Empower Apps

Guest

• Majid Jabrayilov
  • SwiftWithMajid.com
  • SwiftUI Weekly
  • Twitter @mecid

Related Episodes

• Episode 56 - SwiftUI with Majid Jabrayilov - Part 1
• Episode 55 - WWDC 2020 and Xcode 12 with Vadim Shpakovski - Part 2
• Episode 54 - WWDC 2020 and Xcode 12 with Vadim Shpakovski - Part 1
• Episode 53 - WWDC 2020 - Quick Thoughts
• Episode 47 - Practical Combine with Donny Wals
• Episode 40 - Handling Errors Correctly with Jeff Kelley
• Episode 35 - SwiftUI - The Good, the Bad, and the Benefits
• Episode 30 - Quickie: Swift UI and 2020 Trends
• Episode 19 - WWDC 2019 - Swift UI with Jason Anderson

Related Links

• Swift with Majid - What's new in SwiftUI
• Swift with Majid - The difference between @StateObject, @EnvironmentObject, and @ObservedObject in SwiftUI
• Swift with Majid - New property wrappers in SwiftUI
• Swift with Majid -The magic of Animatable values in SwiftUI
• SwiftUI Property Wrappers by Donny Walls

WWDC Videos - We Loved

• Build complications in SwiftUI
• Create complications for Apple Watch
• App essentials in SwiftUI
• Build document-based apps in SwiftUI

Sponsors

AppFiguresThe tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

If you want your app to succeed, there's never been a better time to read up on App Store Optimization and Appfigures provides that for you.

• Check out their great articles and guides on app store optimization
• Brand new teardowns of specific apps, like Spotify for instance.
• Check out more of their resources at appfigures.com/resources.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

360iDev - August 16 - 19 (Remote)

• The Leading indie iOS/Mac (and watchOS, and tvOS) Developer conference
• It's all about Community and Code!
• Four days of hands-...

Guests

• Josh Berlin - @jab2109
• René Cacheaux - @RCachATX

Book - Advanced iOS App Architecture

Links

• Swinject
• RxSwift
• Advanced Unidirectional Architecture with Rene Cacheaux - Live Tutorial Session - RWDevCon 2018
• Alcatraz RIP
• Xcode Extensions

Previous Episodes

• Episode 7: Apple 2019
• Episode 8: Cloud and Backend Services
• Episode 12: iOS Developer Interviews with Alex Bush

Show Notes

Challenges with Architecture in iOS Application Development

• Dealing with the lack of guidance from Apple
• Slow team velocity caused By large volumes of code
• Architecture is important when the team is large enough to benefit

• The need to slow down and establish an architecture in an app
• constant communication and early meeting to discuss patterns and practices (i.e. Architecture)
• How team dynamic affects the need for leadership

Applying Patterns to iOS Application Architecture

• MVC vs Other Patterns such as RxSwift
• How design patterns naturally develop
• Using third party libraries
• The importance of team DNA
• The importance of dependency injection
• Tooling - iOS and Swift vs Android and Kotlin
• The problems with Storyboards and having healthy architecture

WWDC Hopes and Dreams

Josh Berlin - @jab2109

• Dark Theme (iOS)

René Cacheaux - @RCachATX

• Marzipan
• Swift Concurrency Primitives

Leo Dion - @leogdion

• Xcode Improvements
• More Exposure for Services and Server Side Swift
• Swift Package Manager
• More Developer Tools

What happened to Alcatraz and Xcode Extensions?

Social Media

Twitter - @brightdigit
Facebook - BrightDigit

Brand New Instagram! - @brightdigit

Transcript

Leo Dion (Host): [00:00:00] Hello, welcome to another episode of EmpowerApps Show today. We have with us René Cacheaux and Josh Berlin. Guys, thanks for coming on.

René Cacheaux (Guest): [00:00:08] Thanks for having us.

Josh Berlin (Guest): [00:00:09] Yeah.

Leo Dion (Host): [00:00:09] So I've heard a lot of issues that companies have with architecture especially architecture with iOS apps and I know you guys have a book coming out as part of the Ray Wenderlich series - IOS app architecture. So this is something I'm really interested [in]. Maybe if you can kind of define the problems you've seen a lot of companies run into when it comes to architecting a successful mobile app, especially in iOS.

René Cacheaux (Guest): [00:00:40] Yeah, one of the biggest challenges with iOS development is that there's really no strong opinion from Apple. So everyone's really kind of left to roll their own patterns. The biggest issues that I've seen is just slow in-team velocity, ...

Guest

• Rob Kerr - @rekerrsive

Why should companies go with a cross-platform solution?

• Consistent User Experience (whether that's a good idea or not)
• Synchronicity in Code Base
• Budget - Use existing team expertise

What are the differences between cross-platform solutions?

• Web Based - Cordova, Ionic, PhoneGap
• Bridging Solution - Flutter, React Native, NativeScript
• Language Based - Xamarin - Use C# to Call Native API

What are the challenges with cross-platform solution?

• Dependent on Vendor Support
  • Dev teams need to keep Cross-Platform Tooling up to date
• Using a Specific API (Metal, HealthKit, etc...)
  • May not be supported by Cross-Platform Tool
• There may be instances such as UI - you want differences between devices

Social Media

Twitter - @brightdigit
Facebook - BrightDigitLinkedIn - BrightDigitInstagram - @brightdigit

Transcript

[00:00:00] Leo Dion (Host): Today with us. We have Rob Kerr. You want to go ahead and introduce yourself.

[00:00:05] Rob Kerr (Guest): My name is Rob Kerr. I'm a consultant working primarily in mobile platforms a lot of native development but more and more it's cross-platform with Xamarin, Flutter, and some other tools and I work with primarily business customers who are looking to deliver applications to both IOS and Android with the most efficient development process that they can experience.

