While my post about Greeting Keeper being available had somehow got stuck in draft, I am posting a second blog entry to talk about the challenges that the app has had and what I am trying to do about it. First, shortly after releasing the app, and buying the first copy myself, I put out […]
Author: Michael Rowe
Greeting Keeper Released
Well, after writing, rewriting, refactoring, and replatforming for six year, I have finally released a personal project to the App Store. Greeting Keeper has gone thru UIKit, SwiftUI, CoreData, CloudKit, and SwiftData to become a pretty useful app. It does, however, have two major bugs, that crept in during the release, and I am trying […]
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 ). Since then, in order to […]
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 rathole on a question that […]
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. I changed […]
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 and to add their own […]
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 feature is something I’ve been […]
Card Tracker ReWrite
For the last five years or so, I’ve been working on a pet project to track the various greeting cards we send out each year. The initial version had a lot of UI problems, so I used it as an opportunity to learn SwiftUI. The second major rewrite was to add CloudKit integration so that […]
Deletes in Holiday Card Tracker
I’ve been working on a Greeting Card tracking app, in my spare time for years now, five to be exact. I may get it on the App Store one day, but primarily it is just used to track the cards my wife and I send to friends and family. I’ve re-written it a few times, […]
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 the AppDelegate feature of older […]