Best Sandeep Aggarwal Podcasts (2024)

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Clean Code’s Impact with Uncle Bob 1:20:32

1y ago1:20:32

1:20:32

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 t…

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iOS Interview Tips from Engineering Manager and Senior Engineers 1:17:31

1+ y ago1:17:31

1:17:31

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 …

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WWDC 2022 Devs Reaction 1:17:38

2y ago1:17:38

1:17:38

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 st…

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Top 10 iOS Dev Tips 9:43

2y ago9:43

9:43

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…

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Blocked by the backend? Use prod mocks. 13:08

2+ y ago13:08

13:08

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 upcom…

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Generating Mocks with Sourcery 16:06

2+ y ago16:06

16:06

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 prepar…

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Refactoring Large Initializer in Swift. Part 1. Dependency Injection with Default Values and Properties. 25:06

3y ago25:06

25:06

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/syst…

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RIBs. The Best iOS Architecture. 1:04:20

3y ago1:04:20

1:04:20

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) - V…

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Developers/Designers Therapy Session with Michael DeGothsier and Sandeep Aggarwal 41:46

3y ago41:46

41:46

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 …

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2 Ways to Implement VIPER iOS Architecture with its author Jeff Gilbert 1:06:08

3y ago1:06:08

1:06:08

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 it…

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Swift Optional String Or Empty Extension 7:07

3y ago7:07

7:07

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: …

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Youtube Channel Announcement 3:03

3y ago3:03

3:03

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 exp…

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Builder Design Pattern in Swift with Sandeep Aggarwal 24:14

3y ago24:14

24:14

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. Sandeep's Twitter https://twitter.com/sandeepCool77 Screencast covering Builder design pattern implementation in Swift can be found here https://youtu.be/EhT-sMo9gJs The article…

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Saga of The Bug in Collapsing Navigation Bar in Scrolling View 36:25

3+ y ago36:25

36:25

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. 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 cours…

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How to Determine Visibility of a View Controller 34:06

3+ y ago34:06

34:06

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. This seems like an overkill but it is more complex then you'd expect. Table of states and viewDidAppear/Foreground notification calls: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AneU_VTSiGUEh…

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Unit-testing 101 15:54

3+ y ago15:54

15:54

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. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.com/syst…

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Protected Visibility Modifier in Swift with Daniel Hall 16:28

3+ y ago16:28

16:28

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. Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosintervi…

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Why I wasn't recording all this time? The Truth Exposed. 8:10

4y ago8:10

8:10

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

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Law of Demeter, Async Programming, Naming Things with Tom Mornini 46:07

4y ago46:07

46:07

LinkedIn Law Of Demeter thread Twitter Law Of Demeter thread Tom on Twitter Tom on LinkedIn 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 prep…

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Data Observation in SwiftUI with Dainel Hall 51:04

4y ago51:04

51:04

Alex talks to Daniel Hall about SwiftUI data observation, Environment, EnvironmentObject, ObservableObject, and State. Daniel is an iOS architect at Wayfair. Environment EnvironmentObject ObservableObject State Daniel Hall on Twitter @_danielhall Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about iOS System Design Interview: https://iosinterviewguide.c…

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iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020 Part 2 15:01

4+ y ago15:01

15:01

Alex continues to cover his article iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020. In this episode he covers questions: What is MVC? What do you know about singletons? Where would you use one and where would you not? What’s different between delegate and KVO? Links: iOS Interview Questions for Senior Developers in 2020 article Alex's book T…

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iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020 Part 1 15:21

4+ y ago15:21

15:21

Alex talks about an article he recently published - "iOS Interview Questions For Senior Developers in 2020" He covers first 3 questions from the article: What are the main features and advantages or disadvantages of Swift? What is an iOS application and where does your code fit into it? How is memory management handled in iOS? Links: iOS Interview …

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iOS System Design Interview 19:37

4+ y ago19:37

19:37

Alex talks about iOS system design interview, what to expect, what's important to focus on and what complexity a potential e-commerce application might have. The iOS System Design Interview Video Course Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://ribsarchitecture.com/video-course-waitlist Need to prepare for an iOS Engi…

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VIPER with Jeff Gilbert 57:28

