Thursday Jan 21, 2016
This past Tuesday Manjula Jonnalagadda gave a thorough overview of Auto Layout and Size Classes. Her suggestions were to ensure you consider each devices strengths and weaknesses. Ensure you are utilizing layout guides, and do perform your layout from the middle out. Using the Any x Any size class can get you pretty far. (slides should be posted at the link above shortly)
A couple weeks back I gave a talk on iOS testing, the trunout was great and we all learned a lot. If you are interested in testing I would love to help you get started at one of our regular meetups. If you are not the leaving the house type there are some links below too.
Since we are all mobile (or aspiring) developers, a great mind in the mobile space Ben Evans wrote about 16 mobile theses.
Phil Schiller is now the head of the App Store for Apple. We'll keep on eye on how this changes things.
Francisco is looking for feedback on his autolayout helper library
One member wanted feedback on an app that has an algorithm that reads your face and tells you your personality.
One SJSU student built a location-based events app and another one that helps you find roommates on campus.
We helped one new face build a weather app by connecting to the Dark Skys API.
One gentleman was working on building a hangman app using drawRect.
We also had members looking for inspiration on learning iOS (hopefully we helped!) and advice with NSNotificationCenter.
In case you missed it, SpaceX is doing amazing things. They landed their rocket after sending 11 satellites into space. Check out the incredible feat here. It looks like the "At Sea" landing just needs a few more tweaks:w
There was a great podcast a couple weeks back on the Talk Show with John Gruber where Craig Federighi gave his thoughts on open sourcing Swift and the future of Swift. You can hear it right here.
Code Path has been kind enough to share the curriculum for their Swift Basics
Members are gathering an interest in More advanced Swift Topics
Some great videos from the Functional Swift conference can be found here.
Hands-On iOS Project Group Come with questions, or answer someone else's. Get some help on your open source library, or start a new one.
Weekly iOS Developer Connect Meet other local developers, enjoy a coffee and conversation about the latest in iOS development. Questions are welcome here too.
####Sunday Jan 31 A Guided Interactive Adventure in iOS An all day iOS Masterclass. Come for the whole thing if you are looking to get started in iOS, or just come for the parts that are relevant to your skill level. We'd love to help you get started with iOS or reach the next level of mastery.
Getting yourself Hired (Part 1) Join us with Guild Education for a mini-boot camp focusing on job search for developers. This fast-paced session will cover everything from getting your resume noticed to setting up informational chats to prepping for the ever-ambiguous “non-technical” parts of the interview process. Walk away with tangible steps you can use immediately to improve your job search.
An in-depth look at refactoring from Sandy Metz. The code is ruby but the lessons are applicable to all of us.