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John launches the first beta of Swift by Sundell 2.0, while Rambo launches Apple Arcade a bit earlier than expected. Also, Apple Watch series 5 materials, iPhone naming, your weekly dose of productivity tips, and more.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Swift by Sundell 2.0 beta

Rambo’s PlayAlways app

John’s playground script

Cloudflare

Linode

WWDC by Sundell retrospective

CoinX

iHelp BR’s report on Apple Watch materials

Apple Arcade hands-on video

Remaster episode about exclusivity deals

Memento

Rambo explores running iOS apps on the Mac with Catalyst, John falls in love will full screen mode all over again, and Apple’s new security measures for Mac apps and batteries cause a bit of a stir in the community. Also, tips for minimizing distractions, our first app crushes, and how come SwiftUI won’t run on iOS 12 and below?

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Oh My Zsh

Jason Snell’s tweet about Catalina’s permission dialogs

iFixit

TextMate

The Games Factory

SubEthaEdit

Swift 5.1 discussion on Swift by Sundell

Could Apple ship an iPhone that has both TouchID and FaceID, what goes into building truly fluid UIs and animations, and how to balance A/B testing with esthetics and usability when evolving a product? Also, are Apple’s latest betas ready for our primary devices yet?

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Review Stacktrace on Apple Podcasts

John’s static site generator’s plugin system

Rambo’s new bottom sheet

Designing Fluid Interfaces

Kuo’s report on iPhones with both TouchID and FaceID

Rambo’s MultiBiometrics discovery from 2017

Do humans really need to listen to Siri requests in order to improve them, can an iPhone be transformed into a HomePod, and could Xcode be used for web development? Also, Rambo’s TV gets a HomeKit and AirPlay update, while John’s TV turns out to be a bit of a globetrotter.

Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

John’s Xcode web development setup

The Guardian’s report on humans listening to Siri requests

Rambo’s iPhone/HomePod hack

Rambo goes on a shipping spree while also finding out exciting new info about this year’s iPhones. In the meantime John cheers himself up by writing a Markdown parser, and the Pixelmator team embeds their entire app inside of Photos. Also, what does it take to build up an audience and to make a blog successful?

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

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Markdown

ChibiStudio

“Designing Fluid Interfaces” from WWDC 2018

Pixelmator Pro

Rambo’s report about this year’s iPhones

John’s “Sharing” talk from AppBuilders 2018

How to decide when to cut a feature from a project, what could the refreshed MacBook lineup tell us about the future of Apple’s laptops, and how is the current state of Apple’s betas affecting third party developers? Also, why on Earth did Rambo buy a 2008 MacBook?!

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Rambo’s App Builders talk

Triggering shortcuts using Amiibo

xcodereleases.com

Review Stacktrace on Apple Podcasts

Special guest Federico Viticci joins John and Rambo to discuss the current state of the iPad, how it has evolved over the years and his impressions on iPadOS. We also discuss automation and how it relates to focus and productivity.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Federico on Twitter

MacStories

Connected episode number 250

Beyond the Tablet

Eve Button

Homebridge

John builds a hot reloading tool for writing HTML in Swift, Rambo accidentally discovers details on how SwiftUI’s previews work, and Jony Ive goes indie. Also, tips on professional communication, different approaches when it comes to adding analytics to an app, and much more.

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Using Grand Central Dispatch to observe file changes

DistributedNotificationCenter

SwiftUI’s ForEach does recycle views

The Talk Show episode about Jony Ive leaving Apple

Continuing to analyze the announcements made during this year’s WWDC, on this episode, John and Rambo turn their attention to the Swift Package Manager — and how the fact that it’s now integrated into Xcode is a big deal for many Swift developers. Also, how did Apple manage to hide SwiftUI for all those years, and do we think that other parts of Apple’s SDKs may be getting the “Swift UI treatment”?

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Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

SwiftAveiro

A first look at John’s HTML DSL

The Swift Package Manager

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John and Rambo dive deeper into backend-driven UIs using SwiftUI, as well as transparent backgrounds for third party apps, and the potential of using NFC for automation purposes. That, and more reflections on this year’s WWDC announcements, and whether the Mac Pro is actually designed for developers.

Hosts:

Gui on Twitter: @_inside

John on Twitter: @johnsundell

Links

Shifting paradigms in Swift

Codable views using SwiftUI

Rambo’s transparent app background project