Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
A few months ago, Apple threw out my app Interval Runcalc for being too old. While it wasn't the most innovative, complex or profitable, it was an app I used frequently myself. It was a calculator for time, pace and distance for running not only for straight runs but for the run/walk/run community who use multiple-speed …
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. I fixed a bunch of bugs in the last two installments, with one major exception: Landscape is hard to read. My …
One of the biggest hazards of indie developers is getting full of themselves. You'll do things that you think are right or you found on StackOverflow from some other indie developer the looks like good code. Then someone comes along and tells you otherwise. The story so far: A few months ago, Apple removed my app …
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. Last time, I got the app working. It calculated intervals and used those for bigger measurements. I loaded the app on …
Continue reading "This Old App: There is Always One More Bug"
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In the last episode, I got the table to use multiple cells and the app to total those cells …
Continue reading "This Old App: Communicating with Container Views"
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In the last installment, I got the custom table view talking with the root view. This time I’m adding multiple cells to …
My latest course for Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning. I'll take you through the code to write for the iPhone and iPad gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer. Along the way we'll use some API's to make a pedometer and a fencing game. Like the new feature in iOS 11, I'll also show you how to stop an app when …
Continue reading "Advanced iOS App Development: Core Motion"
For the last two years I keep saying the same thing about the Keynote: This is for the consumers and press, not the developers that signed an NDA. Much of what was said was hardly earth shattering or exciting for developers. Far more hardware that I would have expected, much of it shipping now. There …
Continue reading "5 Takeaways From the WWDC Keynote You Won’t Hear From the Press"
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In my last installment I added a custom table view cell. In this installment, I’ll get the root view …
Continue reading "This Old App: Container Views and Table Cell Actions"
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In the last installment, I connected the model to the controller and was shocked to find they actually worked on the first …
