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John and Rambo share their initial impressions of developing apps for iPhone Duo.
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206: “Let’s deprecate Xcode projects”
Released Wednesday, April 8th 2026 53 min
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Using Android as an iOS user, and the state of Swift Package Manager, including how it could become a more full-featured orchestration tool for Xcode projects.
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