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We discuss feedback to our App Store Review Prompts blog post, ideas for improving Castro’s notifications, answer a listener question about open source, and more.
This episode is brought to you by Steamclock.
Follow-up: App Store Review Prompts (00:11)
- Mentioned in the last episode: Can Apple do better than the rating prompt as it is in 10.3?
- The Blog Post: Notification Are Better Than Alerts
- The Radar: SKStoreReviewController should not be modal
- Daring Fireball: Should iOS 10.3’S App Store Rating Prompts Be Notifications Instead Of Alerts?
Rethinking Castro Notifications for iOS 10 (08:23)
- Here’s a good overview of how notifications work in iOS 10: iOS 10 Notifications: One Step Forward, One Step Back
- Mic - News you actually care about, fast
Open Source Hygiene Features (13:30)
- A question from Philip Blackwell in Australia leads us to discuss the idea of contributing to open source projects for some of the basic “hygiene features” of podcast apps, so that individual developers can focus on the parts of their apps that distinguish them
- Our interview with Jared Sinclair: Having a Chat in Some Kind of Hell
- Pod Wrangler’s back end API
Sponsor: Steamclock (21:21)
This episode is brought to you by Steamclock: Steamclock crafts polished products for iPhone, Android, and the Web.
Beard Grooming Regimen (22:09)
Michael Laccheo asks about beard grooming.
Micro UI (23:39)
- Iconfactory’s new app: Linea
- Tweet from Vincent Bidaux
The guys at @Iconfactory are introducing “micro UI” things only accessible with pencil. Those mini-sliders are indeed functional
All of these things end up just being additive. You can make them available optionally but you can never commit to making your UI about them. That’s where any big ideas you get hit a wall. — Pádraig at (26:49)
Podcast Talk (27:01)
- Serial has set up its own production company: article on Variety.
- All episodes of their next show, S-Town, will be released simultaneously. We discuss ways that podcast apps might could adapt to better suit shows that are intended to be listened in sequence like this.
- Pádraig listens to Hello from the Magic Tavern this way
- Starlee Kine, previously of This American Life, Mystery Show, and Election Profit Makers is on the editorial team for S-Town.
- Oisín recommends Under The Skin: Making Audio Visceral from the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast.
- Which reminds him of The Hospital Always Wins
Outro (35:10)
- Get in touch if you’d like to sponsor a future episode, for only $100.
- Keep sending in your audio comments and questions to future episodes.
- Jayson Kish has the final word
43 episodes
Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on May 17, 2021 19:10 (). Last successful fetch was on July 20, 2019 12:34 ()
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What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.
Manage episode 172340757 series 1314134
We discuss feedback to our App Store Review Prompts blog post, ideas for improving Castro’s notifications, answer a listener question about open source, and more.
This episode is brought to you by Steamclock.
Follow-up: App Store Review Prompts (00:11)
- Mentioned in the last episode: Can Apple do better than the rating prompt as it is in 10.3?
- The Blog Post: Notification Are Better Than Alerts
- The Radar: SKStoreReviewController should not be modal
- Daring Fireball: Should iOS 10.3’S App Store Rating Prompts Be Notifications Instead Of Alerts?
Rethinking Castro Notifications for iOS 10 (08:23)
- Here’s a good overview of how notifications work in iOS 10: iOS 10 Notifications: One Step Forward, One Step Back
- Mic - News you actually care about, fast
Open Source Hygiene Features (13:30)
- A question from Philip Blackwell in Australia leads us to discuss the idea of contributing to open source projects for some of the basic “hygiene features” of podcast apps, so that individual developers can focus on the parts of their apps that distinguish them
- Our interview with Jared Sinclair: Having a Chat in Some Kind of Hell
- Pod Wrangler’s back end API
Sponsor: Steamclock (21:21)
This episode is brought to you by Steamclock: Steamclock crafts polished products for iPhone, Android, and the Web.
Beard Grooming Regimen (22:09)
Michael Laccheo asks about beard grooming.
Micro UI (23:39)
- Iconfactory’s new app: Linea
- Tweet from Vincent Bidaux
The guys at @Iconfactory are introducing “micro UI” things only accessible with pencil. Those mini-sliders are indeed functional
All of these things end up just being additive. You can make them available optionally but you can never commit to making your UI about them. That’s where any big ideas you get hit a wall. — Pádraig at (26:49)
Podcast Talk (27:01)
- Serial has set up its own production company: article on Variety.
- All episodes of their next show, S-Town, will be released simultaneously. We discuss ways that podcast apps might could adapt to better suit shows that are intended to be listened in sequence like this.
- Pádraig listens to Hello from the Magic Tavern this way
- Starlee Kine, previously of This American Life, Mystery Show, and Election Profit Makers is on the editorial team for S-Town.
- Oisín recommends Under The Skin: Making Audio Visceral from the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast.
- Which reminds him of The Hospital Always Wins
Outro (35:10)
- Get in touch if you’d like to sponsor a future episode, for only $100.
- Keep sending in your audio comments and questions to future episodes.
- Jayson Kish has the final word
43 episodes
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