Archive - The Mobile Engineer

The Builder Age

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately and keep coming to the conclusion that building software products is the best leverage I've got. I'll be…

Aug 17 • Alex Bush

RIBs-iOS 1.1.0 is out

async/await interop with RxSwift. New convenience helpers.

Aug 4 • Alex Bush

July 2026

[The Mobile Report] Issue #3: WWDC 2026 Survival Guide

Every year WWDC has lots of great videos but who has the time to watch all of them!? This is a survival guide that filters and distills what mobile…

Jul 21 • Alex Bush

June 2026

Issue #2: Save All The Tokens You Can!

Everyone's trying to save on tokens, and the iOS community is shipping tools for it. Why AI belongs on your backend, not in your app. Plus Universal…

Jun 5 • Alex Bush

May 2026

Mobile Architecture at UpKeep Part 2: Kotlin Multiplatform (KMM/KMP) Architecture

Part 2 of how we do mobile architecture at UpKeep: the shared Kotlin Multiplatform codebase, its modules and layers, and how iOS and Android consume it.

May 28 • Alex Bush

[The Mobile Report] Issue #1: Two Kinds of Teams. AI Tools. Mobile Fullstack.

New newsletter format in addition to regular articles. Two kinds of teams and AI-augmented development. Push notifications and mobile fullstack…

May 21 • Alex Bush

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

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