Under the Radar
From development and design to marketing and support, Under the Radar is all about independent app development. It's rarely longer than 30 minutes. Hosted by Marco Arment and David Smith.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 326
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
206: Pivoting Your App
The tricky balance of making big changes to your app to better serve your current market without upsetting your initial customers.
00:29:44 |
Wed 09 Dec 2020
205: We Got a Raise
How the M1 Macs are game-changers for developers, and our thoughts on the lower fees from the App Store Small Business Program.
00:29:41 |
Wed 25 Nov 2020
204: Adopting SwiftUI
The continued challenges of modernizing Overcast with Swift and SwiftUI, and deciding whether to rewrite Objective-C components in Swift.
00:29:45 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
203: Modernizing Overcast
Refactoring and rewriting the foundations of a 6-year-old Objective-C codebase using Swift and modern APIs.
00:29:32 |
Wed 28 Oct 2020
202: The Calm After The Storm
Settling into a baseline, leaving no room to be undercut, and where Widgetsmith goes from here.
00:29:40 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
201: Widgetsmith
Dave's app is number one in the App Store! We explore the mind-bending scale and perspective of such a defining moment in an indie developer's career.
00:29:48 |
Tue 29 Sep 2020
199: Spending Dan Riccio’s 2020 Battery Surplus
Our second-annual wishlist for how we hope this fall's Apple hardware spends the efficiency gains from another year of technological progress.
00:29:52 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
197: iOS 14 Privacy Disclosures
The new App Store privacy disclosures and tracking-permission prompt in iOS 14.
00:29:50 |
Thu 06 Aug 2020
196: Not-So-Secret Plans
What we're working on so far this summer, and why we're not keeping it secret.
00:29:50 |
Tue 21 Jul 2020
195: Apple's Grand Vision of the Future
Adapting to the continued consolidation of Apple's platforms and frameworks.
00:29:43 |
Wed 08 Jul 2020
194: WWDC 2020
How the online-only format of WWDC 2020 is working out in practice, and how quickly we plan to adopt the new APIs.
00:29:46 |
Wed 24 Jun 2020
193: Unproductivity
Putting mental health above productivity during challenging times.
00:29:48 |
Wed 10 Jun 2020
192: Backporting
Using compatibility shims and abstractions to gain some of the newest APIs' benefits on previous OS versions.
00:29:43 |
Wed 27 May 2020
191: Self-Imposed Constraints
Imposing arbitrary limits on yourself to produce better projects.
00:29:37 |
Wed 13 May 2020
190: Custom Fonts
The risks and rewards of using custom fonts, and how to implement them in a modern app.
00:29:16 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
189: Watchsmith
The launch of David's new app that pushes the boundaries of watchOS and finally makes our smartwatch faces actually smart.
00:29:49 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
188: watchOS Business Prospects
The business side of Apple Watch app development in 2020.
00:29:39 |
Thu 02 Apr 2020
187: Uncertain Times
Business decisions for app developers during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
00:29:48 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
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