Swift Academy Podcast
The Swift Academy podcast explores iOS development, Swift engineering, and the Apple platform ecosystem in deep-dive conversations with expert engineers, open source contributors, and Apple alumni.
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E12 · S2Listen: 55 min
Modern iOS Security: Attacks, Defenses & AI with Dave Poirier and Deya Elkhawaldeh
with Dave Poirier & Deya Elkhawaldeh
Dave Poirier and Deya Elkhawaldeh on why 'Apple handles security for us' is the most expensive assumption in iOS development, how attackers actually pick …
E11 · S2Listen: 57 min
MLX Swift & On-Device AI with Adrien Grondin
with Adrien Grondin
Adrien Grondin on MLX Swift, running Mistral, Qwen and Gemma locally on Apple Silicon, how MLX differs from Core ML and Foundation Models, and the real limits …
E10 · S2Listen: 44 min
Beyond the Prompt: Foundation Models as an Architectural Layer in iOS with Mohammad Azam
with Mohammad Azam
Mohammad Azam on Apple's Foundation Models framework as an on-device architectural primitive, @Generable, @Guide, instructions, tools, adapter fine-tuning, and …
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Season 2 · current
Concurrency, on-device AI and the Swift ecosystem
Matt Massicotte on Swift Concurrency, Mohammad Azam on Foundation Models, Mihaela Mihaljević on MCP tooling, Natalia Panferova on accessibility.
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Season 1 · archive
Mobile security, refactoring and architecture
Jon Reid on TDD, Chris Eidhof and Florian Kugler on SwiftUI animations, Tjeerd In ’t Veen on modularisation, Dave Poirier across the security thread.
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