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 applying Clean Code practices and how to handle it - how managers get to the truth and how developers get to the truth - professionalism, courage to take risk and saying NO despite potentially being fired - writing tests to reduce risks working with legacy (and not legacy) code - code ownership and pair programming - following the code rules you establish - a rapid questions round - ask listeners' questions - and much more

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.

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 opinions, some are things we already looked into. We'll be doing deep dives in other videos into some of the stuff we covered that we're not sure or don't know much about or stuff that deserves more attention. You can find the video we covered here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/102/

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.

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 implementation that uses local hardcoded data instead of fetching it from the network.

Alex and Sandeep introduce Swift Sourcery, a code generation tool to automatically create mock implementations for interfaces in your code.

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/1413595709471875072

Alex Bush and Franz Busch give an overview of RIBs architecture on iOS.

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.

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.

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 Swift codebase. This episode's video screencast: https://youtu.be/qzuFvUVuH9U This episode's audio podcast: https://insideiosdev.com/episodes/swift-optional-string-or-empty-extension Inside iOS Dev YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zcA3dAMUWN8E2_dlg_WyQ

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 I'll be cross posting screencast episodes on the podcast as well. This new direction will allow me to explain the concepts and showcase the code examples better as the audio format can only do so much. Please hop on over to Youtube. You can find the channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zcA3dAMUWN8E2_dlg_WyQ Please share, like, and subscribe to it as it will greatly help me get this channel up and running. Hope to see and hear your feedback and have better content quality there. Let me know what you think and I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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-similar result.

Alex talks about why he’s been missing in action and haven’t published any podcast episodes in a while.

Alex talks to Tom Mornini about the Law of Demeter and asynchronous programming, Go language, inexperienced developers, SOLID principles, MVC, Ruby on Rails, naming things, polymorphism, and much more.

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