Talking Firebase with Arthur Thompson

In this Episode of talking with Apples, we talk to Arthur Thompson a developer advocate on the @Firebase team about some of Firebase's newer products and how they can help you achieve great app quality but also improve your app development when using firebase. https://firebase.google.com/docs/emulator-suite https://firebase.google.com/docs/crashlytics https://firebase.google.com/docs/test-lab Twitter: @pjapplez Arthur's Twitter: @kroikie

In this episode of talking with Apples we speak to Nick Rout about Design systems. What it is? Is it useful to create and how will it benefit your workflow as a developer and a designer. Nick's Twitter/X : @ricknout PJ Twitter: @pjapplez A comprehensive guide to design systems | Inside Design Blog DesignSystems.com Atomic Design | Brad Frost Design systems in Compose | Jetpack Compose | Android Developers Compose Multiplatform for iOS Is in Alpha | The Kotlin Blog (see ‘Theming Compose Multiplatform for iOS’ section) GitHub - alexzhirkevich/compose-look-and-feel: Compose Multiplatform UI components for iOS (Cupertino Widgets) and more. Work in progress... Creating DoorDash’s native mobile design system - Camden Asay, Matthew Burg, Will Hou, Ayanna Kosoko

In this episode of talking with apples, we speak to John O'Reilly about cross platform development and Kotlin Multiplatform. We take a deep dive into what these are, how well they are doing amongst developers and what business think about them. We also spoke about SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose and how these native UI toolkits is changing the way we do mobile development. We also spoke briefly around tooling for KMM. We also touched on GraphQL a bit and Ktor and how they are effecting the mobile space.  PJ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pjapplez John's Twitter:  https://twitter.com/joreilly John's Blog: https://johnoreilly.dev/ John's Github: https://github.com/joreilly Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile: https://kotlinlang.org/lp/mobile/

In this episode of talking with Apples we talk to Pamela Hill about all things Kotlin. We took a deep dive into what is Kotlin as a programming language, some of its popular features such as coroutines, a little bit of Kotlin Multiplatform and much more. We also discussed great learning material and resources to help listens that are looking to learn this very popular language.  Twitter Pamela: https://twitter.com/pamelaahill Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/ Android Kotlin : https://developer.android.com/courses/android-basics-kotlin/course Coroutines for Android: https://developer.android.com/kotlin/coroutines KMM : https://kotlinlang.org/docs/kmm-overview.html

In this episode of talking with Apples I spoke to Jossi Wolf who has been working with Jetpack Compose in Production since the Alpha version. We spoke about hes experiences with this new UI framework, whats great about it, what struggles he faced and state of Jetpack Compose now that is 1.0. We also spoke about the compatibility of all the existing libraries that we all use on a daily and how Compose fits into existing apps. https://twitter.com/jossiwolf https://twitter.com/pjapplez https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose

In this episode of Talking with Apples, I spoke to Keegan Rush about Apple App Distribution. We spoke about what app distribution is, what the process is of distributing your app to the Apple AppStore, what provisioning profiles and certificates are and most importantly how to automate this whole process either using your own scripts or using Fastlane. Happy Listening https://twitter.com/pjapplez https://twitter.com/RushKeegan https://www.thecodedself.com/ https://www.raywenderlich.com/books/ios-app-distribution-best-practices

In this episode of Talking with Apples I speak to Majid who is an Indie iOS Engineer and builds most of he's apps with SwiftUI these days. We spoke about what SwiftUI is and how it differs from UIKit. The took a deep dive into what is like to develop apps in a declarative and reactive way with SwiftUI and Combine. We also spoke about how easy SwiftUI has made developing apps with architectures such as MVVM and made it easier to test UI. Lastly we covered how there are still components that SwiftUI does not have and the what the future holds for iOS development with SwiftUI.  Majid Twitter: https://twitter.com/mecid Majid's Blog : https://swiftwithmajid.com/ SwiftUI Weekly: http://weekly.swiftwithmajid.com/ Apples getting started with SwiftUI: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/  PJ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pjapplez

In this episode, I chatted to Robert Clegg an Engineering Lead about the state of Mobile development. We discuss what the state of Native development is with new frameworks and tools like Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI that are changing the way developers think about app development. We also discussed Cross platform frameworks like Flutter, React Native and PWA's and if they are approaches business's should be taking. We also spoke a little about Kotlin Multiplatform and where it falls into the equation and if it might be the platform that takes over mobile.  PJ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pjapplez Robert Twitter: https://twitter.com/RJ_Clegg

In this episode of talking with Apples, we spoke to Florina Muntenescu about Architecture components and other Jetpack libraries that Google develops. We took a deep dive into each different component and what its purpose is. We covered ViewModel, Room, Paging, LiveData, DataStore, Hilt and Work Manager. We also spoke around what Alpha, Beta and Stable means to the Android team and much more.  Twitter PJ: https://twitter.com/pjapplez Twitter Florina: https://twitter.com/FMuntenescu Issue Tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues Architecture Components Docs: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture Codelabs : https://codelabs.developers.google.com/?cat=android

In this episode of Talking with Apples we chat to Kilo Loco( Kyle) about AWS Amplify. We deep dive into the tool suite and what it can offer mobile developers. This included API's Databases, Storage and more.  PJ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pjapplez Twitter for Kilo: https://twitter.com/Kilo_Loco Amplify Site: https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/ Amplify Sandbox : https://sandbox.amplifyapp.com/getting-started AmplifyDocs: https://docs.amplify.aws/ Kilos Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KiloLoco