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iOS developers community in Tokyo

iOS developers community in Tokyo

iOS developers community in Tokyo
STRV iOS Lightning Talks, 10.10.2019

I presented this topic to developers in Prague.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ios-lightning-talks-tickets-73084448553

Yoshikuni Kato

October 10, 2019
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  1. iOS developers community
    in Tokyo
    By Yoshikuni Kato, iOS developer
    At STRV iOS Lightning Talks, 10.10.2019

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  2. Who am I?
    ● Yoshikuni Kato
    ● iOS app developer (4.5 years)
    ● STRV (since 03.2019)
    multiple companies in Tokyo (2013-2019)
    ● Twitter: @yoshikuni_kato
    ● GitHub: @yoching
    ● Interests: Software Design, Functional
    Programming, UI Implementation.
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  3. My experience with the iOS developer community in Tokyo
    ● Have been in the community for the last 4-5 years
    ● Attended lots of meetups & conferences, sometimes as a presenter
    ● I’m going to highlight some of the ways the community operates
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  4. Photos
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  7. What’s it like?
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    Active & Diverse

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  9. Active & Diverse
    ● Numerous & diverse meetups
    ● 2 big annual conferences
    ● Lots of technical discussions online
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  10. iOS meetup groups in Tokyo (part)
    ● potatotips: presenters only
    ● Swift Lovers (cf. Kotlin lovers)
    ● Tokyo iOS meetup (in English)
    ● Waiwai-swiftc
    ● roppongi.swift
    ● Test Night, CI/CD Night (by DeNA)
    ● Cocoa study group, Bukuro.swift
    ● Company organized meetups
    Hatena, FiNC, CA.swift (by CyberAgent),
    MobileAct (by Fenrir), Cookpad, Timers,
    Bonfire (by Yahoo! Japan)
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    ● macOS native study group
    ● Swift Tweets
    ● shibuya.swift
    ● Otemachi.swift
    ● AKIBA.swift
    ● Muscle.swift
    ● Realm meetup
    ● Firebase Japan User Group
    ● Combine catch-up meetup
    ● Vapor meetups
    ● fastlane meetup
    ● ...

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  11. iOS meetups in Tokyo
    ● So many meetups
    ● Each meetup has about 30-100+ attendees
    ● Meetups are organized by person / community / company
    ● Fluid because some start and some become inactive
    ● Search “iOS” or “swift” at connpass.com
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  12. Diverse meetup examples
    swiftc meetup
    ● About Swift Compiler
    ● Has met 14 times since 2018
    ● About 30 attendees per meetup
    ● Discord channel
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    iOS Test Night (by DeNA)
    ● About Testing on iOS
    ● Has met 11 times since 2016
    ● About 100 attendees per meetup
    ● “CI/CD Test Night” started from this

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  13. Big annual conferences
    try! swift
    ● 900 attendees
    ● 30 talks, single track
    ● in English & Japanese
    (simultaneous translation)
    (Numbers are from 2019)
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    iOSDC
    ● 800 attendees
    ● 133 talks *, multiple tracks
    ● in Japanese
    ● 540 proposals
    * including 40 LT
    (Numbers are from iOSDC 2018)

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  14. Technical discussions online
    ● Japanese engineers ❤ twitter in general
    ● Qiita (Japanese Medium)
    ● Slack, Discord, ...
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  15. Weak point: Language barrier
    ● Most meetups & discussions are in Japanese (except Tokyo iOS meetup)
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  16. Wrap up
    ● iOS developer community in Tokyo is very active & diverse
    ● Please feel free to contact me @yoshikuni_kato
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  17. THAT'S IT
    Yoshikuni Kato
    [email protected]

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