iOS Development on Ivan: Thinking

In April, I started inviting folks to test out Little Memory 2.0, a full re-write of the one-sentence-a-day journal I launched in 2011.

I, too, have been concerned about the vertical tab bar on the iPhone Duo not having space for labels.

Around mid-2021, I’d started developing SwiftUI apps in a new way.

Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (via): Native still means building and maintaining software on two platforms, that cost has not disappeared.

Ivory’s account switching: There is also something great in seeing an interface that grows with you, or one where you can say “I wonder if…” based on your prior interactions and expectations, and the interface actually rewarding you for that thought.

Now it’s faster and easier to add a new plan on Ready Time.

Revisiting using Cursor for trying out more non-Claude agents, which I haven’t done too much of recently.

I was working on fixing a bug in Lilmem 2.0 where switching from the diary’s Calendar mode to Memories mode caused a bug where the diary’s content “stuck” in a specific day.

I’ve been reading iOS Dev Weekly for years now.

Debugging a crash on the new Little Memory 2.0 app today, and found a crash report with the termination code: 0xdead10cc.

Ready Time is moving up the ranks at TinyLaunch.

I built Ready Time to take the guesswork out of leaving on time.

I’ve been in the weeds getting Little Memory 2.0 ready.

This one’s been a long time coming.

Daring Fireball: Either you know that software can be art, and often should be, or you think what I’m talking about here is akin to astrology.

Posted on r/SideProject.

Kids and Vibe Coding: It’s easy for us to spot the issues.

We’re always underestimating how long things take: mornings with a kid catching a flight getting out the door for dinner appointments you can’t be late to It always feels like there’s enough time until suddenly there isn’t.

Ready Time is the rebranded name for Little Countdown.

Sometimes you need a task to happen at a specific time.

Danijela Vrzan posted a very cool solution to streamlining entering login credentials in Xcode and the iOS Simulator using breakpoints.

Little Countdown 2.0 is now available for iOS.

Developer News and Community If I could give any advice to all new iOS developers, it’s that they should keep up with the ever-changing iOS ecosystem.

SwiftUI provides an easy way to link URLs and emails inside of a Text view using AttributedString’s markdown initializer: let text = "Jenny's at 867-5309

My life for Aiur How to do?

In 2011, I was co-founder of Dojo, a startup focused on helping people build and keep habits.

Every year, when Apple makes its big announcement about the new iPhone being the most amazing device ever, you’re wondering whether you should upgrade or not.

How can you initialize a struct singleton that has dependencies?

Just like we use git to be able to audit changes to our code over time, doing so with our app’s AppStore metadata lets us keep an eye on changes made to our AppStore page as well.

When consuming an API response, we’ll often see an ISO 8601 formatted date String like this: 2020-04-20T16:20:42+02:00 As a String, it’s not really useful for us, as it’s not really something you want to show your users.

In your iOS app, you’ve got a Horizontal Stack with subviews layed out like so: override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let loveLabel = UILabel() loveLabel.text = "LOVE" loveLabel.backgroundColor = .systemRed let ki…

Sometimes called Coachmarks, a Wizard, or an Onboarding Flow, this common UX pattern is used to guide first time users to an app on its features in your UI.

With latest update to iOS app, Little Countdown users can easily add a new Countdown pre-filled with upcoming flight details A new update to the Little Countdown app for iOS makes planning even easier for frequent flyers by notifying users of upcoming fli…

With the small iOS team at Hipmunk, having to maintain a box to run Xcode Server would have been costly in terms of: Buying hardware Upgrading/maintaining the hardware Keeping the OS/software up to date Furthermore, we’d have to find a separate solution f…

Do your TestFlight or Crashlytics have change notes that say something useless like Fixed bugs?

Latest Little Countdown update lets users quickly add new Countdowns based on iOS Calendar events A new version of Little Countdown is now available on the Apple App Store that integrates with the iOS Calendar.

With latest update to iOS app, Little Countdown users can now hear their current task by asking Siri.

New app from creator of the mindfulness app, Little Memory, helps relieve traveler stress by getting them ready and out the door to the airport on time.