The 2 days came and gone, so fast you couldn’t believe, it all had ended so fast!
As last year, the organisation was excellent and everything went really well…

I enjoyed all the talks that I attended and had some difficult decisions to make, the two tracks made choices impossible sometimes.
So here are my considerations:

First day

Please don’t lose the master class from Dan Cutting, The Grand Tour of iOS Architectures. A really good explanation of all the MVC, MVP, VIPER, CLEAN and FLUX or REACTIVE architectures/patterns.

Another talk not to lose is TDD in Xcode Playgrounds by Paul Ardeleanu: The power of TDD in a playground showing you how to quickly get feedback from your tests, and how can you then move the tests to your project.

Swift on the server was well represented by this workshop: Workshop: Building a server-side Swift app with the Kitura web framework by Chris Bailey and Ian Partridge.

If you are looking for a new job, please don’t skip Ace The Technical Interview by Abizer Nasir. Very good advises there.

Second day

You get to venue with mixed fillings: you are super excited for the new talks ahead, but you are also exhausted from day before…you are starting to think that your brain can’t take much more, and you sit down to listening to the keynote by Daniel Steinberg, and you definitely start to rethink your life. Why? How? What?

Another great talk was Going Universal: Building an app for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV (and staying sane) by Adrian Thomas where he explains the process of building and app not just for the iPhone, focus on how to organize your code (essentially your shared code) but not forgetting the UI and how you should maintain some core elements between the different versions of your app.

Unfortunately, there is no video for this excellent workshop by Phil Nash: Test Driving Swift To The Max – with or without the tests!. Very enlightening and using AppCode instead of Xcode.
Building better iOS apps with GraphQL, doesn’t have a video too, but was a really nice talk about how to talk to the server without a REST API. Will it be the next hype on iOS?

And that’s it, folks! Next year there will be more.
It was really nice to reencounter friends and make some new ones and learn new things.
Never stop learning!