Empower Apps

Alaina Kafkes from Calm joins us to talk about implementing App Intents and what she learning about her experience. Also special announcement regarding a certain app I've been working on.

Guest

• Alaina Kafkes (@alainakafkes) / X
  • Alaina Kafkes | LinkedIn

Pre-Order Bushel Today! Release Date December 15!

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Related Links 

• Calm's App Intents integration: how (and how not to) work with new Apple developer technologies — Calm Blog

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

• (00:00) - Pre-Order Bushel

Via Fairchild comes on the show to talk about accessibility, UI Kit, Swift UI and how it all brings your app to a wider more diverse audience.

Guest

• Via Fairchild
  • Via Fairchild | LinkedIn
  • Via (@codingmilf) / X
  • Via (@[email protected]) - Mastodon

Announcing a Brand New Patreon Page!

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• Perform accessibility audits for your app - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer
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Credits

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

• (00:00) - Special Announcement

Sean Rucker from Judo comes on to talk about their product and what they learned in the process of building Judo in dealing with SwiftUI.

Guest

• Sean Rucker
  • Judo
  • X @seanrucker
  • Mastodon @[email protected]
  • LinkedIn seanrucker

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Related Links 

• Meet Judo: Blog
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Credits

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

• (00:00) - What is Judo

Casey Liss comes on to talk about his new app Callsheet, working with Movie and TV APIs, old TV hardware companies, and enjoying App Review on the beach.

Guest

• Casey Liss
  • Mastodon @[email protected]
  • Analogue
  • Accidental Tech Podcast

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• redacted(reason:)
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Credits

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

• (00:00) - What is Callsheet

Pol Piella Abadia comes on to talk about what's new in  Xcode 15 as well as the landscape of CI tools out there. We aslo geek out about SwiftUI on the terminal and how Pol has helped production of the show.

Guest

• Pol Piella Abadia (blog)
  • Pol Piella (@polpielladev) / X
  • polpielladev (@[email protected]) - Mastodon
  • @polpielladev (Github)
  • Pol Piella | LinkedIn
  • iOS CI Newsletter
  • Pol Piella Abadia - Bento
  • 🔗 pol.link | Links to anywhere you can find me online!

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Related Links 

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Credits

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

• (00:00) - What's new in CI?

Marc Schwieterman from daily.co joins us to talk about the in and outs of building a video SDK and what capabilities are for iOS.

Guest

• Marc Schwieterman marcschwieterman.com 
  • Github @marcisme
  • Twitter @mschwieterman
  • Mastodon @[email protected]
  • Daily

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• Daily
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  • The Swift Package for the Daily Client on iOS
  • daily-ios-starter-kit
• WWDC 
  • Create a more responsive camera experience
  • Discover Continuity Camera for tvOS
  • Support external cameras in your iPadOS app
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• Add support for visionOS targets · Issue #642 · rust-lang/compiler-team
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Credits

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

• (00:00) - What is Daily

It's September Time! You know what that means. Evan Stone joins us to talk about the different ways we can spend money as well as his adventures at Apple's Vision Pro Labs.

Guest

• Evan K Stone @[email protected]
  • iOS Dev Break
  • Interactive Logic

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Credits

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

• (00:00) - Overall Impressions

A lot has changed since the last time Christian Selig was on the show. We talk Apollo post-morten, Third-Party APIs and of course Pixel Pals!

Guest

• Christian Selig (website)
  • Twitter @ChristianSelig
  • Mastodon @[email protected]
  • YouTube CLeeSelig
  • Pixel Pals

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Credits

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

• (00:00) - Origin Story

Brandon Williams from Point-Free comes on to talk about what dependencies are and managing then whether in testing or dealing with scaling.

Guest

• Brandon Williams @mbrandonw
  • Mastodon @[email protected]
  • Point-Free
  • Point-Free @ Github

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Credits

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

• (00:00) - EmpowerApps.Show

Matt Massicotte from Chime talks about the challenges he faced migrating the Async/Await and some misconceptions folks might have with asynchronous programming.

Guest

• Matt Massicotte - @[email protected]
  • Chime

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Credits

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

• (00:00) - What's (Not) New with ExtensionKit