Hosted by Marco Arment and David Smith.
From development and design to marketing and support, Under the Radar is all about independent app development. It's rarely longer than 30 minutes.
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#130: Lightning Round V
May 3rd, 2018 · 28 minutes
Lessons from Android's success, hot new things from past WWDCs that didn't pan out, and trying to improve or avoid social problems with our apps.
#129: Lightning Round IV
April 27th, 2018 · 29 minutes
Planning out our apps before writing any code, deciding which ideas NOT to pursue, a converged "Marzipan" world, and accessibility.
#128: Lightning Round III: Servers
April 19th, 2018 · 29 minutes
In our third Q&A episode, we address the many questions we received about running servers.
#127: Lightning Round II
April 13th, 2018 · 29 minutes
Our second-ever Q&A episode, including questions on React Native, reusable code vs. duplication, learning beyond Hello World, and the art of packing lightly for travel.
#126: Retention
April 5th, 2018 · 29 minutes
The fast drop-off of typical usage over time, and how to improve our customer-retention rates.
#125: Privacy Policies and GDPR
March 29th, 2018 · 29 minutes
Minimizing the collection and storage of your users' personal data, and high-level strategies to think about in the dawn of the EU's new GDPR law.
#124: Sleep++ and Permission Prompts
March 23rd, 2018 · 29 minutes
The development and release of Sleep++ 3.0, and best practices for prompting the user for permission to access iOS-protected data or features.
#123: WWDC 2018 Preview, Watch Stats
March 16th, 2018 · 29 minutes
Whether to sign up for a WWDC 2018 ticket and what to do if you don't get one, and the ramifications of David's latest Apple Watch usage stats.
#122: Ten Years of the iPhone SDK
March 8th, 2018 · 27 minutes
Celebrating the ten-year anniversary of the first iPhone SDK release, imagining alternate timelines that could have been, and remembering what we were doing ten years ago.
#121: Fear and Change
March 1st, 2018 · 27 minutes
Considering the temptation and pitfalls of developing features out of fear of missing an opportunity. Also, how best to communicate changes to customers.