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Ben Scheirman of NSScreenCast comes on to talk about migrating apps such as a Nike's Sneakers app from UIKit to SwiftUI and all the little things you don't think about. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview.

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• Ben Scheirman | Ben is an experienced software engineer from Houston, TX. Currently focused on Swift, iOS, Ruby, and Rust.
• Ben Scheirman (@bens@mastodon.xyz) - Mastodon
• subdigital (Ben Scheirman)
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Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - Who is Ben Scherman
• (02:38) - Migrating Apps to Swift UI
• (07:03) - Challenges with Swift UI and iOS Versions
• (10:24) - Using Introspect for Swift UI
• (16:44) - Implementing Collection View in Swift UI
• (25:05) - Exploring iOS 18 Scroll View API
• (25:30) - SwiftUI vs UIKit: Productivity and Constraints
• (26:38) - Design and Engineering Collaboration
• (29:43) - Stages of Migrating to SwiftUI
• (34:14) - SwiftUI Navigation and Environment Bindings
• (39:44) - Retain Cycles and Memory Management

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