{"id":324,"date":"2012-09-07T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T12:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triangleappshow.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2022-12-15T06:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T11:46:55","slug":"what-is-your-biggest-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/blog\/what-is-your-biggest-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"What is your biggest challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have a lot of time to do my blogging, coding, and gaming&#8230; I have my day job which has been consuming more and more of my free time, including my time on weekends, and evenings.  I bet many of you can relate to that, especially if you are doing mobile development in your spare time.  I picked up mobile development a few years ago, as a way of getting back to the code.  I&#8217;d been a developer many years ago, but as my career advanced, I started doing architecture, management, etc.   The more I advanced the less I got to code. <\/p>\n<p>Getting back to the code two years ago, was load of fun.  It provided me with hands on experiences that many of my day job&#8217;s customers were dealing with.  The ability to get back to this level of understanding has been invaluable.  Having said that, I am also dealing with many of the challenges that customers and other developers are dealing with.  A few of the ones I&#8217;ve been dealing with are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeping up with multiple device characteristics.  Even though most of my development is on iOS, I am still dealing with iPhone vs. iPad, normal vs. Retina.  I can only think that adding android or Windows phone will compound that challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Testing, and I don&#8217;t just mean the device problem.  As a one person development team, I find that testing mobile apps to be difficult.  I use the emulator to test as much as I can, but I also have to test on my devices.  Of course, I don&#8217;t have all generations of the iPhone.  To that end, I tend to force people to upgrade to &#8220;current&#8221; versions of iOS.  This is probably not practical for most developers.<\/li>\n<li>UX\/UI design.  I am not a graphic artist.  So even though I have ideas, I can&#8217;t always visualize them.  So things don&#8217;t look as good as I want them.<\/li>\n<li>New toolkits.  I am working on a game&#8230; Of course I am not an expert on all of the classes and methods within iOS, so adding a game platform library into the mix means I am even less of an expert.   When should I use the toolkit vs. native?  How to best optimize my apps performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are your biggest challenges?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have a lot of time to do my blogging, coding, and gaming&#8230; I have my day job which has been consuming more and more of my free time, including my time on weekends, and evenings. 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