Wasted Time Pro – Launch Date

Well, I’ve finally done it. I have submitted an app that will launch on the same day as a new piece of Apple hardware. I have taken my simple application – Wasted Time, and did a total re-write over the last year to better take advantage of SwiftUI and the latest Swift APIs.

Wasted Time version 1.0 (2010)

I changed the underlying architecture to use the new Swift @main entry point, and even got rid of the old AppDelegate model I used to use. AppDelegate was the model that you used way back in Objective-C programs.

The basic functionality of Wasted Time hasn’t changed since 2010, however I did remove Twitter a few years back.

Here’s what it will look like on the Apple Vision Pro.

I can’t wait to get ahold of the Apple Vision Pro hardware, so I can actually see my code running outside of the simulator.

A VisionPro-ductive Week

It’s been a solid week now with the Apple Vision Pro. When I got it last Saturday, I provided a before and after view of the experience as part of my Weekly Podcasts Games At Work dot Biz (you can find it here Episode 452 – Before and After )…. Continue reading

Always learning new things

Yesterday I went to #Unwrap Live 2024. This online, all day, SwiftUI programming class by Paul Hudson from Hacking With Swift fame, was all about the Apple Vision Pro this year. I love the way Paul explains code, techniques, and APIs. The other valuable thing is, he is willing to… Continue reading

SwiftData / SwiftUI Combo Frustrations

The last few posts have been about my re-write of my personal application to address greeting cards. This has been a very frustrating effort as I’ve tried to restructure the app’s UI to better adhere to Apple’s design principles in order to allow the user edit both a recipient’s Address… Continue reading

Card Tracker Rewrite Update

This weekend I had a major milestone of the rewrite. All features are working (except edits). I was successful in adding a new feature of allowing for looking at all the cards sent for a specific event, i.e. Show me all the Christmas cards by date and recipient. This new… Continue reading

Wasted Time’s Latest Rewrite

As is my habit each summer after WWDC, I rewrite my Wasted Time app to try and take advantage of the latest changes for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. This summer has been no difference; however, I also took some time to completely refactor the application to no longer use… Continue reading