Swiftly Speaking

By Paul Hudson

Join Paul Hudson as he speaks to a range of guests from the Swift development community, asking questions from the audience and more.... more

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How many episodes does Swiftly Speaking have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.

Swiftly Speaking episodes:

May 10, 2020 Episode 6: Janina Kutyn
In this episode, Paul talks to Janina Kutyn about her tips for creating high-performance layouts with UIKit, building adaptive layouts that work great on all iOS devices, and making the most of CALayer and its friends.
Detailed topics:
Introduction How fast is UIKit on modern iPhones? Is there a performance cost to using Auto Layout? How can you identify UIKit performance issues? What common mistakes do UIKit developers make? What's on your wishlist for UIKit this WWDC 2020? Is UIKit over as SwiftUI is the new rising star? How to optimise table views in UIKit What's better: programmatic layouts or storyboards? Pro tips for UIKit performance What is CALayer and why is it so important? How to best utilise CALayers Can you draw a CALayer without a UIView? Core Animation and UIKit performance comparisons Why should developers make more iPad apps? Should you design for a big screen or small screen first? What are the common problems when designing for different-sized screens? How to test different layouts effectively 1:19:12 What other tools can help us make adaptive layouts? Tips for working with adaptive layouts
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1h 28min
May 01, 2020 Episode 5: Daniel Steinberg
In this episode, Paul talks to Daniel Steinberg about functional programming, monads, Swift Evolution, and more.
Detailed topics:
• What is functional programming in Swift?
• What is the definition of functional programming in Swift?
• What are the advantages of functional programming in Swift?
• Are there any disadvantages to functional programming in Swift?
• What are the first steps for functional programming in Swift?
• How to improve your functional programming skills?
• What are monads?
• What problem does Combine solve?
• Is Combine only for SwiftUI developers?
• What is Combine missing?
• How to encourage idiomatic usage of Combine
• Is SwiftLint ready for SwiftUI?
• How to break up structs and classes
• How to keep up with Swift Evolution
• Microsoft and open source
• How well is Swift Evolution working?
• Why are function builders fundamental in SwiftUI?
• What would make Swift.org better?
• What's the most exciting feature of future Swift?

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1h 18min
April 22, 2020Episode 4: Kaya Thomas
In this episode, Paul talks to Kaya Thomas about marketing indie apps, push notifications, identifying SwiftUI errors, and more.
Detailed topics:
Should you learn SwiftUI or UIKit?

What are the pros and cons of learning SwiftUI?

Tips on identifying SwiftUI errors

Building SwiftUI apps for macOS and watchOS

Would you make a Catalyst App?

What's the future of UIKit?

What is We Read Too?

The development of We Read Too

What's the fastest way to ship an indie app?

How much time should you invest working on side projects?

What is Kaya's side project right now?

How to market an indie app

Tips on making a great side project

What's better: building a GitHub profile or shipping an app on the App Store?

Pro tips on push notifications

Most common mistakes with push notifications

What is it like to interview for big companies?

Diversity and inclusion in iOS development teams
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1h 38min
April 15, 2020Episode 3: John Sundell
In this episode, Paul talks to John Sundell about his tips for getting a job, how to improve your Swift skills, how to start writing your own articles about iOS development, and more.
Detailed topics:
2:48 – How to get your first iOS developer job

10:03 – How to improve your Swift skills

11:42 – Building a portfolio: should you ship an app or put code on GitHub?

13:50 – Do programmers need a computer science degree?

18:32 – How to do well at a programming interview

22:47 – What was the turning point in John's career

24:24 – Where to apply for jobs?

25:49 – What's better: being a specialist or a generalist?

28:03 – How to move up from being a junior developer

34:49 – How to keep up to date with Swift

40:06 – How to start learning a new API or framework

46:40 – Why coding for curiosity is so important

51:10 – The best thing you have unlearnt

53:13 – How can you get started writing about Swift and iOS?

58:11 – How to get over the 'but it's already been written about' roadblock

1:04:03 – The John Sundell writing process

1:08:47 – Tips for delivering a programming talk

1:15:18 – How to stay productive at home

1:20:35 – Songs by Sundell

1:23:01 – Top three tips for working from home

1:27:31 – John's wish list for WWDC2020
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1h 37min
April 06, 2020Episode 2: Ellen Shapiro
In this episode, Paul talks to Ellen Shapiro about her approach to testing, Swift Package Manager, GraphQL, and more.
Detailed topics:
Productivity in uncertain times

Understanding Apollo GraphQL

Is GraphQL only a query language or does it refer to an actual database?

Killer features of GraphQL: code generation, flexibility, and efficiency

How to integrate GraphQL with your app

Is it possible to use GraphQL with an existing Core Data stack?

How much work is it to migrate a server from REST to GraphQL?

Ellen's recommendation on language for backend GraphQL

A pragmatic approach to testing

UI testing breadth vs execution time

How to add the first tests to a project

Should you write tests as you go or all at the end?

How do you write testable code?

What things must be tested?

Tips for swaying clients away from 100% test coverage

How to keep testing coverage up over time

Assertions and preconditions vs guard and fatal errors

Using Swift Package Manager and CocoaPods instead of Carthage

The SwiftPM team has been working on landing all current adoption blockers

Why video is better than text to communicate

Opinions on working from home

What is Horror Scrolling?

Should junior developers work remotely?

How to get your first iOS Development job

What Ellen expects from this WWDC20
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1h 54min
March 28, 2020Episode 1: James Thomson
In this episode, Paul talks to James Thomson about how to get featured on the App Store, creating a good work from home environment, and how to market indie apps successfully.
Detailed topics:
How to get featured on App Store

The effects of being featured by Apple

Promotional artwork request by Apple

Project management

How much should be in a release?

PCalc evolution and code sharing

Catalyst and code sharing

Spoiler alert! Star Trek the Motion Picture

New curser/hover button support for iOS coming

Functionality and aesthetics

PCalc about screen and work philosophy

How does one start with AR?

From SceneKit, moving onto AR

PCalc about screen

The byproducts of learning: new content and unintended new products

Dice and mental health, how to stay sane when working from home

Mental wellbeing: games and recreational coding

Solidarity with folks finding it difficult to work

Be kind to yourself

How to create a good working environment

Take care of yourselves

Is this Apple’s chance to use WWDC 2020 to create a good online conference experience?

Is SwiftUI going to be the future and is it going to replace UIKit?

Parallels between UIKit and SwiftUI advancing

What do you think of Apple’s own calculator apps?

What will Apple ship for iPadOS first: Xcode or Calculator?

What new tech is going to go into Dice/PCalc next?

Does advertising on other sites help?

Thoughts on marketing

Thoughts on subscriptions and Apple Arcade
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1h 47min

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How many episodes does Swiftly Speaking have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.

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