A typical week to stay up to date with iOS news 📰
As an iOS developer, it is always a challenge to stay up to date with what’s new. Things are moving pretty fast there, and it only takes a couple of weeks for you to miss out on a new cool tech. Whether it is new architectural patterns, Swift going more server side, or new frameworks arising such as Core ML and ARKit, there are tons of different areas to mingle with
There is already a very nice article that mentions a lot of newsletters, blogs and influencers to stay on top of your iOS game, but as we all know, time is of the essence and it’s impossible to get through all of these every week ⏰.
More than that, I always believe that we’re more efficient doing certain things at different times of the week and at different hours of the day. Hence, I’d like to share with you how I spend a typical week keeping up to date with iOS news while keeping my productivity as high as possible.

Podcast: SwiftCoders 👂
Let’s start with mornings during weekdays. I listen to my favourite podcast called SwiftCoders. The guy running the show, Garric, is a great host, and brings onboard all kinds of guests, from the founder of Swift Chris Lattner to Indie Developers developing small libraries. There is always something new I learn in each episode: whether it is an architecture pattern, a tool, a library, a UIKit feature. Anything.
Since I have to take the metro to work every work day in the morning, it is the perfect timing to listen to a podcast, especially if you’ve heard about the metros in France! Podcasts are easily digestible, which makes them great candidates to be consumed during mornings on transit, whether you’re walking, taking the bus/metro, or driving your car.
Repositories: Trending Swift 📈
Let’s continue with afternoon during weekdays. During my breaks I love to scroll through the list of trending Swift repos on Github. That is a great way to see what other iOS devs are working on, what are the new trends and what library I will use for my next pet project. If interested in trying out one of them, I either use TestDrive to quickly get a Playground up and running with the new library, or I create a new project in Xcode, `pod install` and I’m good to go.
Newsletter and Articles: iOS Dev Weekly 🗞
Onto the weekends now. On Friday I usually receive my favourite iOS weekly newsletter from Dave Verwer in his iOS dev weekly. It comes with lots of links to interesting articles, whether on personal blogs or Medium. I keep this email for Saturday mornings when I wake up, as I would have probably slept 9 hours to catch up on the week, so I would feel fully refreshed to get into some serious readings. Out of the 4 channels, I think it’s one where you get the most out of it, since articles and newsletter get straight into the important bits, contrary to other channels where there’s time wasted chatting.
Videos: WWDC 📹
Finally, I use some of my weekend afternoons to catchup with videos material. I like the WWDC ones as the quality of the content is pretty high and there’s a ton of talks to chose from. There’s also a lot of other interesting videos to watch elsewhere such as tutorials from raywenderlech, talks from iOS tech conferences and more. So why weekend afternoons? Simply because at the end of a week, I’m usually lazy, so I would prefer a video format rather than a reading one.
That’s it for my typical week. Let me know how you spend yours to stay up to date with iOS news 😄.
