Keynote: Decisions

Featuring John Sundell

You all have to make decisions every day — both in your personal life, and in your lives as developers. But making good, solid, decisions that stand the test of time can be incredibly difficult. What framework to choose for networking? Should you adopt new Swift language features right away?...

Beyond TDD

Featuring Graham Lee

When Graham adopted Test-Driven Development, he turned his back on testing. People think that if they write a couple of tests that show the happy path and the error path, then they have "100% coverage" and are done. If they add those tests to their continuous delivery pipeline, running...

Best Practices for Notifications Features

Featuring Kaya Thomas

Notifications can be a double-edged sword: they can bring users back into your app, or if too frequent, cause them to delete your app forever. Notifications are often used to send your users important or time-sensitive information -- but how do you implement these features while respecting the...

Keynote: Burnout

Featuring Jessica Rose

Occupational burnout leaves sufferers unproductive and miserable, with symptoms that closely mirror depression and other serious ailments.

In this talk Jessica will explain occupational burnout, how to detect it and then look at possible routes back to a level of health and wellness that allows...

Enhancing Real-Time Video with ARKit

Featuring Manik Sachdeva

Realtime Video has been the online king of the past few of years, while Augmented Reality (AR) has been steadily getting closer to enhance your day-to-day 'real' world experiences with useful on-demand virtual elements. In this talk, Manik will share with you how AR and real-time video...

Better Together

Featuring Niamh Power

Across the mobile industry, there is often this great divide between the two platforms, iOS, and Android. The consumer arguments of which side is better, and what phones are better regularly leak into our work and quite frankly taint our ability to make great applications for our users. As...

Swift as a Coursing River: Generate a Song with Hidden Markov Models in Swift

Featuring Lizzie Siegle

Hidden Markov Models are commonly-used statistic models for sequential data often used in topics like speech recognition. Music has been composed through algorithms for a long time and recently with the improvement of deep learning methods, algorithms and models are now being used more and more...

Cellular View Controllers

Featuring Robin Malhotra

In this talk, Robin will share why you might want to embed UIViewControllers inside your UITableViewCells. Together with Robin, you'll explore a sample implementation (without doing any embedding/containment) and slowly refactor/reason about it to arrive at a subclass that lets you enjoy the...

The Evolution of Swift: Are we there yet?

Featuring Paul Hudson

Swift has been evolving at a lightning pace ever since it was released, but even though ABI stability is finally on the horizon the rest of the language shows no plan of slowing down.

During this talk, Paul will explore whether the Swift Evolution process is working as you all hoped, what's...

30 Xcode Tips in 45 Minutes

Featuring Sean Allen

Think you know Xcode? Think again. In this talk, Sean will run through 30 hands-on tips ranging from intermediate to advanced, so that each and every attendee will walk away with something new they can take back and implement in their daily workflow.

Lightning Talk: Dear Interviewee: What Your Interviewer Would Like You to Know, But Can’t Tell You

Featuring Alex Karp

iOS interviews are stressful. The questions are tricky. You don't immediately know the answers, so you nervously rush to figure them out. It's almost like the interviewer is rooting for you to fail… or are they?

As someone who has a ton of interviewing experience on both sides of the...

The evolution of MobileCI at the BBC

Featuring Tim Condon

Learn how the use of continuous integration services that the BBC has evolved over the last few years. Tim will take you through a journey of the trials and lessons they have learned building their own CI infrastructure. Learn where he and his company started with boxes under desks and phones...

Lightning Talk: ABI Stability & the LLVM

Featuring Julietta Yaunches

ABI stability can be quickly understood from a high level when explained as ‘You’ll be able to run code written for older versions of Swift on new versions of it’s compiler.’ Developers get this benefit as they’ve experienced the pain of not being able to do this for several years.

This talk will...

Option(al) Is Not A Failure

Featuring Phil Nash

Should you use Optionals for errors in Swift, or do-catch? Or perhaps something else? Or not bother at all and rely on Bad Things never happening? For some, it might seem that Swift's error handling strategy is fragmented and different for the sake of it. Phil will try to convince you that...

