85: “Cross-Apple platform development”, with special guest James Thomson

James Thomson, creator of PCalc, returns to the show to discuss how developers can bring their apps to multiple Apple platforms using technologies like Catalyst and SwiftUI, and how and when it can be a good idea to share code across platforms.

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• James on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• PCalc
• Dice by PCalc
• Previous episode with James
• James’s blog post about Catalyst
• The new “Optimize Interface for Mac” Catalyst feature
• SwiftUI’s Picker control
• Importing a UIKit view into SwiftUI
• SceneKit
• SpriteKit
• Metal
• Core Animation
• Core Graphics
• Imagine Engine
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk