iOSCon 2020 - 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!

The wonders of IBM: Watson, artificial intelligence, Swift coding and databases!

Organised by Linuxing In London

IBM have been at the heart of computing for seven decades. Their list of patents would fill several large books, if not a library or two!

They invented many of the things that we take for granted: hard drives, floppy disks, random access memory and so much more.

IBM revolutionised computer...

and others will be attending

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?...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:

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...

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: 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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...