In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Alex Bush talks to Tom Hammond about game app monetization and live ops in mobile gaming. They cover different ways to monetize your game and complexities of showing popups, surveys, and other live in-game events to players. Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel Alex Bush Guest Tom Hammond Links Podcast – The Monetization Minute Roast my app – free advice for apps https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-hammond/ https://www.theoremreach.com/ Picks Alex Bush: Lean Analytics The Mom Test Tom Hammond: Thinking Fast and Slow Influence Follow iPhreaks Show on Twitter > @iphreaks

In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Alex talks to Curtis Herbert about challenges building your own indie iOS app. They talk about technical decisions, business priorities, and benefits and disadvantages of sticking with Apple technologies. Sponsors Audible.com CacheFly Panel Alex Bush Guest Curtis Herbert Links https://simgenie.app https://getslopes.com blog.curtisherbert.com/tag/slopes-diaries https://independence.fm https://curtisherbert.com https://simgenie.app Picks Alex Bush: Profit First by Mike Michalowicz Clockwork by Mike Michalowicz Curtis Herbert: LEGO® Pirates of Barracuda Bay Follow Curtis on Twitter > @parrots Follow iPhreaks Show on Twitter > @iphreaks

In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, the panel discusses iOS and other development books that are great resources to help during the course of the iOS developers’ journey. Sponsor CacheFly Panel Alex Bush Charles Wood Links iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide Cocoa Design Patterns Pragmatic Programmer Soft Skills Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide MaxCoder’s Guid to Finding Your Dream Developer Job Refactoring Working Effectively with Legacy Code Clean Code Design Patterns Clean Architecture Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Growing Object Oriented Programming, Guided by Tests Reactive Programming with RxJS Practical Object-Oriented Design Using Ruby Test Driven Development by Example SmallTalk Best Practice Patterns Extreme Programming Explained Picks Alex Bush: Robert Heinlein, Author Charles Wood: Breath of the Wild The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Follow iPhreaks Show on Twitter > @iphreaks

In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Charles talks to Alex Bush about iOS interview questions and how to navigate the challenging job market. They go over an article Alex wrote that systematizes and summarizes commonly asked iOS interview questions. Sponsor CacheFly Panel Alex Bush Charles Max Wood Links iOS Interview Questions for Senior Developers in 2020 https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire Architecting iOS Apps with VIPER By Jeff Gilbert and Conrad Stoll https://github.com/uber/RIBs The Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) Clean Architecture book Picks Alex Bush: Time Enough for Love System Design Interview: Get iOS Jobs At Big Companies Follow iPhreaks Show on Twitter > @iphreaks

Testing your iOS apps can be tricky. It's even trickier when you need to make sure that your non-technical folks to verify that your applications behave as they should. Azam shares his expertise in testing your applications using Behavior Driven Development techniques and how to write specifications in plain English that can be read and understood by non-technical people and can be executed by computers to verify that the behavior matches up. Panelists Alex Bush Guest Mohammad Azam Sponsors CacheFly Picks Alex Bush: WWDC for macOS Mohammad Azam: Mark of the Beast Follow iPhreaks on Twitter: @iphreaks

iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Donny Wals works for Disney on the systems that run Disney+ and other systems. He jumps on the podcast to talk about Combine. Combine is a functional reactive programming library provided by Apple. It's similar to RxSwift. It's functionality focused instead of UI focused. He can be used to handle API responses and things like that to push changes through the system. Panelists Charles Max Wood Soojin Ro Guest Donny Wals Sponsors CacheFly Picks Soojin Ro: objc Functional Swift Donny Wals: Understanding Swift Follow iPhreaks on Twitter: @iphreaks

iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Steve Young is an ASO and App Promotion expert. He walks Chuck and Soojin through the process of finding applications that will make you millions of dollars by competing in spaces where others are making millions of dollars. He also shows the panelists how to make your apps appear higher in the app store. Panelists Charles Max Wood Soojin Ro Guest Steve Young Sponsors With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io CacheFly Links App Annie SensorTower Picks Charles Max Wood: Get Outside! Upper Deck Legendary Soojin Ro: Slow Burpee Steve Young: Intermittent Fasting Follow iPhreaks on Twitter: @iphreaks

iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Guest, Alex Lundquist joins this episode of the iPhreaks Show to walk us through his experience with iOS bootcamp. He went into how he was laid off from his job and the rigorous pursuit of landing another job in his field of IT. This episode is truly inspirational especially in a time when so many developers, IT techs etc are at a crossroads in their career. Panelists Charles Max Wood Guest Alex Lundquist Sponsors With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io CacheFly Links DevMountain bluehost Bottega Lambda LinkedIn Alex Lundquist Picks Charles Max Wood: http://www.russellbrunsonclickfunnels.com/ Alex Lundquist: Hacking with Swift Ray Wenderlich How to ace a take home test - Sean Allen on Swiftly Speaking Follow iPhreaks on Twitter: @iphreaks

iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Soojin and Alex are joined by Luis Ascorbe who talks about his experience splitting a large monolith codebase into modules. They talk about general approach and specific tactics. Panelists Soojin Ro Alex Bush Guest Luis Ascorbe Sponsors With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io CacheFly Links cocoaconferences.com Picks Soojin Ro: Billions Alex Bush: Soft Skills Luis Ascorbe: ZeroZeroZero Objectified How to Win Friends & Influence People Follow iPhreaks on Twitter: @iphreaks

iOS Dev Remote Conf 2020 Douglas Hill and Charles Max Wood discuss keyboard control with UIKit apps. Mac Catalyst came out and made keyboard relevant on Mac where UIKit was mostly focused on iOS before. The discussion goes into the ins and outs of Mac Catalyst, the new iPad with its keyboard, and then how to think about keyboard inputs if you're used to working on touch screen devices. Panelists Charles Max Wood Guest Douglas Hill Sponsors With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io CacheFly Links GitHub douglashill/KeyboardKit Twitter Douglas Hill: @qdoug Picks Charles Max Wood: Prodigal Son Devchat Meetups Devchat Conferences Douglas Hill: Standard Ebooks Follow iPhreaks on Twitter: @iphreaks