDigit - @brightdigit
    Leo - @leogdion

    LinkedIn
    BrightDigit
    Leo

    Instagram - @brightdigit
    Patreon - empowerappshow

    Credits

    Music from https://filmmusic.io
    "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
    License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)


    Thanks to our monthly supporters
    • work design
    • Steven Lipton
    • ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
      38 min
    • Upgrading Your Skills in 2020 with Paul Hudson

      Guest

      • Paul Hudson 
        • Hacking With Swift
        • Twitter @twostraws
        • Reddit /u/twostraws
        • StackOverflow twostraws

      Related Episodes

      • Episode 23: Modularizing in Xcode with Abbey Jackson
      • Episode 24: Continuous Integration with Kyle Newsome
      • Episode 32: Training Your Team with Steve Lipton
      • Episode 33: 2020 Developer Wish List with Alex Bush

      Related Links

      • Conferences
        • iOS Conf SG
          • Nice Waterfall Tweet
        • CodeMash
          • Playing at CodeMash
        • dotSwift
        • SwiftAlps
        • SwiftAvero
        • Swift Island
        • PyCon
        • Swift TO Transparency Report
      • Sean Allen and Paul Hudson talk about Connie, the young coder
      • SwiftTO - Paul Hudson - The Evolution of Swift

      Sponsors

      BrightDigit

      • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
      • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
      • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

      Contact me if you need help today.


      We have an opening for sponsors

      • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

      Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

      Conference Thoughts

      • Cultural Differences 
      • Why Speakers Should Be Available To Attendees
      • The Challenges of Putting On Conferences
      • Organizers Making Attendees Happy
      • Having Really Nice Venue
      • Workshops vs Talks
      • Where Does the Community Fall Short with Inclusivity and Accessibility
      • Having Children-Friendly and Budget-Friendly Events

      What to Upgrade Skills and Why

      • Where Do You Want to Be In a Year?
      • Ask People In Those Positions
      • The Technology Field Demands Continuing Education
      • Continuing Education means New APIs but also...
        • Older APIs - UIKit, Networking, Unit Testing, etc...
        • Swift Syntax
        • Patterns and Practice

      Dealing with Updates to Swift 

      • The hedonic treadmill of Swift Development
      • Key Path Expressions as Functions by Stephen Celis and Greg Titus
      • Objective-C Cruft
      • When to Upgrade Your Old Swift Projects? (spoiler... Yesterday!)

      Upgrading Your Core Skills

      • Why it's important to have Core Skills and not just Coding Skills?
      • The Importance of Good Internal Presentation 
      • Why Senior Developers need Good Communication Skills
      • Picking Up on Impromptu Speaking Skills
      • Don't Feel Obligated Into a Role such as Public Speaker

      Upgrading Your Swift Skills

      • Paul's Thoughts on SwiftUI
      • Understanding The New Patterns of SwiftUI
      • The Importance of Unit Testing
      • Ash Farrow on JS vs Swift
      • The Complexity of Xcode

      Upgrading Other Tech Skills

      • Git and Version Control
      • Learning New and Different Tools
      • Terminal and Bash Scripting
      • Regular Expressions
      • Try Swift on other Devices
      • Be curious about other languages and platforms

      Recommended Courses and books

      • Testing With Swift
      • Swift Design Patterns
      • Swift For Good

      Social Media

      Email
      [email protected]

      Twitter
      BrightDigit - @brightdigit
      Leo - @leogdion

      LinkedIn
      BrightDigit
      Leo

      Instagram - @brightdigit
      Patreon - empowerappshow

      Credits

      Music from https://filmmusic.io
      "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
      License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

      Thanks to our monthly supporters
      • work design
      • Steven Lipton
      • ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
        1 hr 10 min
      • SwiftUI - The Good, the Bad, and the Benefits

