Frank Foster is a developer who was given early access to Swift Playgrounds 4. This update provides the ability to write, test, and publish an iPhone or iPad app entirely from the iPad. In this episode we discuss his experiences over the past month developing an app in Playgrounds both on a new M1 iPad Pro and a very old iPad Air 2. You can find Frank’s blog post about his experiences at FrankEFoster.com.

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Chapter Markers

00:00:00: Opening

00:01:25: Anders Borum

00:04:38: Support the Podcast

00:05:55: Frank Foster

00:10:11: Prototyping on iPad?

00:11:28: Your current role

00:13:18: Swift Playgrounds 4

00:14:05: Where to start?

00:20:28: Apple Watch

00:21:40: Xcode vs Playgrounds 4

00:24:25: Testing your app on Mac vs iPad

00:29:51: UI

00:31:09: Testing iPhone apps on the iPad?

00:32:30: iPhone only apps?

00:33:31: SwiftUI Live Preview

00:35:11: Playgrounds on the Mac?

00:36:16: Adding Capabilities to your App

00:40:05: Core Data

00:41:49: Magic Keyboard and Trackpad

00:43:42: Swift Packages

00:44:10: Early Access

00:45:31: Packages

00:48:13: Sharing apps as Playground files?

00:50:05: Game Development

00:52:12: Shortcut support

00:55:01: Xcode Replacement?

00:57:45: Running your app

00:59:07: App Icon

01:01:42: External Monitor?

01:02:11: Submission Process

01:06:02: Version Control

01:09:50: Working Copy

01:11:50: Community Tidbits?

01:12:08: Paul Hudson

01:14:34: Anything else?

01:20:00: Where can people find you online?

01:20:48: Closing

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