A Big Step For An Old App

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I finally created a page for my new Time Clock Helper – Advanced App.

I am going to start working on screenshots today and hopefully get it submitted by the end of the day for review by Apple. If everything goes right it should be in the app store by tomorrow. It’s been a long road to get here, and it feels good to finally get the app out into the world and see what people think of it.

The app was created from scratch using Swift and SwiftUI. I learned a ton to get it to this point and I’m happy for the experience.

The app has a clean interface, but still allows for user flexibility. But, for the the most important aspect is that none of that came at the expense of usability. I kept the interface simple, but still feature rich.

Time Clock Helper – Advanced

Huh… So Much For Once A Week

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I thought I’d follow up a bit with what I’ve been up to over the last few weeks. I have been hard at work on my newest version of my Time Clock Helper app. It is almost ready for release, I’m working on some help screens right now, but other than that it all works. It does several things that the original app didn’t do, so that is handy. It also gives the user more control over what they will see on the screen and how they interact with it.

It has been slow going since I’ve been working on learning SwiftUI at the same time. I like it for the most part, but some parts of SwiftUI are a bit unclear, or unstable. I have learned a lot, though. It makes it nice going between different devices and letting Swift take care of making sure everything is laid out in a decent manner. It sure beats the hours I used to have to spend getting constraints just right for a storyboard. Changes can now take seconds to implement that used to take minutes or hours before.

So, yeah. SwiftUI has been worth the effort to learn and it promises to get easier and more powerful in the future.

Stepping Back Is Sometimes the Best Thing.

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I’ve struggled with posts for the last few days. I suspect that was pretty obvious. So, I think I might step away from a post a day since it’s taking a toll on the projects that I actually need to get done. I have some topics that I want to write about, but they will take more time to write than I want to take up in a day. So, I think for now I’m going to stop trying to post once a day and instead focus on other work.

I still hope to post at least once a week, and perhaps I’ll still try to post on Twitter somewhat regularly. That will still help with some marketing, but it will also give me the ability to focus on the projects that will actually pay my bills. Hopefully, anyone that follows this blog will understand.