S3E8: Step 1 is building a great app

In this episode: We talk about the community events taking place alongside WWDC24, discuss what we're hoping to see change in Apple's APIs this year, and share your tips for getting apps ready for iOS 18. One More Thing conference: https://omt-conf.com/ Sponsoring iOS Dev Happy Hour: https://sponsorships.iosdevhappyhour.com Deep Dish Swift: https://deepdishswift.com/ Swift Craft: https://swiftcraft.uk/ Women Who Code is closing down: https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing Mikaela's open-source library for hand tracking on visionOS: https://github.com/mikaelacaron/HANDS Mikaela’s not-so top secret new app: https://getfruitful.app

In this episode: We start to get excited about WWDC24, talk about the pros and cons of pair programming, and share your views on how to make apps more accessible. try! Swift Tokyo: https://tryswift.jp/_en Ignite: ⁠http://github.com/twostraws/Ignite⁠  Vision Pro Dev Camp - ⁠https://visiondevcamp.org⁠  A Beginner’s Guide to Apple Vision Pro, Women Who Code: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x28wNkgdSVi01JXfoc8aNw  WWDC 24: ⁠https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/⁠ Bas Broek on iOS Dev Happy Hour: https://youtu.be/1j6z9guAovI Adrian Eves on Twitter: https://twitter.com/swifteves

In this episode: We discuss why it's so important to attend conferences and other meetups, share the best moments from your careers, and play an all-new game: guess how many credit cards Mikaela has? - Exploring Mars from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/exploring-mars/id6475634958 - Paul's iOS Simulator tip: https://x.com/twostraws/status/1760304617441952038?s=20 - Apple's International Women’s Day event: https://developer.apple.com/events/view/M3M552SRZ6/dashboard - iOS Dev Happy Hour: https://iOSDevHappyHour.com - Cocoa Conferences: https://cocoaconferences.com - SwiftCraft in Folkestone: https://swiftcraft.uk - Deep Dish Swift: https://deepdishswift.com - SwiftConf: https://swiftconf.com - Danielle Lewis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dlewisdev - Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice initiative: https://www.apple.com/racial-equity-justice-initiative/ - Form to be featured in the App Store: https://developer.apple.com/contact/app-store/promote/ - Mikaela's affiliate link for TelemetryDeck: http://bit.ly/3T9Gfqb - Mikaela's affiliate link for CardPointers: https://cardpointers.com/unicorn

In this episode: Swift 5.10 is here, we share our tips on mentoring and being mentored, and try out your Vision Pro apps. - Apple Vision Pro is here: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/02/apple-vision-pro-arrives-in-apple-store-locations-across-the-us/ - Email to Apple developers from Susan Prescott: https://x.com/twostraws/status/1753526820811452729 - Launched podcast with Charlie, Christian, and Devin: https://x.com/LaunchedFM/status/1755597370975478170 - pkl: https://github.com/apple/pkl - xkcd Standards: https://xkcd.com/927 - Nominations for the Packages Community Showcase on Swift.org: https://forums.swift.org/t/nominations-for-the-packages-community-showcase-on-swift-org/68168 - Erica Sadun on being humble as a developer: https://x.com/ericasadun/status/1075178908771729409

In this episode: Apple's Vision Pro is almost here and we couldn't be more excited, we share our tips for building a great app portfolio, and discuss your answers to the open ballot: where do you find app inspiration? - Vision Pro is available to pre-order: https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro - Slopes: https://getslopes.com - Despair, Inc Demotivator: https://despair.com/products/apathy - Upgrade your Mac: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/plus/live-streams/upgrade-your-mac - xkcd Kerning: https://xkcd.com/1015/ - Logical: https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=689 - Willis Gibson beats Tetris: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67871775 - Zach Tidwell on Twitter: https://x.com/ZachCTidwell/status/1743660293115314653

In this episode: We reveal the best way to use your Apple developer subscription, discuss our experience of using AI to build software, and share your tips on the best ways to approach debugging. Merry Christmas, folks! - Everyone gets 25 hours of free Xcode Cloud: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=ik9z4ll6 - How to submit a request to Apple's DTS team: https://developer.apple.com/support/technical - Apple's Journaling Suggestions API: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/journalingsuggestions - Never trust a pilot: https://x.com/twostraws/status/1732544903115157981 - Sharpshooter: https://github.com/twostraws/Sharpshooter - Rob Napier's grim truth: https://x.com/cocoaphony/status/1224364439429881856

In this episode: We review Hacktoberfest and make plans for our future indie projects, share our thoughts on what makes great app architecture, and read out your tips on what's the most useful skill for a developer to have that isn't coding itself. - Packages on Swift.org: https://www.swift.org/packages/showcase.html - Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17: https://blog.timac.org/2023/1019-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-ios17/ - Gui Rambo's iOS architecture inventor: https://iosarchitecture.top - The Gang of Four book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns - Template method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_method_pattern - xkcd Compiling: https://xkcd.com/303/ - xkcd Dependencies: https://xkcd.com/2347/

In this episode: We discuss the value of building a side project you love, chat about Apple's latest Vision Pro sample code, and share your views on our open ballot: should we use Swift everywhere, or learn different languages? - xkcd Ten Thousand: https://xkcd.com/1053/ - Swift Splash: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/visionos/swift-splash - SF Symbols 5: https://developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/ - Mikaela's GitHub Hacktoberfest repo about how much she loves cars: https://github.com/mikaelacaron/Basic-Car-Maintenance - xkcd Standards: https://xkcd.com/927/

In this episode: It's a job interview special, packed with our tips for preparing for interviews so you can really excel, followed by our listeners' tips so you can do the best on the day. - Shared passwords: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-passwords-iphe6b2b7043/ios - iOS Dev Weekly: https://iosdevweekly.com/ - Swift Coding Challenges: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/store/swift-coding-challenges - The Ultimate Portfolio App: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/plus/ultimate-portfolio-app

In this episode: Vision Pro labs, the worst code we've ever written, and we discuss your answers to our open ballot: do developers also need to be designers? Vision Pro labs: https://developer.apple.com/visionos/labs/ List of APIs that require declared reasons: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=z6fu1dcu Lux apps: https://www.lux.camera/