I’ve been playing with Catalyst since WWDC. Well not so much playing with it, but thinking about it while completely rewriting my Wasted Time app into SwiftUI. The main catalyst for rewriting the app is all the frustrations I had with Storyboards and Autolayout. Every time I wanted to add a new UI element to […]
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Status update on WastedTime (all platforms)
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working to do two things on the WastedTime set of apps. (Wow! I can say set of Apps now). While the basic functionality is working on all three platforms, iOS, macOS, and WatchOS, I am not happy with the behavior of SwiftUI to render the various graphics. SwiftUI […]
WastedTime for Mac (beta available)
So, I did it, I wrote my first ever macOS application. It is WastedTime for Mac, and I am amazed it works. It is still beta, and I am going to add in the twitter integration. I also need to add keyboard short cuts so you can you the (+) and (-) keys on your […]
Working on Wasted Time for Mac
Now that WastedTime Watch! Has been released, and so far, I’ve not heard any new bug reports, or even seen any crash reports, I’ve started re-writing WastedTime completely. What I mean by that is, I am working on converting the iPhone/iPad version to a Catalyst application. I will then release a Mac version. What does […]
Summer activities and Betas
Over the last almost two month I’ve been staying crazy busy, at work (the day job), at my non-profit (the opera group), and dealing with problems in the various Apple betas from this summer. The biggest issue of the Apple betas has been my experience with Catalina. While Catalina itself hasn’t been a big user […]
Making Progress – Stand alone Watch App
I’ve been working on learning SwiftUI and Combine. I figured the best way to do this was to completely re-write wasted time as a native stand alone watch app. To begin with I am working on the main Meeting screen. The following video shows how cool SwiftUI is in making this UI just “work” on […]
WWDC Wrap up
I decided to wait a week to write my WWDC wrap up, not because I’ve not had any time to write it due to the day job, non-profit work, and dealing with the WWDC Flu (okay that’s most of the reason), but also to give me time to reflect on all the things I saw […]
WWDC Day Four – Long, Fun Day
Thursday at WWDC ends with the “Bash”. This year the band was Weezer. I’ve liked their music in the past, and they were enjoyable. I didn’t stay for the entire show, since I was tired after an incredibly long day of really good sessions. Oh yeah, and I was carrying my book bag, which was […]
WWDC Day Three (AKA Wednesday)
Today turned into a pretty productive day. After the problems of Monday and the recoveries of yesterday, I was looking forward to a day when I could just enjoy the sessions an and possibly take to the labs to figure things out. I began the day with a session on Sign-In with Apple. I am […]
WWDC Day Two – Continued
Well, the team at the install lab were awesome. I wish I had left the machine alone when it went belly up, for multiple reasons. One, I would have spent most of Monday night getting frustrated, I wouldn’t have lost any data, and I would have given them a problem to debug. Instead, I got […]