In this episode, Paul talks to James Thomson about how to get featured on the App Store, creating a good work from home environment, and how to market indie apps successfully.

Detailed topics:

• How to get featured on App Store


• The effects of being featured by Apple 


• Promotional artwork request by Apple


• Project management 


• How much should be in a release?


• PCalc evolution and code sharing


• Catalyst and code sharing 


• Spoiler alert! Star Trek the Motion Picture 


• New curser/hover button support for iOS coming


• Functionality and aesthetics 


• PCalc about screen and work philosophy


• How does one start with AR?


• From SceneKit, moving onto AR


• PCalc about screen


• The byproducts of learning: new content and unintended new products


• Dice and mental health, how to stay sane when working from home


• Mental wellbeing: games and recreational coding


• Solidarity with folks finding it difficult to work


• Be kind to yourself


• How to create a good working environment


• Take care of yourselves 


• Is this Apple’s chance to use WWDC 2020 to create a good online conference experience?


• Is SwiftUI going to be the future and is it going to replace UIKit?


• Parallels between UIKit and SwiftUI advancing


• What do you think of Apple’s own calculator apps?


• What will Apple ship for iPadOS first: Xcode or Calculator? 


• What new tech is going to go into Dice/PCalc next?  


• Does advertising on other sites help?


• Thoughts on marketing


• Thoughts on subscriptions and Apple Arcade