In this episode we have legendary Robert Uncle Bob Martin come over to talk about Clean Code, professionalism, and courage. We cover:- the impact of Clean Code on businesses' ability to change software and make money- management pushback on app

iOS Interview Tips from Engineering Manager and Senior Engineers

Apr 4th, 2023 1h 17m

Sandeep and Alex talk to Aaina Jain and Muralidharan Kathiresan about interviewing in current layoffs prone market, interview stages and tips to be more successful in each.Aaina's medium: https://medium.com/@aainajainMurali: https://unknowndefa

WWDC 2022 Devs Reaction

Jun 29th, 2022 1h 17m

In this episode Alex and Sandeep react to WWDC 2022 Platform State of The Union. This is our very raw, unresearched reaction/opinion on what we heard on latest WWDC changes for iOS development. Some things are just emotions and unfiltered opini

Top 10 iOS Dev Tips

May 15th, 2022 9m 43s

Alex and Sandeep share 10 iOS development tips that you can add to your knowledge base in less than 10 minutes for a better development experience. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterview

Blocked by the backend? Use prod mocks.

Mar 29th, 2022 13m 8s

In this episode Sandeep and Alex showcase how mocks can be used in production code to substitute upcoming unfinished or unreleased backend changes. They use dependency injection and Liskov Substitution Principle to inject a service object imple

Generating Mocks with Sourcery

Feb 26th, 2022 16m 6s

Alex and Sandeep introduce Swift Sourcery, a code generation tool to automatically create mock implementations for interfaces in your code.Sourcery on github: https://github.com/krzysztofzablocki/Sourcery Sign up for Alex's upcoming video cour

Refactoring Large Initializer in Swift. Part 1. Dependency Injection with Default Values and Properties.

Oct 23rd, 2021 25m 6s

In this episode Sandeep and Alex refactor a class with a large initializer into something easier to use. This is part one of this series.Sample code was taken from Fred’s tweet: https://twitter.com/frederickohen/status/1413595709471875072Sign u

RIBs. The Best iOS Architecture.

Sep 26th, 2021 1h 4m

RIBs Resources:- [Original RIB repository](https://github.com/uber/RIBs)- [Uber RIB wiki](https://github.com/uber/RIBs/wiki)- General video: [Uber's new mobile architecture that scales to hundreds of engineers by Tuomas Artman](https://youtube.

Developers/Designers Therapy Session with Michael DeGothsier and Sandeep Aggarwal

Aug 28th, 2021 41m 46s

Alex and Sandeep talk to Michael DeGothsier about challenges developers and designers face working with each other and what approaches and perspectives they might take to improve collaboration.Sandeep's twitter: https://twitter.com/sandeepCool7

2 Ways to Implement VIPER iOS Architecture with its author Jeff Gilbert

Aug 14th, 2021 1h 6m

Alex and Sandeep talk to Jeff Gilbert, the author of VIPER architecture, about evolving understanding of VIPER, complex VIPER apps and compare different way to understand and implement VIPER on projects of all sizes.VIPER Architecture Diagram f

Swift Optional String Or Empty Extension

Jul 20th, 2021 7m 7s

In this episode I walk you through how to create an extension on Optional String type to default nil strings to an empty string. This little shortcut can greatly reduce the amount of ifelsing and if let unwrapping on optional strings in your Sw

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Youtube Channel Announcement

Jun 30th, 2021 3m 3s

I'm transitioning to Youtube! Don't worry, the podcast is not over :) I'll be making more and more screencast style videos instead of just audio podcast format. I'll still be having guest over and have conversations with them about the code and

Builder Design Pattern in Swift with Sandeep Aggarwal

May 31st, 2021 24m 14s

Alex talks to Sandeep Aggarwal about Builder design pattern. They talk about use cases where the pattern is most applicable and how the implementation they made turned out.Sandeep's Twitter https://twitter.com/sandeepCool77Screencast covering B

Saga of The Bug in Collapsing Navigation Bar in Scrolling View

Apr 30th, 2021 36m 25s

Alex talks about unexpected bugs he encountered with the new iOS release and how replacing a 3rd party library with a built-in Apple implementation is not always the silver bullet.Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design

How to Determine Visibility of a View Controller

Mar 29th, 2021 34m 6s

Alex talks about unexpected intricacies and complexities he encountered trying to determine if a given view controller is visible trying to refresh data every time the user sees it. This seems like an overkill but it is more complex then you'd

Unit-testing 101

Nov 29th, 2020 15m 54s

Alex gives an introduction to unit-testing on iOS. He talks about what unit-testing is, how unit-tests are structured, and best practices on organizing your test code. He also touches upon mocking/stubbing and testing side effects as well.Sign

Protected Visibility Modifier in Swift with Daniel Hall

Nov 8th, 2020 16m 28s

Daniel Hall and Alex talk about protected visibility modifier in objective oriented languages and how they wish it was added to Swift language. They talk about reasons for why it is needed and what workarounds you could use to achieve semi-simi

Why I wasn't recording all this time? The Truth Exposed.

Oct 25th, 2020 8m 10s

Alex talks about why he’s been missing in action and haven’t published any podcast episodes in a while.Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for

Law of Demeter, Async Programming, Naming Things with Tom Mornini

Jul 8th, 2020 46m 7s

LinkedIn Law Of Demeter threadTwitter Law Of Demeter threadTom on TwitterTom on LinkedInSign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interviewSign up for Alex's upcoming

Data Observation in SwiftUI with Dainel Hall

Jun 8th, 2020 51m 4s

Alex talks to Daniel Hall about SwiftUI data observation, Environment, EnvironmentObject, ObservableObject, and State. Daniel is an iOS architect at Wayfair.EnvironmentEnvironmentObjectObservableObjectStateDaniel Hall on Twitter @_danielhallSig

iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020 Part 2

Apr 27th, 2020 15m 1s

Alex continues to cover his article iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020. In this episode he covers questions:What is MVC?What do you know about singletons? Where would you use one and where would you not?What’s different betwe

iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020 Part 1

Apr 13th, 2020 15m 21s

Alex talks about an article he recently published - "iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020"He covers first 3 questions from the article:What are the main features and advantages or disadvantages of Swift?What is an iOS applicati

iOS System Design Interview

Mar 30th, 2020 19m 37s

Alex talks about iOS system design interview, what to expect, what's important to focus on and what complexity a potential e-commerce application might have.The iOS System Design Interview Video CourseSign up for Alex's upcoming video course ab

Algorithms Rant

Mar 9th, 2020 14m 22s

Alex rants about data structure and algorithms interviews mobile developers have to go through as they interview for jobs. Algo problems is never something we solve building iOS application then why do we have to be subjected to those questions

VIPER with Jeff Gilbert

Feb 25th, 2020 57m 28s

Alex talks to Jeff Gilbert about VIPER architecture, how it came to be and how this architecture helps scale iOS codebases. Jeff is the author of VIPER.This episode sponsor is healr.io Jeff's twitter @heyjeffgArchitecting iOS Apps with VIPER (o