        Video

        • https://youtu.be/8X2GVqg2lUI

        Full Article

        • SwiftUI: Everything is possible if you think like Apple

        Related Episodes

        • Episode 12: iOS Developer Interviews with Alex Bush
        • Episode 14: iOS App Architecture with René Cacheaux and Josh Berlin
        • Episode 18: WWDC 2019 - Apple Watch with Gary Sabo
        • Episode 19: WWDC 2019 - Swift UI with Jason Anderson
        • Episode 20: WWDC 2019 - Mac Development with Daniel Jalkut

        Related Links

        • Heartwitch - Live Stream Your Health Stats Right From Your Apple Watch - https://heartwitch.app
        • LansingCodes - GitHub Repo
        • Peopart Project
        • Detroit Tech Watch - Getting Started with Swift and Apple Watch Development
        • No Overview Available
        • Gui Rambo - You Can Use SwiftUI Today

        Sponsors

        BrightDigit

        • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
        • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
        • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

        Contact me if you need help today.


        We have an opening for sponsors

        • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

        Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

        Experience and Example Projects

        • Peopart Project
          • Detroit Tech Watch - Getting Started with Swift and Apple Watch Development
        • LansingCodes - GitHub Repo
        • Heartwitch - Live Stream Your Health Stats Right From Your Apple Watch - https://heartwitch.app

        Why SwiftUI Now?

        • Single Source of Truth
        • Declarative vs Imperative Programming
        • Functional Reactive Programming
        • Terminology of SwiftUI and Apple

        Why not SwiftUI?

        • Older Operating Systems
        • Using Special UIKit Views and Controls
        • Requires Very Stable App with Good Documentation

        Workarounds for SwiftUI

        • Preprocessor Directives and Attributes
        • UIViewRepresentable and UIViewControllerRepresentable

        When SwiftUI is Ideal

        • Simple UI
        • Apple Watch
        • Cutting Edge Audience
        • Internal Projects
        • Brand New Apps
        • Cross Apple Platform

        Social Media

        Email
        [email protected]

        Twitter
        BrightDigit - @brightdigit
        Leo - @leogdion

        LinkedIn
        BrightDigit
        Leo

        Instagram - @brightdigit
        Patreon - empowerappshow

        Credits

        Music from https://filmmusic.io
        "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
        License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

        Transcription

        Leo Dion (Host): Welcome again to another episode of empowerapps.Show. Thank you for joining me. I'm the host, Leo Dion. This is the BrightDigit podcast where I talk about Swift development, development in the Apple ecosystem, and  just overall updates, changes in ways that managers, CTOs and developers can stay current and up to date with new things coming out when it comes to Swift and Apple products. 

        [00:00:36] Today, I'm going to be talking a little bit more about SwiftUI -  the good, the bad, and the benefits. Specifically, I want to talk about my experience and examples of work that I've been doing in SwiftUI over the last few months, and then we'll be getting into why Swift UI is here, why Apple introduced it in 2019 we'll then be talking about why SwiftUI is not really a good use case in a lot of examples. I'll be talking about some workarounds about how to get around that if you still want to use Swift UI. And then we're getting into  when and where Swift UI is the ideal use and what apps or maybe  devices, where Swift UI really makes a lot of sense. 

        [00:01:21] So I want to talk a little bit about my experience and examples of where I've been using Swift UI.

        [00:01:27] So back in June, I actually did a workshop, and while it was the same month as WWDC, a couple of weeks actually afterwards, I ended up using UI kit for it.  I called it PeoPart because that's the random name generator - what it came up with. Essentially, it's a list of blog posts and comments that you can see on an iOS app.

        [00:01:50] I use UIKit for this example. Because at the time I really didn't want to jump into SwiftUI with new developers and risk that. But I will say that with this application I am slowly migrating over to SwiftUI. So the sample app actually available for you on GitHub and they will share a link for folks later in the show  notes.

        [00:02:16] But this is a example that I want to see what it'll do and what it will take to convert a UIKit app over to Swift UI and see what exactly happens when I do that. 

