Alex Bush

Guest Alex Bush - Twitter @alex_v_bush LinkedIn iOS Interview Guide Inside iOS Dev Podcast Related Episodes Episode 12 - iOS Developer Interviews with Alex Bush Episode 23 - Modularizing in Xcode with Abbey Jackson Inside iOS Dev - First Thoughts on SwiftUI Inside iOS Dev - WWDC 2019 Inside iOS Dev - Protocol Extensions Sponsors BrightDigit Specialize in helping businesses build apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch 10 years of experience developing for a variety of Apple platform Helping dev shops which lack experience with Apple platforms and Swift Contact me if you need help today. We have an opening for sponsors Do you have a product or service which can target our ever growing community of developers as well as technology and business leaders? Contact me today if you are interested in sponsoring or go to our Patreon page. Podcast Update in 2020 EmpowerApps is Moving to 3 episodes per month About the Inside iOS Dev Podcast Xcode Wish List Leo Improvements to Auto Completion and SourceKit Improvements to Playgrounds Brand New IDE (similar to Objective-C, iTunes, UIKit, etc...) XcodeGen - Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project Better Support for Modularization and Swift Packages Fastlane - App Automation swift-sh - Swift Scripting Speculid - Asset Management and Using SVGs Alex Fix

Alex's Links On Twitter @alex_v_bush iOS Interview Guide Inside iOS Dev Podcast Previous Episodes Episode 8 - Cloud and Backend Services For Apps What makes interviewing iOS Developers special? Apple Design Patterns Model-View-Controller Delegation Pattern Protocol Oriented Programming Special Background and Knowledge in Frameworks: UIKit, HealthKit, AVFoundation, WatchKit, etc... Common mistakes employers make interviewing iOS candidates Not understanding their own app Hiring a consultant to help estimate and understand what iOS knowledge is nessecary Not understanding the phase their app and whether general iOS developers are needed as opposed to iOS developers with specialties Algorithms and Optimization Interview Questions Interview Questions about building a UI in iOS Finding out whether the applicant understands the pros and cons of various methods: Storyboards, Coding, etc... Make sure they are willing to work with the team Common mistakes iOS developer applicants and candidates make Not having broad knowledge of various solutions an app may need: Data Storage, Networking, UI... Some Backend Knowledge Full Transcription Leo Dion (Host): Hey Alex [00:00:01] Alex Bush (Guest): Hey Leo [00:00:01] Leo Dion (Host): how are you doing, sir? [00:00:02] Alex Bush (Guest): Great. How are you doing? [00:00:04] Leo Dion (Host): Fantastic glad to have Alex Bush on from IOS interview guide and inside iOS Dev podcast. If you are interested in iOS development, you should definitely check his podcast out. Alex, what are you up to right now? [00:00:21] Alex Bush (Guest): I am sort of getting up to speed after Microconf and vacation. [00:00:27] Leo Dion (Host): I hear you. I'm in the same boat microconf and peers and vacation and starting a new contract. So I know where you're coming from. [00:00:35] Alex Bush (Guest): Right and yeah, and I'm Contracting as well