Hosted by Marco Arment and David Smith.
From development and design to marketing and support, Under the Radar is all about independent app development. It's rarely longer than 30 minutes.
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#212: A Watchsmith Adventure
March 3rd, 2021 · 29 minutes
A _DavidSmith Story Half-Hour on the surprising journey to build a simple photo complication for Apple Watch. How hard could it be?
#211: Logging
February 18th, 2021 · 28 minutes
Deforestation, timber production, and wood preparation. [taps earpiece] What?… Oh, sorry. Scratch that. Writing lines of text to files for diagnostic purposes.
#210: Thinking Like A Business
February 3rd, 2021 · 29 minutes
Trying to remove emotion and assumptions from indie business decision-making.
#209: Binary Stars
January 20th, 2021 · 29 minutes
Copying someone else's work as a learning exercise, and the tricky balance between copying and inspiration.
#208: The Road Ahead
January 6th, 2021 · 29 minutes
#207: Privacy Labels and Analytics
December 22nd, 2020 · 29 minutes
Apple's new privacy labels in the App Store, and how we've designed our custom analytics frameworks for minimal data collection.
#206: Pivoting Your App
December 9th, 2020 · 29 minutes
The tricky balance of making big changes to your app to better serve your current market without upsetting your initial customers.
#205: We Got a Raise
November 25th, 2020 · 29 minutes
How the M1 Macs are game-changers for developers, and our thoughts on the lower fees from the App Store Small Business Program.
#204: Adopting SwiftUI
November 9th, 2020 · 29 minutes
The continued challenges of modernizing Overcast with Swift and SwiftUI, and deciding whether to rewrite Objective-C components in Swift.
#203: Modernizing Overcast
October 28th, 2020 · 29 minutes
Refactoring and rewriting the foundations of a 6-year-old Objective-C codebase using Swift and modern APIs.