Swift Academy Podcast, Season 2
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 …
E9 · S2Listen: 43 min
Cupertino MCP: Local AI Tooling for Swift and iOS Development with Mihaela Mihaljević
with Mihaela Mihaljević
How the Cupertino MCP server gives AI agents offline access to 302,000+ Apple docs across 307 frameworks, a technical deep-dive into Model Context Protocol for …
E8 · S2Listen: 62 min
Swift Concurrency Explained with Matt Massicotte
with Matt Massicotte
A deep-dive into Swift Concurrency with Matt Massicotte, isolation, actors, Sendable types, static vs dynamic isolation, and what Swift 6 really asks of you. …
E7 · S2Listen: 68 min
Staff Engineering in Mobile Teams: Myth vs Reality
with Firas Safa
What does a Staff iOS Engineer actually do, and how is it different from a Tech Lead? In this episode of Swift Academy, Firas Safa brings hard-earned clarity to …
E6 · S2Listen: 50 min
Meet the New Swift Android SDK with Joannis Orlandos
with Joannis Orlandos
Swift is coming to Android, officially. In this episode of Swift Academy, we sit down with Joannis Orlandos, CTO and member of the Swift.org Android Work Group, …
E5 · S2Listen: 43 min
iOS 26, SwiftUI and Accessibility with Natalia Panferova
with Natalia Panferova
A deep dive into iOS 26, Liquid Glass design, and accessibility with Natalia Panferova, former Apple SwiftUI engineer, author, and co-founder of Nil Coalescing.
E4 · S2Listen: 80 min
Open Source & Spring: How a Side Project Became a VMware Career
with Mahmoud Ben Hassine
In this episode of Swift Academy, we step beyond the Apple ecosystem to explore how open source can transform a software engineering career, with Mahmoud Ben …
E3 · S2Listen: 90 min
Scale Your Swift App Development with Tuist
with Pedro Piñera & Marek Fořt
Pedro Piñera and Marek Fořt, creators of Tuist, join Swift Academy to discuss scalable Xcode project generation, smart caching, CI/CD integration, and modular …
E2 · S2Listen: 90 min
Dependency Injection in Swift with Michael Long
with Michael Long
Michael Long, author of Resolver and Factory, joins Swift Academy to discuss dependency injection patterns in Swift, compile-time DI, and the evolution of iOS …
E1 · S2Listen: 51 min
Vapor & Backend for Frontend: The Future of Server-Side Swift – with Tim Condon
with Tim Condon
Tim Condon of the Vapor core team joins Swift Academy to discuss Backend for Frontend architecture, async/await in Vapor, Swift Macros, and the future of …