mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06A meetup for iOS and Mac based in London. Follow for all meetup updates.
🏃 Our own @aledsamuel@mastodon.social will be doing an Apple logo themed run in London this Saturday, inspired by Apple Fitness+ Trainer Cory Wharton-Malcolm’s run recently!
More details on the Meetup event:
https://www.meetup.com/nslondon/events/313805545/
🍎 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at Apple Battersea for our 2026.1 event last week! Amazing, cutting edge talks by @darryl_bayliss@mastodon.social and @richarddas@mastodon.social 🔥 Special thanks to the team at Apple for making the evening possible! See you all next time! 💜
2026.1 Speaker #2: @richarddas@mastodon.social
“Software on Demand in the Age of AI”
With agentic coding in Xcode 26.3, software is increasingly on demand. This talk explores how to work with AI thoughtfully, focusing on architecture, judgement and quality, and themes from his upcoming book.
Our upcoming 2026.1 meetup at Apple Battersea has been featured on Apple's Community-driven events page! https://developer.apple.com/community/events/
We have since filled the spots for the event but we would still highly recommend getting on the waitlist https://www.meetup.com/nslondon/events/313347937/
RSVPs for our 2026.1 event at Apple Battersea open at 12pm today 🕛
(Meetup does seem to have a time related issue so it may show anything from 10am to 1pm but we will do our best to make sure it actually opens at 12pm)
Event date: March 12th
RSVPs for our 2026.2 event at JustPark are now live!
📅 When: Thursday, 14th May, 6:30pm
Giordano Scalzo's talk ("AI-Accelerated Mobile Development: From idea to build, faster than ever") from our 2025.5 event at Google (/Firebase) is now live on YouTube! https://youtu.be/QqHiv3suI6E
RE: https://mastodon.social/@NSLondonMeetup/116482235389621375
To help address existing imbalances in attendance, we’re offering a limited number of early-access spots to women, non-binary people, and others who are currently underrepresented in the iOS developer community
Request a space 👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkWvVomYXUwESWHet2HDxTia4euvYcP2WKtkVQLXCzjmtbvA/viewform
🚗💚 Join us for an exciting evening hosted by JustPark in Kings Cross!
📅 When: Thursday, 14th May, 6:30pm
Talks by Raphael Velasqua, Paul Shone, and Vadim Popov
✍️ RSVPs open Mon, 4th May at 1pm
☕️🌳 Thanks to everyone that joined us on Saturday for our April social where we met up for a coffee and finished with a walk into Hyde Park. We’re always open to feedback and suggestions so please send over your ideas! See you soon for our 2026.2 event 💜
Join us on Saturday April 18th for a relaxed, social session focused on sharing apps, ideas, and feedback 💡
📍 WatchHouse by Hyde Park
⏰ 11:00-13:00
If the weather is nice, we might even head out for a stroll through the park 🌿🚶☀️
The sun has come out at Apple Battersea here in London for the “awe dropping” iPhone releases! ☀️
Let us know if you picked up an iPhone 17, iPhone Air, or anything else today 📱
Thanks to the Apple Retail team for all their hard work today 💜
2026.1 Speaker #1: @darryl_bayliss@mastodon.social
“Building Apps for Multiple Apple Platforms”
Have you ever wondered how an app works across different Apple platforms and what the setup looks like? Learn how to build for Apple's variety of platforms using the power of Swift and SwiftUI.
Join us for another exciting evening hosted by Apple at the iconic Battersea Power Station!
Thurs, 12th March, 6pm. Talks by: @darryl_bayliss@mastodon.social and @richarddas@mastodon.social
RSVPs open Thursday 26th February at 12pm
Peter Friese's talk ("Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Hybrid AI with Apple Intelligence and Firebase AI Logic") from our 2025.5 event at Google (/Firebase) is now live on YouTube! https://youtu.be/RwqZbXXij0g
Ulad Ramanenka's talk ("From Breaking Apps to Building One: My iOS Dev Journey") from our 2025.3 event at Monzo Bank is now live on YouTube! https://youtu.be/Ylexsh9pCNM
We’re lining up talks for 2026!
If you’re building, learning, experimenting, or shipping things across iOS, Swift, Apple platforms, design, or AI, we’d love to hear from you.
Please fill out our Call for Speakers Form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbmLmjK9jOyNS9pWYLmHHMsyM6zPABi0B5HdsUkdj2bN22rA/viewform
⭐️ ServerSide.swift “Fundamentals Workshop” Ticket Price Reduction ⭐️
Daniel Steinberg is running an introduction to Server Side Swift workshop this coming Wednesday in London. It’s just £25!
It’s a good fit if you’ve never done server development before or played with Vapor and want to go a little further.
Make sure to check out the @swiftcraft@hachyderm.io conference in Folkestone, back again for 2026!
🎟️ Tickets are available at https://swiftcraft.uk/news
🗣️ Call for Speakers is also open, which closes on 30th January 2026 at https://swiftcraft.uk/callforspeakers
A few of us at NSLondon will be attending so we hope to see you there!
The response to @NSLondonMeetup@mastodon.social at #Google has been huge 🎉
100 spots gone in minutes, 80+ on the waitlist!
We just opened more spots after securing extra space. Mostly backfilling, so follow us to catch future #Apple dev meetups.
🚀 Join us with Google on Wed 26 Nov, 6:30 PM
📍 1 St Giles High St, WC2H 8AG London
- Peter Friese — “Hybrid AI with Apple + Firebase”
- Hannah Downey — “Compose Yourself: SwiftUI × Compose”
- Giordano Scalzo — “AI-Accelerated Mobile Development”
✍️ RSVPs open soon → https://www.meetup.com/nslondon/events/311356134/