Archive - The Mobile Engineer

On-Demand Mobile Releases: How We Got There and Why You Should Too

How we got to continuous deployment on mobile to ship like a web team — on demand, to 100% of users. You don’t really need phased rollout!

May 6 • Alex Bush

April 2026

I’m Back. Here’s What I’ve Been Up To — And What’s Coming

So many things have happened lately! AI Stuff! Continues Deployment! Working Fullstack! RIBs! And a poll! :)

Apr 22 • Alex Bush

February 2026

[Book Update] Async Chapter Revision Based On Feedback + Chapter Conclusion

Thank you everyone for your feedback on the async chapter! It helped me a lot to polish it! Also, wanted to share the conclusion of the chapter here on…

Feb 14 • Alex Bush

[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…

Feb 6 • Alex Bush

January 2026

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…

Jan 6 • Alex Bush

December 2025

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…

Dec 29, 2025 • 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…

Dec 19, 2025 • Alex Bush

November 2025

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…

Nov 17, 2025 • 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…

Nov 11, 2025 • Alex Bush

October 2025

[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…

Oct 20, 2025 • Alex Bush

[RIBs] Update: I’m investigating Swift 6.2 concurrency isolation in RIBs

Prepping a framework for Swift Concurrency is not as trivial as it might seem. It’s hard to strike a balance between the new features and breaking…

Oct 7, 2025 • Alex Bush

September 2025

[Book Update] How does Thread class work in Swift?

Threads are, for the most part, not used directly for app development on iOS anymore. But, sometimes, it comes up as a question on iOS interviews. This…

Sep 8, 2025 • Alex Bush

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