Creating great apps for Apple’s mobile devices.
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Published 18 August 2014 • 53 minutes, 48 seconds
Basil Shkara - indie developer and creator of Bee - joins Ben and Jelly to discuss succeeding as an indie developer, marketing your app, and the scary world of SEO optimisation.
Published 4 August 2014 • 1 hour, 18 minutes
Ben, Jake and Jelly discuss access control, using target/selector style method calls, and avoiding retain cycles in Swift (with a recap on how to debug them with Heapshot Analysis). They then take a look at test-driven development, asynchronous tests, and learning on-the-job. Plus, Moodstocks’ new pricing structure, the competitive GIF app market, and the failures of voice command interfaces.
Published 21 July 2014 • 1 hour, 12 minutes
Jelly hasn’t had enough discussion of diversity yet, Jake discusses whether Apple should use a stick or a carrot to try to enforce accessible apps, and Ben explains how the Swift runtime works.
When it turned out that the life of an airline pilot wasn’t going to cut it, Ben turned to developing software. Originally from New Zealand, Ben now lives in Canberra, and works as part of Stripy Sock.
Ben has developed everything from educational games (such as Shiny Things’ Quick Math) to simple utilities for pilots. He has a head for algorithms, a penchant for toying with low-level code, and acts as the couch’s resident Android expert.
Sometimes he wishes he was flying instead.
The creator of GIFwrapped, as well as several open-source libraries, Jelly spends his days as an independent developer, moonlighting as a consultant on occasions where it suits his whims.
Having come from a design and illustration background, Jelly’s skill set lies in creating user interfaces, finding ways to interact with and delight the users of his apps, as well as coming up with truly awful names for his open-source libraries.
That, and his terrible jokes.