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 ..read 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. Aaina's medium: https://medium.com/@aainajain Murali:  https://unknowndefault.com/ https://topmate.io/murali_k https://www.linkedin.com/in/muralidharankathiresan/ Prepping for a system design interview? Check out Alex's iOS System Design Interview: video course: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: - https ..read more

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/   Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS ..read more

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.   Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at hello@insideiosdev.com ..read more

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. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at hello ..read more

Alex and Sandeep introduce Swift Sourcery, a code generation tool to automatically create mock implementations for interfaces in your code. Sourcery on github: https://github.com/krzysztofzablocki/Sourcery    Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview  Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com  Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev  Email us at hello@insideiosdev.com ..read more

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 Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlist Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com ..read more

RIBs Resources: - [Original RIB repository](https://github.com/uber/RIBs) - [Uber RIB wiki](https://github.com/uber/RIBs/wiki) - General video: [Uber's new mobile architecture that scales to hundreds of engineers by Tuomas Artman](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FfwZSk6VRVY) - Video 1: [Architecture rewrite](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bB9e7ZYVYCo) - Video 2: [Deep Scope Hierarchies](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWu1HcFIRnQ) - Video 3: [Introduction to RIBs](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5cTT0M0YXg) - Video 4: [Plugins in RIBs](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vIdsYLXClZs) - Blog: [Engineering the Archit ..read more

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. Sandeep's twitter: https://twitter.com/sandeepCool77 New Inside iOS Dev YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/InsideiOSDev Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/system-design-interview Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at hello@ins ..read more

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. VIPER Architecture Diagram from the web: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AneU_VTSiGUE5Rvln8cBdVj0Ztja?e=IWt1hn VIPER Architecture Diagram from its author Jeff Gilbert: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AneU_VTSiGUE5R9MBCMLgr8talep?e=z87kEG Diagram of two ways of implementing VIPER: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AneU_VTSiGUE5B7WZZE5mLiFtLNh?e=QITm0b   Jeff Gilbert's twitter: https://twitter.com/heyjeffg Sandeep ..read more