How this iOS dev got a 2x pay raise + paid relocation to Europe | iOS Lead Essentials Podcast #045

How this iOS dev got a 2x pay raise + paid relocation to Europe | iOS Lead Essentials Podcast #045

Our guest today is Danil Lakhtin, a student of the iOS Lead Essentials program who managed to move to a new job in Portugal with a 2x pay raise + paid relocation! Watch it now to learn how he did it.

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Understand VIPER in iOS for good & stop using template solutions | iOS Dev Live Mentoring

Understand VIPER in iOS for good & stop using template solutions | iOS Dev Live Mentoring

If you want to become a complete Senior iOS Developer, you need to learn how to make solid architectural decisions instead of blindly following templates.

This includes VIPER templates that, when followed blindly, can lead to messy, buggy, and over complicated codebases.

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iOS Architecture & Fast Career Growth: Find people who care | iOS Lead Essentials Podcast #002

iOS Architecture & Fast Career Growth: Find people who care | iOS Lead Essentials Podcast #002

In this podcast, we go deep into the importance of good architecture for your iOS apps and how good software architecture and design are essential skills to achieving an enriching and fulfilling iOS dev career.

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Decomposing Swift code into modules – Intro to modular design

Decomposing Swift code into modules – Intro to modular design

In this episode, we zoom out from the component level view of the system created previously and we showcase how to organize it into modules.

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Composable Code Can Be Simple – Intro to dependency diagrams and composition

Composable Code Can Be Simple – Intro to dependency diagrams and composition

In this episode, we continue exploring the dependency inversion principle and composition, while documenting our system's evolution in diagrams.

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What’s More Essential for Developers to Focus On: Result or Process?

What’s More Essential for Developers to Focus On: Result or Process?

In this video, I'd like to ask you an important question, but before that let me tell you what we believe to be one of the best skills a software developer can master: Long-term vision.

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iOS Interview Experience: Why You Didn't Pass the iOS Technical Test

iOS Interview Experience: Why You Didn't Pass the iOS Technical Test

At Essential Developer, we help many developers go through the iOS Interview Experience. Recently, we got this message from one of the members of our community…

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The Minimum You Should Do To Prevent Memory Leaks in Swift

The Minimum You Should Do To Prevent Memory Leaks in Swift

In this episode, we continue the Clean Swift Tests discussion, and we demonstrate a way for preventing memory leaks through automated testing.

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Clean iOS Architecture pt.7: VIP (Clean Swift) – Design Pattern or Architecture?

Clean iOS Architecture pt.7: VIP (Clean Swift) – Design Pattern or Architecture?

Today we're going to analyze the VIP (Clean Swift) Architecture. And, as we did in previous videos with VIPER, MVC, MVVM, and MVP, we will decide if we can call VIP a Software Architecture or a Design Pattern.

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Clean iOS Architecture pt.6: VIPER – Design Pattern or Architecture?

Clean iOS Architecture pt.6: VIPER – Design Pattern or Architecture?

Today we're going to analyze the VIPER iOS Architecture and decide if we can call it a Software Architecture or a Design Pattern like the MVC, MVVM and MVP design patterns we talked about in the previous video.

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