by Marc Maset
Empty states. Or to put it another way, what do you show when a view is devoid of any content? This is an area that not all apps account for. The ones that do though, not only improve the end-user experience but also feel more… complete? Here’s some examples of empty states. 1. NetNewsWire (a great RSS …
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If you’re creating a macOS app, the About screen is that place where you get to “sign” your work. It is also the place where most developers will link to their personal web, thank contributors, etc. For me, it’s one of the areas I work on last… When I get to it, it always feels great. …
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As I was working on cell badges indicating the number of to-dos pending for a given card it hit me… The approach I was taking was good, it gave relevant and timely information… But could be much better: what if the flag changes color when you have a to-do overdue, due today, tomorrow or soon? This …
Another weekend, another set of improvements for MarsManaged. This time, I focused on adding an autocompletion feature for Tags. Let me provide some context first… In MarsManaged, cards may be linked to one or multiple tags. In the below example, the “Welcome to MarsManaged!” card is linked to the tag “Samples” (yellow arrow). To link one …
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Lots of progress the last couple of weeks, the first alpha should be ready… Soon? Hard to predict. What’s **not** hard to do is cover some of the features added last week. First, based on customer feedback, lots of work around Tags: – They can now include a template. If you create a Card …
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As easy as 1, 2, 3. Or is it? 1. Create a new SwiftUI file called PreferencePane and add the desired view within a TabView: import SwiftUI struct PreferencePane: View { var body: some View { TabView { …
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Always happy to see @dbaez publishing a new talk. Great as usual. Marc
This weekend I continued working on the TO-DO area, specifically on bringing the context-aware functionality of Cards to “Target Date” & “Last Modified” views. As most of the code complexities were sorted last weekend, this one I did quite a bit of progress. Here’s the latest: “Sort by Target Date” view: “Sort by Last …
This weekend I focused on the TO-DOS view of MarsManaged. Instead of a list, as I originally developed it, working on having multiple context-aware options. In the example below showing the ’Sort by Card’ one, seems to me this makes this view a lot more useful than a list? In light mode: And dark mode: …
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Let’s say you’re showing the user a list of sidebar selectable categories. These categories appear on the sidebar as SwiftUI Labels and, depending on the one selected, the app will show one view or another. So far, so good… But what if the user would like to rename one of the categories? Ideally Label would have …