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Day 24 of #100DaysOfAppDev. I am still wrestling with `PencilKit`, but I am also starting to get the hang of it. Biggest issue is that a doodle done on iPad will be much too large on the iPhone (naturally). Making progress. Could be a good blogpost once I have it in a state that satisfies me.
#buildinpublic

Day 22 (which was yesterday) and day 23 of #100DaysOfAppDev were filled with some good progress. I am able now to do simple doodles, persist and sync them. Now on to the nitty gritty details of managing #PencilKit.
I love that Apple provides us with stuff like that 🤗
#buildinpublic

Day 21 of my #100DaysOfAppDev . I’m doing pretty good progress in my little app I’m working on. App seems to be working good with #SwiftData and #CloudKit. Implemented a little tagging feature for one of my entities–a little head-scratcher will be how to enable having n tags on arbitrary entities with SwiftData (like a real n-n relation). For now, it’s just a property for one of them … #buildinpublic

Took a mini break from #100DaysOfAppDev yesterday to enjoy a day in the snow 🏂
Always a good opportunity to use the awesome indie app https://getslopes.com/ 🥰

On day 20 of #100DaysOfAppDev, I had a good call with @treboc in the morning discussion some Swift, but also some Go. One day will have more than 24 hours, I will take a deeper look into that language 😳
Other than that, I am doing good progress on the app I’m working on. My main entity and its first related 1-n entity are persisted, CRUD is implemented and CloudKit is activated 🎉
It’s in a state now that I myself can make use of it already 🥰

#100DaysOfAppDev, Day 19. I want to start with saying that @treboc introduced me yesterday to the new in iOS 18 modifier `.onGeometryChanged` (which was backported to iOS 16 !!!). Today, I stumbled over the blogpost by @nemecek_f on this topic: [Getting view size in SwiftUI without GeometryReader](https://nemecek.be/blog/208/getting-view-size-in-swiftui-without-geometryreader). So, YIL and TIL, I guess.
Was a good read, will have to try some things with that modifier.

On another note, I decided what app idea to work on in the coming days … 👀

On Day 18 of my #100DaysOfAppDev, I listened 👂 to the first episode of a new podcast series by @Compileswift called [Creating an app](https://overcast.fm/+AAJ0nX5p9Nw). I recommend listening to it: it’s concise, very digestible and full of good advice imo. Also, it’s inspiring. I love the way how Peter is sharing his knowledge and experience with the world 👏
It resonates with me cause I think lots of these thoughts apply to my current stage of things 🤗
/cc @matswiese: you gotta check it out!

On Day 17 of #100DaysOfAppDev , I had a good call discussing #swift with @matswiese and @treboc. Also, I had a good listen to #UnderTheRadar episode 305 (I have a certain backlog there …) on selling apps. That’s a long way to travel, I guess, but one can dream 🤗

@donnywals started to force myself into more accountability last year with my personal #100DaysOfAppDev with the goal to up my, well, app dev game with my personal projects. After not posting (and doing) all that much on that front, I want to get back into the habit of posting something on this each day.

Day 16 of #100DaysOfAppDev. Took a break during the holiday season–which does not mean that I did not touch any Swift/App Development at all. But it was pretty reduced. Will start getting into it again starting from today.
I took a good look at my #Notability document concerning my app ideas / states just now. There’s a lot of potential for learning and developing there …

Day 16 of #100DaysOfAppDev. Took a break during the holiday season–which does not mean that I did not touch any Swift/App Development at all. But it was pretty reduced. Will start getting into it again starting from today.
I took a good look at my #Notability document concerning my app ideas / states just now. There’s a lot of potential for learning and developing there …

Days 14 and 15 of my personal #100DaysOfAppDev.
Watched @twostraws’s birthday fund raising live stream yesterday–and also donated some. I found last year's stream on #SwiftData more interesting personally, but it was still fun seeing a small #SwiftUI game coming together.
Today, I had a morning call with @gvdevelopment going over our little project. Pretty low key …
I do hope to get something done during a few days off of the jobby job after tomorrow 😀

Day 13 of #100DaysOfAppDev. Successfully hunted down a Xmas tree today with the family 🌲that we’ll enhance tomorrow 🎄
Other than that, since I want to do some widget and Siri shortcuts stuff to the app I’m building, I watched some videos by the awesome @StewartLynch, specifically part 3 and 4 of his MyTallies series. My head is spinning now (it's also quite late)–but I hope to be able to implement something working tomorrow on these topics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4wH6nllUvA&t=0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQMogL8GpkE&t=0s

Day 11 *and* day 12 of #100DaysOfAppDev. And yes, I did forget to report that yesterday, @treboc, @matswiese and me went into the dark in the attempt to change Xcode code signing to manually for CI reasons in one of our projects … Neither fun nor successful so far, will have to take a look at this again. Today, I had a good call with @gvdevelopment, doing some mentoring on implementing a `ShareSheet`. That was much more successful thankfully 😅

Two-digits. Day 10 of #100DaysOfAppDev. Was wrestling with some #SwiftUI ‘s LazyHStack today, and I gotta say it’s coming together nicely 😀

I knew it would happen–forgot to report on day 9 of my #100DaysOfAppDev. Doesn’t mean I didn’t do anything swifty though. Was trying to figure out a good way of presenting strings yielded by ocr-ing document scans for a user to pick. In the evening, I had a good call with @matswiese in which he reported what he had learnt on his road of #100DaysOfSwiftUI. Might find its way to the public at some point 👀

This evening, I had a good call with @gvdevelopment discussing a small project we’re working on. We were looking at dependency injection and the new #\Preview macro in #SwiftUI. Also, we discussed on how to proceed with our little #buildinpublic project–all of that on day 8 of my #100DaysOfAppDev.
Tomorrow, I’ll have a call with @matswiese discussing his journey sailing the seas of #100DaysOfSwiftUI. Rock on

Today is day 7 of my #100DaysOfAppDev. Today, I learnt a lot about @tuist. Thanks to their wonderful support and some trial and error, I was able to implement a way to have individual entitlement files to add individual an app group entitlement for our project where we're collaborating with 3 different dev accounts. I call that a win 🎉
Also, I had an ad hoc brainstorm session with my wife for the #buildinpublic app I started a week ago. That produced some good input on what to do next.

Day 6 of #100DaysOfAppDev. This morning, we made sure that our hobby project is running on @matswiese’s Mac again. We're using @tuist there. Which led me down a rabbit hole I am still trying to get out of: we need a way to define `com.apple.security.application-groups` in a `xcconfig` file from Tuist. So far, the Tuist Slack didn't provide a working answer–even though I think I’m pretty close … On another note: had a conversation with AI there–which I didn't realise at first 😂

On day 5 of #100DaysOfAppDev, I implemented taking a snapshot in my app. @StewartLynch ‘s awesome series on this was tremendously helpful: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBn01m5Vbs4DLU9Yiff2V8oyslCdB-pnj&si=3sSYJm3gQWcCGosb
@matswiese, we should have a look at this, it’s awesome 😀

On Day4 of #100DaysOfAppDev , I had a morning call with a colleague of mine. That was the first call in a while; we were discussing a small #SwiftUI project of ours that we want to continue working on. In the evening, I had a call with @matswiese, discussing on how to proceed in our meetings where we discuss #Swift. Not too much #buildinpublic today, which will hopefully change tomorrow.

@donnywals I want to up my game in app dev, which is why I am starting a personal #100DaysOfAppDev to #buildinpublic and launch an app within the next 100 days hopefully. Also, I just started some kind of mentoring with a friend of mine, so that we can keep each other accountable. Should be fun