        [00:02:29] he other example is a app that I'm using or a building for my local coding community. Lansing codes where people in Lansing can see what events and what meetups are taking place.

        [00:02:43] It uses the Firebase backend and Web API that Eric, my colleague had built for the local community and uses combine, obviously along with Firebase. It uses Swift UI and I think it's a really great example of where I'm taking a fairly simple app, brand new, basically new app and building it into a iPhone app in this case. 

        [00:03:09] Lastly, you probably heard, I've been working on an app called HeartTwitch ,an independent watch app. They use a Swift UI and Vapor as the backend, and the idea of this app is that live streamers can share their heart rate right from their Apple watch and then take that sharing to a web browser window.

        22 min
      • Server-Side Swift with Tim Condon

        Guest

        • Tim Condon - Twitter @0xTim

        Related Episodes

        • Episode 8 - Cloud and Backend Services
        • Episode 23 - Modularizing in Xcode with Abbey Jackson

        Related Links

        • Hello Server-Side Swift by Logan Wright
        • Leo's Vapor Tutorials and Videos
        • How to get started developing Server-Side Swift - SwiftTO 2019
        • Vapor – Deep Dive Guide into Setup and Deployment for Heroku and Ubuntu
        • Asynchronous Multithreaded Parallel World of Swift
        • Server Side Swift with Vapor on raywenderlich.com
        • Porting Swift to Windows by Saleem Abdulrasool

        Sponsors

        BrightDigit

        • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
        • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
        • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

        Contact me if you need help today.


        We have an opening for sponsors

        • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

        Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

        How does Vapor compare With other backends?

        • Why not use CloudKit or Firebase?
        • How does it compare to NodeJS, Ruby, .Net or PHP?
        • Limitation of various programming languages
        • Preferred Database Backend
        • What's the difference between Vapor and other Server-Side Swift backend frameworks?
        • What is the Server-Side Group and SwiftNIO?

        Using Vapor Today

        • Is it ready for production?
        • What are some considerations a dev team should make?
        • What's the best way to get started?
        • What plugins are available? (Database, Authentication, Leaf, etc...)
        • What are differences with Swift on the server vs. the client?
        • How can you share code correctly between iOS and the server?

        The Future of Vapor 4

        • What improvements are being made in Vapor 4?
        • How does SwiftNIO2 affect Vapor?
        • How does Swift 5 change the way database models work?
        • How has SwiftUI and Combine affected Vapor and the way HTML is rendered?

        Social Media

        Email
        [email protected]

        Twitter
        BrightDigit - @brightdigit
        Leo - @leogdion

        LinkedIn
        BrightDigit
        Leo

        Instagram - @brightdigit
        Patreon - empowerappshow



        Thanks to our monthly supporters
        • work design
        • Steven Lipton
        • ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
          53 min
        • 2020 Developer Wish List with Alex Bush

          Guest

          • Alex Bush - Twitter @alex_v_bush
            • LinkedIn
            • iOS Interview Guide 
            • Inside iOS Dev Podcast

          Related Episodes

          • Episode 12 - iOS Developer Interviews with Alex Bush
          • Episode 23 - Modularizing in Xcode with Abbey Jackson
          • Inside iOS Dev - First Thoughts on SwiftUI
          • Inside iOS Dev - WWDC 2019
          • Inside iOS Dev - Protocol Extensions

          Sponsors

          BrightDigit

          • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
          • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
          • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

          Contact me if you need help today.