Mr. Wolf's Horror Stories

Featuring Jorge Ortiz‑Fuentes

Consulting about architecture and best practices for big companies and startups is the closest you can get to being The Wolf (Pulp Fiction). Although there are excellent teams that do a great and professional work with the development of their apps, horror stories happen. The consultant gets a...

From input to information – ML to the rescue!

Featuring Mukesh Thawani

Inputting information can be a tedious process, so how can you use machine learning to solve this problem? One smart approach is to input in a natural language and using machine learning to parse it into classified information. If you've ever used features like Quick Add in Todoist you'll...

Legacy iOS apps: Refactor vs. Rewrite

Featuring Julietta Yaunches

Apple’s iOS development platform was released over 10 years ago. Since then, significant changes have been made to the toolset and languages surrounding iOS app development. When a development platform reaches this age it is increasingly frequent that:

Keynote: The Business Case For Your Code

Featuring Gwendolyn Weston

If asked, could you explain how the code you write contributes to the business’ bottom line and adds value to the customer? When you get used to working by sprints and moving tasks along, you can miss the bigger picture of why you are building the things you do. This tension becomes especially...

Lightning Talk: Your iPhone Is Also A Phone! 🤯

Featuring Paul Ardeleanu

The importance of Privacy on Apple Platforms

Featuring Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina

A lot of the time privacy of your data as a user is not a priority for developers. Whether it’s your calendar, your contacts, or your location, as a user you want to be able to use an app without all of those attacks in your privacy. In this talk, Manuel will explore some things an iOS and macOS...

Keynote: Tool Builders for Life

Featuring Jaimee Newberry

After working in the Web Interaction Design & Development industry from 1998-2013 with emphasis on empathetic and behavioral psychology-applied interface design for web, mobile web, and iOS applications Jaimee realized she had accumulated a lot of tools for building great "stuff"...

Lightning Talk: Meeting Business Users Expectations

Featuring Kevin Muessig

Business apps are mostly written with the thought “Written once, run everywhere” which is not the full truth.

In this lightning talk Kevin will share with you why business apps should be treated like an end consumer app and why user experience is important in the business realm.

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Live Podcast: Swift over Coffee

Featuring Sean Allen and Paul Hudson

Keynote: The Monad Lurking Under Your Bed At Night

Featuring Daniel Steinberg

When you encounter Functors and Monads you ask yourself, “When am I ever going to use this.” The answer is, “you already do.” In this talk Daniel will explore Functors and Monads in everyday life and share with you some accessible examples.

Parsing Formal Languages with Swift

Featuring Nick Lockwood

During this talk, Nick will share with you an introduction on how to write parsers using Swift, including code samples. He will explore the theory behind parsing, why you would do it and why Swift is a good language to do it with.

Lightning Talk: Use Sourcery to Make Your iOS Code Write Itself

Featuring Gabrielle Earnshaw

In this session, you will learn about Sourcery, the metaprogramming tool for Swift. Gabrielle will explain what Sourcery is and the benefits of automated code generation. She will explore how to use Sourcery by working through real examples, showing how to auto-generate boilerplate code. She will...

Two days in London

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iOSCon 2017 - The conference for iOS and Swift Developers

Two days in London

iOSCon celebrates the latest developments and the sharpest minds in iOS. Do you want to find out about all the latest & most topical iOS & Swift technologies and applications and discover the best practices and ideas? Then come and join us at iOSCon in London!

iOSCon 2016 - The conference for iOS and Swift Developers

Two days in London

iOSCon celebrates the latest developments and the sharpest minds in iOS. This year, we'll showcase various takes on the Apple Watch and Apple TV as well as open source and reactive innovations such as ResearchKit over 2 days of talks.

Two days in London

Join us for the free iOScon hackathon weekend, tying in with our first iOS developer conference!

iOScon 2014 - The iOS Developer Conference

Two days in London

Are you an iOS developer or designer who wants to keep ahead of the curve and hear from some of the best minds in the field? Interested in meeting other developers and exploring new techniques and technologies? Keen to collaborate and create something new from scratch at a one-off iOS hacking...