Waiting For Review
A fortnightly show between two iOS indie developers, David Gary Wood and Daniel Jilg
About the show
The show is a fortnightly catch up between David Gary Wood, and Daniel Jilg!
David is the longtime host of the show, an iOS development coach based in Wellington, New Zealand. His side project applications include GoVJ, and he is currently working on several small projects.
Daniel is an establish independent developer based in the south of Germany. He is the founder of: Telemetry Deck, "Lightweight Analytics That's Not Evil", an analytics service for apps that provides speedy and accurate analytics whilst keeping user's data private and anonymised.
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Episodes
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156: An Untapped Seam
February 21st, 2020 | 32 mins 16 secs
Dave Wood gets an unexpected upgrade to a Series 5 Apples Watch, which sparks a new Apple Watch app idea. Dave Nott wins a battle with SwiftUI, but was it the right battle to have picked?
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155: Go Back to UIKit?
February 14th, 2020 | 42 mins 11 secs
After another week of frustration, Dave Nott begins to doubt the merits of continuing development with SwiftUI. Would it be easier to down tools and move back to the safety of UIKit to get the job finished?
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154: Is it broken?
February 7th, 2020 | 26 mins 15 secs
Dave Wood is in week 3 of moving his app from paid to freemium, and is beginning to have some regret. He's discovered some confounding factors, and maybe the opportunity is not what he thought it was.
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153: SwiftUI - I Have Feelings...
January 31st, 2020 | 32 mins 12 secs
Both Daves have spent the last week working with SwiftUI. Is it the right technology to choose when starting a new app? Or will we regret jumping in on the new shiny?
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152: Hitting a legal wall, and going Freemium
January 24th, 2020 | 36 mins 56 secs
Dave Nott discovers some upcoming legislation that could have a big impact on an app he's making. Meanwhile Dave Wood catches up with his app's performance since making it free, and where the app is heading next.
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151: The Going Free Trial
January 17th, 2020 | 26 mins 27 secs
Can an app do better in the App Store by moving to a freemium model? Dave Wood is running an experiment with his video mixing app, GoVJ
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150: Raring To Go
January 10th, 2020 | 37 mins 1 sec
After a contemplative festive period, we check back in (after recounting Dave Nott's latest set of USB-C woes) and discuss our plans and direction for 2020.
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149: 2019 In Review
January 3rd, 2020 | 34 mins 45 secs
As we reach the end of 2019, we take a look back at our favourite Apple releases and products from this year, and cast a thought ahead at what may be coming up in 2020.
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148: Losing Your Mojo
December 27th, 2019 | 38 mins 5 secs
Dave Nott is struggling to find a groove with indie app development.
We discuss ways to get new ideas going, minimum viable products, and splitting projects up into manageable chunks to get user feedback sooner rather than later.
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147: MVVM and SwiftUI
December 20th, 2019 | 31 mins 8 secs
Dave Wood has been on an adventure, working out how to architect a new project in SwiftUI. Dave Nott has many questions ...
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146: The Wait is Over
December 13th, 2019 | 41 mins 22 secs
The great wait is over. Dave Nott has his 16" MacBook, and strangely, has been spending rather a lot of time with it booted into Windows
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145: Going on a Side Quest
December 6th, 2019 | 28 mins 12 secs
Dave Nott has been off on a side quest these last few weeks. We discuss what he's been up to, and how easy it is to fall down a rabbit hole. Shiny things are fun, but what are the effects on your focus and other projects?
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144: Hallowed Be Its Name
November 29th, 2019 | 39 mins 18 secs
After months of waiting, and a further two weeks of agonising over specs, Dave Nott has finally ordered the 16" MacBook Pro. We talk about Dave's build to order choices, and his reasonings, which got us to thinking about where things might be going for the Mac...
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143: The 16" Macbook Pro Episode With Charlie Chapman
November 18th, 2019 | 38 mins 38 secs
This week we're joined by previous guest Charlie Chapman. After he and Dave Nott spent weeks campaigning for the machine, it only seemed right we have Charlie back on the show to discuss this wonderful new machine.
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142: New toys ahead
November 15th, 2019 | 48 mins 36 secs
In anticipation of this week's 16" MBP announcement we fall into a discussion of hardware and some end of year purchases. Meanwhile, Dave Wood is eying up an Apple Watch series 3, with a view of bringing a small app to life.
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141: Automating Screenshots
November 8th, 2019 | 32 mins 31 secs
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Dave Wood explains the new screenshot automation process for his video mixing app, GoVJ.