4+ y ago57:28

57:28

Alex talks to Jeff Gilbert about VIPER architecture, how it came to be and how this architecture helps scale iOS codebases. Jeff is the author of VIPER. This episode sponsor is healr.io Jeff's twitter @heyjeffg Architecting iOS Apps with VIPER (objc.io) https://literati.com/ Sign up for Alex's upcoming video course about RIBs Architecture: http://r…

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Asynchronous Work on iOS (Combine Edition) with Leo Dion 31:41

4+ y ago31:41

31:41

Alex interviews Leo Dion about his recent article Asynchronous Multi-Threaded Parallel World of Swift. They talk about async work on iOS, options developers had previously (from low level to high), and then discuss how new Apple frameworks Swift Nio and Combine helps solve asynchronous tasks on iOS. Unfortunately the chat transcript for this call w…

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Protocol Extension Overuse 24:10

4+ y ago24:10

24:10

Alex explains how overusing extensions and protocol extensions in Swift leads to unpredictable runtime bugs. 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/insideiosde…

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Optionals Are Evil..? 13:33

5y ago13:33

13:33

https://twitter.com/_ivancr/status/1180199237398626304?s=20 Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at hello@insideiosdev.comBy Alex Bush, Andrew Rohn

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Flutter with Rody Davis 35:58

5y ago35:58

35:58

Alex interviews Rody Davis about Flutter, a cross platform framework for iOS and Android development. They also address cross platform development issues Dropbox experienced with their mobile apps. Dropbox drops mobile cross platform C++ Flutter Dropbox's cross platform C++ issues article Rody on Twitter Rody's website Rody's Github Need to prepare…

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Cross-platform code sharing via C++ at Dropbox with Eyal Guthmann 43:49

5y ago43:49

43:49

Recently, Dropbox published a blog illustrating the costs & overhead of using C++ to code share between iOS and Android. The author, Eyal Guthmann from Dropbox, joins us to elaborate more on the topic. Was the problem C++? Why couldn't Dropbox simply hire more C++ developers? Why not React Native or Flutter? Is cross platform mobile development sim…

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VIPER First Impressions 32:40

5y ago32:40

32:40

Alex talks about his first impressions working with VIPER architecture. He walks through each part of the architecture, compares it to RIBs, and talks about modularization. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at hello@insideiosdev.com…

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Dropbox drops mobile cross platform C++ 22:13

5y ago22:13

22:13

Alex and Andrew discuss the latest Dropbox engineering article that announced that Dropbox is dropping their support of cross platform mobile C++ code. Dropbox C++ drop article Running into problems with shared cross platform code in JavaScript is the episode where Alex talked about cross platform code shareability issues using Javascript Sunsettin…

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Vapor with Leo Dion 31:48

5y ago31:48

31:48

Alex talks with Leo Dion about Server Side Swift and Vapor. Leo's twitter Leo's company Leo's Vapor getting started blog post http://learningswift.brightdigit.com/ https://www.empowerapps.show/ https://learningswift.brightdigit.com/vapor-swift-backend-review/ Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with …

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GCD vs RxSwift with Shai Mishali 31:51

5y ago31:51

31:51

Alex and Andrew interview Shai Mishali about advantages of using RxSwift for async operations on iOS instead of Grand Central Dispatch (GCD). Shai's twitter Shai's contributions on Ray Wenderlich website RxSwift: Reactive Programming with Swift (raywenderlich.com book) Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Con…

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WWDC 2019 Woes - The pressures & frustrations of ever-changing tech 25:47

5y ago25:47

25:47

Andrew talks about the pressures & frustrations that often accompany the highs of big tech announcements like WWDC.By Alex Bush, Andrew Rohn

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First thoughts on SwiftUI 35:44

5y ago35:44

35:44

Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdev Email us at hello@insideiosdev.comBy Andrew Rohn, Alex Bush

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WWDC 2019 First Impressions 27:50

5y ago27:50

27:50

Our first impressions after the first day of WWDC 2019. We go over Marzipan/Catalyst, Swift's new Combine framework, SwiftUI, and other bits that caught our attention. Andrew's AppDevCon conference talk WWDC 2019 Keynote WWDC 2019 State of The Union SwiftUI Combine Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com Connect…

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What we learned giving our first tech conference talks 31:30

