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Guest

• Alex Bush - Twitter @alex_v_bush
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  • iOS Interview Guide 
  • Inside iOS Dev Podcast

Related Episodes

• Episode 12 - iOS Developer Interviews with Alex Bush
• Episode 23 - Modularizing in Xcode with Abbey Jackson
• Inside iOS Dev - First Thoughts on SwiftUI
• Inside iOS Dev - WWDC 2019
• Inside iOS Dev - Protocol Extensions

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• 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform
• Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift

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Podcast Update in 2020

• EmpowerApps is Moving to 3 episodes per month
• About the Inside iOS Dev Podcast

Xcode Wish List

Leo

• Improvements to Auto Completion and SourceKit
• Improvements to Playgrounds
• Brand New IDE (similar to Objective-C, iTunes, UIKit, etc...)
• XcodeGen - Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project
• Better Support for Modularization and Swift Packages
• Fastlane - App Automation 
• swift-sh - Swift Scripting
• Speculid - Asset Management and Using SVGs

Alex

• Fix Look Up References in Xcode
• Vim Support - XVim2
• Buck - A high-performance build tool
• Guard - automate testing
• More Command Line Tools and Automation

Swift Wish List

Leo

• Add More UI to SwiftUI
• More Guidance on Complex Data Binding
• Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift- Add Async and Await
• Better Asynchronous Unit Testing
• In-App Purchases for the Watch

Alex

• Alex's thoughts on SwiftUI
• Combine and Reactive Programming vs RxSwift
• SwiftUI and UIKit interop
• Alex's thoughts on Protocol Extensions
• Instant apps?

Future-Proofing with SwiftUI

• Abstracting Implementation Details for Future Hardware
• Learn Once and Code Everywhere 
• Not Ready For Production Now But is the Future
• Perfect for the Apple Watch
• Likely to Change in the Future
• Backwards Support for UIKit/AppKit
• UIActivityIndicatorView

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