107: “UIKit in 2021”, with special guest Ben Scheirman

Ben Scheirman returns to the show to talk about modern UIKit-based app development, how UIKit has evolved over the past few years, and how its API design and usage has been influenced by the introduction of frameworks like SwiftUI and Combine.

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Links

• Ben on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• NSScreencast
• The Combine Swift course
• Tonal Therapy
• The previous episode with Ben about UICollectionView
• “What’s new in UIKit”, from WWDC21
• Using compiler directives in Swift
• Discover Combine
• PromiseKit
• Ben’s NSSpain talk about PromiseKit and Combine
• Map, FlatMap and CompactMap
• Episode with Daniel Steinberg
• Using Combine’s subjects
• Async sequences
• The coordinator pattern
• View models
• Previewing UIKit-based code
• Published properties
• The delegate pattern
• Logic controllers
• Grand Central Dispatch
• Handling view loading states
• KVO (Key-Value Observing)
• NotificationCenter
• UIColorPickerViewController
• UIMenu
• SwiftUI and UIKit interoperability
• UIAppearance
• Peter Steinberger on Twitter
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk