Real World Swift

Built2Last

Conversations about modern Swift and Apple platform development for apps that are built to last

Episodes

  1. Jul 31

    Apple’s Future of Mobile Design, Part 2: Beyond the App

    In Part 2, we look beyond Apple’s new visual language to the deeper philosophy guiding its future interfaces. We unpack Apple’s principles of purpose, agency, familiarity, flexibility, simplicity, responsibility, craft, and delight, then connect them to accessibility, brand identity, search, widgets, Live Activities, Siri, Spotlight, and AI-assisted prototyping in Xcode. The episode explores Apple’s shift from apps as isolated destinations to adaptable collections of content and capabilities that can appear throughout the system—while asking where human judgment, product identity, and thoughtful design fit into an increasingly intelligent platform.

  2. Jul 31

    Apple’s Future of Mobile Design, Part 1: Liquid Glass and Adaptive Interfaces

    Apple’s latest design evolution is about more than translucent controls and visual polish. In Part 1, we explore how Liquid Glass, edge-to-edge content, adaptive navigation, dynamic icons, and system-driven components are reshaping experiences across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. We examine how Apple is creating a shared design language that remains flexible across different screen sizes, input methods, window configurations, and accessibility settings—and what that direction means for developers and designers building the next generation of Apple-platform apps.

  3. 12/04/2025

    Feature Oriented Architecture

    In this episode, we break down Feature-Oriented Architecture on iOS and how it scales real-world apps by slicing them into modular, independent features. We’ll talk about how FOA complements patterns like MVVM, TCA, and Clean Architecture, so you get both vertical feature modules and clean horizontal layers for testability and maintainability, and we'll demonstrate the concept using an example To-Do app that manages to-do "task" objects. By the end, you’ll have a mental model you can apply directly to your own production codebases.

  4. 12/02/2025

    SwiftData in the Wild

    On stage, SwiftData looks magical; in the wild, it has opinions. In this episode of Real-World Swift, we talk about wiring SwiftData into real world system designs, using patterns like MVVM, Repositories, and layered data stacks that need to be testable and scalable. If you’re tired of sample projects that never mention DI, test doubles, concurrency, or performance, this conversation will help you design a SwiftData setup that can actually survive in the wild.

  5. 12/01/2025

    Swift Concurrency Part 2: Real-World Use Cases

    This episode dives into the practical applications of the Swift Concurrency concepts we covered in Part 1 of this series.

  6. 12/01/2025

    Swift Concurrency Part 1: What It Is and Why It Matters

    In our pilot episode, we have a conversation exploring Swift's modern concurrency model, built on async/await and Structured Concurrency, which fundamentally re-architected asynchronous programming for cleaner, safer code. We detail how this system eliminates hard-to-debug data races using Actors for serialized state access, leveraging Swift 6's strict concurrency checking to enforce data safety at compile time.

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Conversations about modern Swift and Apple platform development for apps that are built to last

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  • Creator
    Built2Last
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Built2Last
  • Show Website
    Real World Swift