Episode Details

Guests

• Josh Berlin - @jab2109
• René Cacheaux - @RCachATX

Book - Advanced iOS App Architecture

Links

• Swinject
• RxSwift
• Advanced Unidirectional Architecture with Rene Cacheaux - Live Tutorial Session - RWDevCon 2018
• Alcatraz RIP
• Xcode Extensions

Previous Episodes

• Episode 7: Apple 2019
• Episode 8: Cloud and Backend Services
• Episode 12: iOS Developer Interviews with Alex Bush

Show Notes

Challenges with Architecture in iOS Application Development

• Dealing with the lack of guidance from Apple
• Slow team velocity caused By large volumes of code
• Architecture is important when the team is large enough to benefit

• The need to slow down and establish an architecture in an app
• constant communication and early meeting to discuss patterns and practices (i.e. Architecture)
• How team dynamic affects the need for leadership

Applying Patterns to iOS Application Architecture 

• MVC vs Other Patterns such as RxSwift
• How design patterns naturally develop
• Using third party libraries
• The importance of team DNA
• The importance of dependency injection
• Tooling - iOS and Swift vs Android and Kotlin
• The problems with Storyboards and having healthy architecture

WWDC Hopes and Dreams

Josh Berlin - @jab2109

• Dark Theme (iOS)

René Cacheaux - @RCachATX

• Marzipan
• Swift Concurrency Primitives

Leo Dion - @leogdion

• Xcode Improvements
• More Exposure for Services and Server Side Swift
• Swift Package Manager
• More Developer Tools

What happened to Alcatraz and Xcode Extensions?

Social Media

Twitter - @brightdigit
Facebook - BrightDigit

Brand New Instagram! - @brightdigit

Transcript

Leo Dion (Host): [00:00:00] Hello, welcome to another episode of EmpowerApps Show today. We have with us René Cacheaux and Josh Berlin. Guys, th