          We have an opening for sponsors

          • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

          Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

          Podcast Update in 2020

          • EmpowerApps is Moving to 3 episodes per month
          • About the Inside iOS Dev Podcast

          Xcode Wish List

          Leo

          • Improvements to Auto Completion and SourceKit
          • Improvements to Playgrounds
          • Brand New IDE (similar to Objective-C, iTunes, UIKit, etc...)
          • XcodeGen - Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project
          • Better Support for Modularization and Swift Packages
          • Fastlane - App Automation 
          • swift-sh - Swift Scripting
          • Speculid - Asset Management and Using SVGs

          Alex

          • Fix Look Up References in Xcode
          • Vim Support - XVim2
          • Buck - A high-performance build tool
          • Guard - automate testing
          • More Command Line Tools and Automation

          Swift Wish List

          Leo

          • Add More UI to SwiftUI
          • More Guidance on Complex Data Binding
          • Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift - Add Async and Await
          • Better Asynchronous Unit Testing
          • In-App Purchases for the Watch

          Alex

          • Alex's thoughts on SwiftUI
          • Combine and Reactive Programming vs RxSwift
          • SwiftUI and UIKit interop
          • Alex's thoughts on Protocol Extensions
          • Instant apps?

          Future-Proofing with SwiftUI

          • Abstracting Implementation Details for Future Hardware
          • Learn Once and Code Everywhere 
          • Not Ready For Production Now But is the Future
          • Perfect for the Apple Watch
          • Likely to Change in the Future
          • Backwards Support for UIKit/AppKit
          • UIActivityIndicatorView

          Social Media

          Email
          [email protected]

          Twitter
          BrightDigit - @brightdigit
          Leo - @leogdion

          LinkedIn
          BrightDigit
          Leo

          Instagram - @brightdigit
          Patreon - empowerappshow



          Thanks to our monthly supporters
          • work design
          • Steven Lipton
          • ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
            47 min
          • Training Your Team with Steve Lipton

            Guest

            • Steve Lipton- Twitter @Steve_Lipton
              • LinkedIn
              • MakeAppPie
              • iOS Development Tips Weekly
              • LinkedIn Learning Courses
              • Steve Lipton - No Biz Like Show Biz: Video Recording Your App for Marketing and Instruction

            Related Episodes

            • Episode 25 - Hiring an iOS Developer with John Knox
            • Episode 29 - Managing iOS Development with Peter Witham

            Sponsors

            BrightDigit

            • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
            • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
            • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

            Contact me if you need help today.


            We have an opening for sponsors

            • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

            Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

            Why Training Is Important

            • What is the Red Queen Dilemma?
            • What's the difference between Coding and Programming
            • Why knowing your customer's needs helps your training be better focused
            • The significance of Soft Skills too
            • Why you should invest in your current employees rather than hiring new employees
            • When consultants and trainers make the most sense
            • Building Good Documentation

            What Makes For Good Training Material

            • Make sure the pattern and style matches yours
            • Good production quality
            • Make sure it's readable!
            • Make sure your audience understands - Bloom's Taxonomy
            • Make sure it sticks

            Creating Good Training Videos

            • Steve Lipton - No Biz Like Show Biz: Video Recording Your App for Marketing and Instruction
            • Have a decent microphone
            • Have a quiet room
            • Font Size 20 and up
            • Balance Size, Resolution and File Size - 16:9 HD Resolution
            • Have a script to follow

            How to Judge Good Training Material Online

            • How many video do they have?
            • Watch the welcome video
            • Good series of tracks
            • Good organization

            Specific Challenges with Xcode and Swift

            • Dealing with constant changes and updates (i.e. Xcode)
            • Understand updates are part of the workflow
            • Patterns are more stable then APIs (i.e. Reactive Programming vs Combine)
            • Apple's Character Arcs

            Social Media

            Twitter - @brightdigit

            Facebook - BrightDigit

            LinkedIn - BrightDigit

            Instagram - @brightdigit
            Patreon - empowerappshow



            Thanks to our monthly supporters
            • work design
            • Steven Lipton
            • ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
              38 min
            • Future Proofing Your Apps with Gui Rambo

              Guest

              • Gui Rambo - Twitter @_inside
                • Blog
                • Github
                • Stacktrace Podcast
                • 9to5Mac

              Related Episodes

              • Episode 18 - WWDC 2019 - Apple Watch with Gary Sabo
              • Episode 19 - WWDC 2019 - Swift UI with Jason Anderson
              • Episode 29 - Managing iOS Development with Peter Witham
              • Episode 14 - iOS App Architecture with René Cacheaux and Josh Berlin
              • iPhreaks Episode 244 - MicroConf and Writing Health Apps for Apple Watch
              • Stacktrace Episode 63 - Classic Butterfly

              Sponsors

              BrightDigit

              • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
              • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
              • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

              Contact me if you need help today.


