try! Swift NYC 2018
2018-09-04..2018-09-05
New York City, United States
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as the organisers put it
try! Swift Conference is an international community gathering about the latest advancements in Swift Development. The event is about bringing together talent from all around the world to collaborate and share advanced knowledge and techniques to improve Swift craftsmanship. Coming again to New York City on September 4th & 5th 2018, with workshops happening on September 3rd!
who it's for
iOS developers, Swift server engineers, machine learning engineers, mobile UX engineers, SDK authors, engineering managers, startup founders
topics
ARKit face tracking; TrueDepth face mesh; Siri Shortcuts integration; Create ML model training; Core ML super-resolution; SwiftNIO evented networking; Vapor server concurrency; Swift on Server benchmarking; Generics for reusable APIs; Core Data code generation; Image loading optimization; iOS 12 notification customization
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Circumventing Fear of the Unknown | Ash Furrow | |
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| Taken For Granted | Bas Broek | 32m |
Chronological tour of how Swift actually changes from its secret Apple beginnings to open source showing exact edits not slogans including 327 days before WWDC… | ||
| Understanding the Machine Learning Behind Common iOS Use Cases | Aileen Nielsen | |
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| Memojis under the hood | Berta Devant | 22m |
ARKit 2 face tracking uses the TrueDepth camera to produce a 3D face mesh with about 1,220 vertices and exposes roughly 52 blend‑shape coefficients plus… | ||
| Idea to launch - the start of a startup | Leah Culver | 31m |
A startup story with concrete numbers and tools: the team builds Breaker launched March 2017, runs it as a weekend project until Y Combinator Winter 2017… | ||
| Swift on Server: Are We There Yet? | Gopal Sharma | 25m |
A hands‑on evaluation compares server Swift (using Kitura and Vapor) against Java and Python with real benchmarks: lower request latency, throughput close to… | ||
| SwiftNIO and Network.framework | Johannes Weiss | |
NiO, Vapor's integration, and what it means for future of Swift. Bio - Originally planning on working his way up the ranks of Panera Bread Company, Logan was… | ||
| Making it Generic | Jon-Tait Beason | 15m |
Shows how generics cut a linear explosion of types in a Swift iOS app for a Glowforge 3D laser printer by replacing repeated code with one polymorphic… | ||
| Let Them Say What They Want: Adding Siri Shortcuts | Christina Moulton | 23m |
iOS 12 Siri Shortcuts map a single user phrase to a specific action so users can donate intent and Siri can suggest or run it. two implementation paths matter… | ||
| Getting Started with Apple ML | Audrey Tam | 22m |
Shows how to add real models from Create ML inside Xcode and compares it with Turi Create (Python), training a “healthy snacks” image classifier on 4,800… | ||
| What I learned creating a social media app clone | Jen Person | 26m |
Built an Instagram-style app called Cat Calling that stores cats and users in Cloud Firestore, uses a likes subcollection keyed by user ID with a timestamp for… | ||
| Crafting a delightful tactile user interface | Sebastiaan de With | 33m |
Team builds the camera app Halide (released about a year and a half before the talk) and shows concrete wins: a tactile shutter button that scales and responds… | ||
| Trusting SDKs | Felix Krause | 24m |
Claim: 31% of top SDKs vulnerable to simple network attacks where HTTP downloads allow SSL‑stripping or ARP poisoning and let an attacker inject code that runs… | ||
| Swift NIO, Vapor, and Server Concurrency | Logan Wright | 21m |
Explains why Swift NIO replaces a thread‑per‑connection model in Vapor, moving from POSIX threads and libdispatch blocking to an evented nonblocking I/O core… | ||
| Effective Core Data with Swift | Tom Harrington | 26m |
Core Data and Swift interoperate awkwardly so this shows concrete fixes: turning off Xcode's default generation and using mo generator to produce safe Swift… | ||
| Swift Services are Simple | Chris Bailey, Ian Partridge | 26m |
Claim: Kitura reduces a REST endpoint to three lines of code per API using Codable routing and an ORM. Demonstration shows live OpenAPI output and OpenAPI… | ||
| Compassionate—Yet Candid—Code Reviews | April Wensel | |
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| Hacking Marzipan | Peter Steinberger | 27m |
A full‑blown PDF app (million+ lines, C/C++/Obj‑C/Swift) actually runs on macOS Mojave after hacking Marzipan: using marzipan-platter and marzipan-afire… | ||
| Super Resolution with CoreML | Kentaro Matsumae | 24m |
Implementation shows on‑device super resolution with CoreML and Swift that keeps image clarity while shrinking transfer size. Training uses Python + Keras… | ||
| Customizing Your Notifications for iOS 12 | Kaya Thomas | 23m |
Walkthrough of concrete iOS 12 changes with working code and a demo podcast app: how to request provisional authorization so notifications land quietly in… | ||
| Need for Speed: How XO Group Optimized their Image Loading Time on The Knot Mobile App | Erica Correa | 18m |
Measures this path from 8.6 seconds cold start to 480 milliseconds by removing unused images, moving bitmaps to a media API with resized URLs and SDWebImage… | ||
| Strings Seven Ways | Mattt | 34m |
Covers seven ways to treat Swift strings with concrete techniques: use String views (utf8/utf16/scalars) to inspect bytes, rely on Swift 4.1 synthesized… | ||
| Make our Swift better | Daiki Matsudate | 15m |
Shows a concrete path from idea to merged standard‑library API: Dictionary.compactMapValues as a proposal on the Swift Forums proposal track, a real… | ||
| Using your superpowers for good to change the world! | Alicia V Carr | 35m |
A mobile app called Purple Evolution (PEVO) is built to help victims plan escape routes, find resources, and preserve evidence; it ships after repeated App… | ||
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