5y ago31:30

31:30

Alex and Andrew explain a bit why they've been out. Then they both talk about the first conference talks they ever gave and what they learned. AppDevCon conference talk in Amsterdam iOS Coding Tips email list #ioscodingtips on Twitter #ioscodingtips on LinkedIn Twitter @InsideiOSDev hello@insideiosdev.com…

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Asynchronous Frameworks on iOS 12:23

5+ y ago12:23

12:23

Alex talks about what options you have implementing async work on iOS. He starts with the lowest level of abstraction GCD and goes all the way up to PromiseKit and RxSwift. GCD https://developer.apple.com/documentation/dispatch NSOperations https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/operation https://nshipster.com/nsoperation/ PromiseKit …

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Overview of Mocks, Stubs, and Fakes 10:40

5+ y ago10:40

10:40

Alex gives an overview of unit-testing mocks, stubs, and fakes and explains what is the difference between them. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevBy Alex Bush, Andrew Rohn

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Alex on Uber's RIB Architecture 36:02

5+ y ago36:02

36:02

Alex talks about working at Uber and what he's learned from their RIB architecture. Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Connect with us: https://twitter.com/insideiosdevBy Alex Bush, Andrew Rohn

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Q&A: How to start a career in software engineering after prison 22:14

5+ y ago22:14

22:14

Alex & Andrew respond to a listener question about starting a career in software engineering. How to choose between a coding bootcamp and university? What should one learn to be a marketable software engineer? What's the best way to learn? What's the market like for mobile software engineers? And more! Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Si…

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What's new in 2019 plus Alex's new opinion on singletons 22:52

5+ y ago22:52

22:52

Alex has a change of mind on singletons after previously declaring them always "evil". Also, what's new in 2019 and what we have planned. You can find previous singletons episode here http://insideiosdev.com/dde8a34e Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Eng…

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Andrews "Toast View Model" Struggle 31:41

5+ y ago31:41

31:41

Andrew talks about his recent design struggle with trying to work both within and maintaining a Model-View-Presenter architecture in the context of pre-existing code. Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?pr…

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Q&A: How to design an app for scalability? 19:33

6y ago19:33

19:33

Alex answers a listener question. How does one design an app for scalability?Alex answers a question from a listener that just completed an iOS Engineer interview: How does one design an app for scalability? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Int…

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The Problems with View Controllers 23:53

6y ago23:53

23:53

Andrew describes & discusses the various problems with view controllers. Find Paul Hudson (@twostraws) at https://www.hackingwithswift.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Need to prepare for an iOS Engineer Interview? https://iosinterviewguide.com/?promo=inside-ios-dev-ref Conn…

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Evolving Mobile Architecture at Reddit 21:57

6y ago21:57

21:57

Andrew talks about the recent architectural refactoring work he did at Reddit. He explains how the iOS team moved from an MVC architecture to a Model View Presenter (MVP) architecture. He also talks about Texture -- an async layout framework for fast scrolling feeds. This episode was originally recorded March 2018. Wanna chat with other smart iOS d…

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Q&A episode: React Native & the cultish force of Javascript 27:13

6y ago27:13

27:13

We answer a listeners questions. What is the threat/benefit of React Native? What's happening to the job market because of React Native? How do you stay immune to the cultish force of the Javascript religion? What effect will WebAssembly have on web development? Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.i…

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Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift with Kelvin Lau & Vincent Ngo 15:12

6y ago15:12

15:12

Ray Wenderlich authors Kelvin Lau & Vincent Ngo come on the show to discuss their book "Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift". https://store.raywenderlich.com/products/data-structures-and-algorithms-in-swift https://www.raywenderlich.com/1108-join-the-swift-algorithm-club To enter our contest to for a chance to win a free copy of the book tweet …

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John Sundell on Unit Testing 32:42

6y ago32:42

32:42

We talk with acclaimed iOS & Swift blogger John Sundell about unit testing is. We start out with just unit testing is and then move into details: when & how to do unit testing, tdd, and more! Find John Sundell at https://www.swiftbysundell.com/ Wanna chat with other smart iOS developers? Sign up for our free forum: https://forum.insideiosdev.com Ha…

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Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift with David Kopec 26:05

6y ago26:05

26:05

We speak with David Kopec, professor & iOS developer consultant, about his book "Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift". What can you learn from solving classic CS problems such as search, constraint-satisfaction, graph problems and more? David gives a brief explanation of some of the interesting problems in the book such as K-Means clustering…

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