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 …
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Shot on iPhone 13 Pro
Have to say, the new iPhone 13 commercials are quite funny. Would not say is ‘Hollywood in your pocket” but it’s impressive nonetheless. Hope you’re all having a great holiday break, Marc
Iterating on MarsManaged Palette & Icon – First Round
With MarsManaged edging closer to feature-complete, today I took some time to start iterating over color palette & icon concepts. First, lets talk about the palette: The premise of the app is that you’ll be as productive as future martian generations will be. With that in mind, when it comes to the color palette of …
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Looking back at 3 years of NewsWave
With its retirement approaching, here’s some trivia about NewsWave: ONBOARDING – 70% of users that downloaded the app ended up creating an account. That was a huge increase from the 20% I was seeing initially. Below the new onboarding flow that premiered with 2020.1 -old icon included-. FEEDS – NewsWave continuously monitored 4,382 feeds for updates. …
NewsWave will be sunset early next year
NewsWave, the twitter-style RSS news feed, will be sunset early next year. WHY? Even though it has very loyal users and both iOS and macOS apps reviewed very well -4.8 for iOS & 4.5 for macOS-, ultimately the recurrent revenue did not justify the time I’d need to invest in to further enhance it. Leaving …
Blog migrated to new server
If you’re reading this post it means the server migration went well & this blog is now running from a California datacenter. Also, took the opportunity to update from Debian 9 to Debian 11 so I don’t need to worry about EOL until June 2026. Crossing fingers. Until next time, Marc
Using NSTextView in SwiftUI
MarsManaged is built on SwiftUI. At the time of this writing, November 2021, SwiftUI is still quite new and catching up to AppKit/UIKit capabilities. As many early adopters, I found myself in a situation where a key feature I wanted to build for the app was not feasible using only SwiftUI views. I needed good …
MenuBar Items in SwiftUI
Before SwiftUI you would easily add, change or remove menuBarItems from your app Storyboard. With the transition to SwiftUI however, there’s no longer a StoryBoard file to edit… So, what now? After the initial surprise, and having spent a few hours reading documentation… It’s actually a very straightforward three step process: 1. In your @main …
Preventing edits in TextFields unless cell is selected
For the ToDo section in MarsManaged, the goal is for the user to see and quickly manage their upcoming tasks. The user should be able to easily tweak bookmarked tasks, set target dates, complete or delete them. Now, given that each cell is composed of multiple editable TextFields, it’s important to prevent unintended editing on …
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SwiftUI modifier order matters
This Sunday I spent pretty much all day working on MarsBased. I woke up early, went to the gym, made myself some coffee and got to work. In front of me was a prioritized list of “feature enhancements” my wife had prepared for me -she’s an excellent Product Manager so she always has great feedback- …