              We have an opening for sponsors

              • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

              Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

              Developer Apps and WWDC

              • New Apple Developer App!
              • Apple keeping in contact with developers
              • Streamlining getting started as a developer
              • Apple Business bureaucracy and DUNS number fun!
              • Cocoahub App for Swift Developers
              • WWDC Mac App by Gui
              • Lack of Apple Documentation

              Supporting Future Hardware

              • Adam Bell (@b3ll) - Getting ahead of the curve - NSSpain 2015
              • Don't deviate from what Apple expects 
              • Random iOS Architecture Names
              • The Multi-Threaded Asynchronous World of Swift from 360iDev by Leo
              • Will ARM matter when they switch from Intel?
              • GitHub? Remember SourceForge

              Future-Proofing with SwiftUI

              • Abstracting Implementation Details for Future Hardware
              • Learn Once and Code Everywhere 
              • Not Ready For Production Now But is the Future
              • Perfect for the Apple Watch
              • Likely to Change in the Future
              • Backwards Support for UIKit/AppKit
              • UIActivityIndicatorView

              Where is AR Headed with Apple?

              • Gui Rambo: Why an AR skeptic is excited about RealityKit and Reality Composer
              • Measurement App 
              • Are AirPods Pro a step towards Augment Reality?
              • Google Translate and Wordlens
              • Being Able to Connect to Third-Part AR Similar to CarPlay

              Tinkering with Raspberry PI and HomeKit

              • Graphical Swift Development with GTK
              • Developing with the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi Zero
              • Homebridge
              • Developing a HomeKit device in Swift

              What's Missing on the Apple Watch

              • Faster Processor and Better Battery
              • Lack of In-App Purchases
              • Lack of Biometric Authentication (i.e. Finger Print Reader)

              Social Media

              Twitter - @brightdigit

              Facebook - BrightDigit

              LinkedIn - BrightDigit

              Instagram - @brightdigit
              Patreon - empowerappshow


              Thanks to our monthly supporters
              • work design
              • Steven Lipton
              • ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
                43 min
              • Quickie: Swift UI and 2020 Trends

                Youtube Video

                Related Episodes

                • Episode 22 - September 2019 Event
                • Episode 19 - WWDC 2019 - Swift UI with Jason Anderson
                • Episode 18 - WWDC 2019 - Apple Watch with Gary Sabo

                Sponsors

                BrightDigit

                • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
                • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
                • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

                Contact me if you need help today.


                We have an opening for sponsors

                • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

                Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

                Maturity for the iPhone

                • Unlikely to see any big hardware innovations at this point
                • Maybe foldable
                • Great time to get an app on here, because it’s a mature product
                • 11 not a huge change from the 10 (but definite upgrade from the 8)

                Apple Watch Innovation

                • Waiting for some improvements to battery and processor, but this is about to become an amazing product
                • Great time to think about developing an app, esp. in the health & fitness sector

                iPads and the Pro App Market

                • Apple Arcade shows Apple is interested in a subscription/bundle for games
                • Highlighted new iPad but where are the serious pro apps
                • Why having a subscription for app/games is great
                • Hardware is great, but software needs to improve app ecosystem
                • The App store eco system is still setup for “casual” apps for there is potent

                Swift UI

                • SwiftUI is changing the way UI is developed but slowly
                • First Swift-only API (no Objective-C compatibility)
                • Maybe not be ideal for some companies with different design patterns but it’s a better starting place then Storyboards and UIKit
                • Cross-Platform compatible with iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS

                Social Media

                Twitter - @brightdigit

                Facebook - BrightDigit

                LinkedIn - BrightDigit

                Instagram - @brightdigit
                Patreon - empowerappshow




                Thanks to our monthly supporters
                • work design
                • Steven Lipton
                • ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
                  8 min
                • Managing iOS Development with Peter Witham

                  Guest

                  • Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

                  Related Episodes

                  • CompileSwift - Episode 10 - Apple Release Cycles 
                  • CompileSwift - Episode 11 - Source Control

                  Sponsors

                  BrightDigit

                  • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
                  • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
                  • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

                  Contact me if you need help today.