[00:00:29] Leo Dion (Host): Awesome, really glad to have you on Rob. I've known you for three or four years now. It seems like.

[00:00:35] Rob Kerr (Guest): Something like that.

[00:00:37] Leo Dion (Host): Yeah, and we've met either at meetups or touch base every so often. So it sounds like recently you've been doing a lot of cross-platform development. And like I said, I have a little bit of experience with that of dabbled a little bit in Cordova as well.

[00:00:54] My bread-and-butter, my expertise is obviously Swift [that is] native Swift development. That's what I like to do. I think it has a lot of advantages but there could be situations like business reasons valid business reasons to go cross-platform, right?

[00:01:10] Rob Kerr (Guest): Yeah, I think so. And I think you and I have similar backgrounds in solutions as far as Apple. I've done a ton of native development in Swift and iOS and some on Android as well. Probably the last year or two a lot of my work has been cross platform and it's kind of driven by that business need or want to you know, hit both platforms efficiently. And currently in the IOS app store has you know about 1.8 million apps and the Play Store has about 2.1 million but the stats tell us that I think AppFigures had a study that only 450 thousand apps are truly cross platform where the same application is deployed in both platforms, which is you know, it's really small numbers less than 10 percent.

[00:01:54] And so when will you find is you know, Everyone would kind of like to be on both platforms at the same time, but not a lot of folks are or at least not not an efficient way. So in the past you mentioned Cordova and PhoneGap and probably five or six years ago that was almost the only game in town.

[00:02:11] But now this cross-platform frameworks are you know sprouting up quite a bit and all of the mega vendors offer something like Flutter or React Native or Xamarin from Microsoft. And so it's definitely coming into its own and there's certainly those those applications like business applications, especially where you need to have both platforms, but maybe don't want to fund building the app twice once for each so yeah, I think so.

[00:02:38] Leo Dion (Host): What are some situations where businesses should choose cross platform as opposed to a native?

[00:02:46] Rob Kerr (Guest): Yeah, that's a good question. And that's you know comes up a lot because the sort of the reasons not to usually drive into accessing very exotic APIs and things like that. In my mind if a business really wants to deliver on both platforms, especially if they like to do it at the same time that kind of tends toward cross-platform if you can particularly if the user experience they wanted to be the same on both...

Guest

• Leah Vogel - Twitter: @leah_m_vogel
  • LinkedIn
  • Medium
  • UIKonf 2020 - Leah Vogel - Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad BLE

Related Episodes

• Episode 40 - Handling Errors Correctly with Jeff Kelley
• Episode 53 - WWDC 2020 - Quick Thoughts

Related Links

• WWDC 2020 - Meet Nearby Interaction
• BlueSee BLE Debugger

WWDC Videos - We Loved

• Build complications in SwiftUI
• Create complications for Apple Watch
• App essentials in SwiftUI
• Build document-based apps in SwiftUI

Sponsors

AppFiguresThe tools you need to monitor, optimize, and get more downloads.

If you want your app to succeed, there's never been a better time to read up on App Store Optimization and Appfigures provides that for you.

• Check out their great articles and guides on app store optimization
• Brand new teardowns of specific apps, like Spotify for instance.
• Check out more of their resources at appfigures.com/resources.

The folks at Appfigures have easy step-by-step guides and intuitive tools to do that, which many indie developers are using to get more downloads:
https://appfigures.com/resources/aso

Also check out our episode with CEO Ariel Michaeli:
https://share.transistor.fm/s/15b7ff63

Try Appfigures for free, and if you like it use the special link to get 30% off for the next 3 months:https://appfigures.com/account/upgrade?p=empower3030

Bluetooth 101

• Origins of Bluetooth
• Where Bluetooth is a good fit?
• What is Peripheral?
• Profiles, Services and Characteristics
• What's the difference between Classic and BLE?
• How to measure signal strength?
• How to pull extra information from a Characteristic?

Development Challenges

• Similarities with Networking
• Decoding and Encoding Data from Bluetooth
• Why Mocking is Important in iOS Development
• Using the Mac for Testing APIs
• Dealing with Connectivity Issues
• Connection Peculiarities
• How can Bluetooth be misused?

Social Media

Email
[email protected]
GitHub - @brightdigit

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/)

Peter comes on and we use our Apple Intelligence to speak about the greatness of the WWDC 2024 Platforms State of the Union.

Guest

• Peter Witham - Compileswift.com - Twitter

Related Episodes

• Episode 151 - Platforms State of Union 2023 with Peter Witham
• CompileSwift - Apple WWDC23 Keynote reactions and analysis with Leo G. Dion
• Episode 149 - How to WWDC with Peter Witham
• Episode 124 - WWDC 2022 - Platforms State of the Union with Peter Witham

We talked about

• (00:00) - Privacy and User Control in AI
• (04:56) - The Vision Pro Device and its Potential
• (14:35) - Apple Intelligence
• (21:57) - Swift Turns 10
• (25:15) - Expanding Swift's Reach: Linux and Windows Support
• (29:18) - Advancements in Swift 6: Typed Throws and Non-Copyable Structs
• (35:41) - Enhancing Code Safety with Data Race Detection
• (37:15) - Apple's Use of Swift Internally and the Impact on SwiftUI
• (40:17) - Satisfaction with the Announcements and Anticipation for the Future

Social Media

Twitter Leo - @leogdionTwitter BrightDigit - @brightdigit
LinkedIn - @leogdion
GitHub - @brightdigit
GitHub - @leogdion
TikTok - @brightdigit
Mastodon - @[email protected]
Youtube - @brightdigit

Credits

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