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[Book Update] Async Chapter is Done! Looking for Feedback.
The Async Chapter is one of the new additions to the 2nd edition of The iOS Interview Guide. It covers all things async: GCD, Swift Concurrency…
 • Alex Bush
Mobile Engineers - You’re All Full Stack Now
Specialization used to be the thing—mobile, frontend, backend, etc. Now with AI we all can (and should) work on a higher full-stack level, which I…
 • Alex Bush
Swift deinit with Strict Concurrency
Deinit in strict Swift concurrency behaves differently from prior Swift versions and might cause unexpected compile or runtime issues. I’m getting…
 • Alex Bush
Pragmatic Backend APIs For Mobile Apps
The best mobile apps are optimized, from the client to the backend API. There are different approaches for the API: REST, RPC, GraphQL, etc. None are…
 • Alex Bush
Enum Switch/Case vs. Protocol with Multiple Method Calls
There is so much dogma in the iOS community. Enum based protocols with lots of switch/casing considered to be good where, most of the time a more…
 • Alex Bush
Commentary on Jacob’s Swift for Android vs. KMP Article
Swift for Android is here. It is going to be a tough choice in a few years to decide which language to pick for multi-platform development but as of…
 • Alex Bush
[RIBs] Modernizing RIBs: Swift Concurrency Support and Strict Isolation (POC)
I’m continuing to work on modernizing the RIBs framework for iOS. Last weekend, I opened a PR with a proof of concept (POC) showing how Swift…
 • Alex Bush
The Mobile Engineer
The Mobile Engineer
Mobile engineering from the inside. Real world software development best practices, techniques, architecture, software development lifecycle, process, and more. Useful for mobile engineers junior to senior, tech leads, engineering managers.
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