                  We have an opening for sponsors

                  • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

                  Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

                  Release Cycles

                  • Should Apple keep releasing on a yearly cycle?
                  • Rough 2019 Release with iOS and macOS
                  • How iOS 13 is the first significant release since iOS 7

                  iPad vs MacBook

                  • Improvements to iPadOS 13
                  • What's missing from the iPad for pro-use?
                  • Canopy by Studio Neat

                  Dealing with App Store and Teams

                  • Certificates and Profiles
                  • Working with Source Control
                  • Agreeing on Xcode Version

                  Is Swift UI Ready For New Projects?

                  • Depends on Audience and User Base
                  • Lack of Documentation
                  • Dealing with New Technical Hurdles
                  • Big Improvement over UIKit
                  • How to deal with UI Development right now?

                  Changes Over The Years for Teams

                  • Better Handling of Remote Teams
                  • Xcode Improvements
                  • How Apple's culture affects the developer experience?
                  • How to Deal with Decisions as Team Lead
                  • Dealing with Third-Party Dependencies
                  • Source Control Improvements
                  • Using Gitolite for Local Hosted Git
                  • Introducing New Technologies With Tomorrow in Mind
                  • Realizing the Soft in Software

                  Social Media

                  Twitter - @brightdigit

                  Facebook - BrightDigit

                  LinkedIn - BrightDigit

                  Instagram - @brightdigit
                  Patreon - empowerappshow

                  Thanks to our monthly supporters
                  • work design
                  • Steven Lipton
                  • ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
                    44 min
                  • Apple Hardware 2019 with Paul J Schmidt

                    Guest

                    •  Paul J Schmidt - UnoDeuce Multimedia
                      • Youtube
                      • Instagram
                      • Twitter
                      • Facebook

                    Related Episodes

                    • Episode 13 - Apple and Video
                    • Episode 7 - Apple 2019

                    Sponsors

                    BrightDigit

                    • Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
                    • 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
                    • Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

                    Contact me if you need help today.


                    We have an opening for sponsors

                    • Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? 

                    Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page.

                    AirPods Pro

                    • Improved Sound Quality and Battery
                    • Noise Cancellation and Transparency Mode
                    • Possibly A First Attempt at Audio Augmented Reality

                    iPhone 11

                    • Video Recording Updates
                    • Filmic Pro
                    • Frame Rate Improvements
                    • What's the advantage for Max Vs. Plus?
                    • Night Mode, Deep Fusion, and other camera improvements

                    iPads and Macs for Professionals

                    • Are iPads ready for Profession Video Editing?
                    • Adobe Premier vs Adobe Rush
                    • iMac Pro vs Mac Pro
                    • Intel vs ARM

                    iOS 13 and Catalina

                    • Is there a need to upgrade for non-developers?
                    • When will iOS 13 be ready?
                    • Issues with 64-bit only on Catalina

                    Social Media

                    Twitter - @brightdigit

                    Facebook - BrightDigit

                    LinkedIn - BrightDigit

                    Instagram - @brightdigit
                    Patreon - empowerappshow



                    Thanks to our monthly supporters
                    • work design
                    • Steven Lipton
                    • ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
                      34 min

                    About Empower Apps

                    From the publisher's feed

                    An exploration of Apple business news and technology. We talk about how businesses can use new technology to empower their business and employees, from Leo Dion, founder of BrightDigit.