My Magic Hours project – what’s up next
This is my 20th post filed under get noticed tag, which means that I have reached the contest’s finish line :) Hip hip hooray! So I’ve made a short movie on this occasion, showing what my app can do at the moment. I have to warn you,…
Who doesn’t like hamburgers? ;)
A hamburger menu or a pancake menu is a button usually placed in a top corner of a mobile app. The name comes from button’s icon which takes form of three horizontal lines ☰ resembling the layers of a hamburger or a pile of pancakes. I love both ;)…
Implementing UICollectionView with horizontal scrolling and dynamic cell sizes
One of my magic hours app feature will be the ability to search for a location and save it for the future use. I need a control that will display my stored locations and I decided that I’ll place it at the bottom of the app’s…
A few thoughts on designing iOS layout
There was a slight change in concept of how I want my magic hours app main screen to look, comparing to what I’ve presented in my previous post. I’ve decided that timeline control would be, maybe, more suitable. So I had to finally deal with proper…
Localizing iOS app with SwiftGen
I came with my app development to a stage where I’m about to inform user about various things happening behind the scenes. This means that I have to present messages like: estimating current location, fetching weather forecast, etc. somewhere in the user interface. And this is the…
Fetching weather forecast in Swift
Yesterday I got really excited :) I’m talking about a feeling when you’re dealing with something which is still new for you, but at the same time you begin to understand how things are organised and what should be done to achieve the goal. I felt…
Getting off the beaten track
Every software developer has a set of programming habits that he or she has built over time. I’m talking about naming convention, code formatting rules, favourite language structures, design patterns, etc. Show me the code and I’ll tell you who of my work colleagues is…
Creating custom control in Swift
I spent last two evenings working on my app’s main screen. Again, Xcode was driving me crazy with random bugs that efficiently slowed me down ;) I needed to add an action by ctrl dragging element from storyboard to ViewController class. As I already…
Designing Magic hour’s app main screen
Today I focused on designing my application’s main screen. It’s going to be different than in my windows phone project. My previous app’s landing screen was in a form of a dashboard with tiles: Since I’m now able to calculate sunrise and sunset hours without going…
Calculating sunrise and sunset hours in Swift
After two days of struggle I came up with my application screen showing this :) There’s sunrise time in the first label and sunset time in the second. At least now I can see the pros of having emoji here :). Calculating these two is crucial for…
Damn, it’s hard…
It’s hard to get used to the new IDE, new shortcuts, new programming language and the new OS at the same time. I feel like a kid who got lost in the woods. And it’s getting dark! Stay calm, don’t panic and try to…
Trying to make friends with Swift
I finally managed to upgrade my mac to Sierra and was able to install the new version of Xcode. Hip, hip, hooray! I can go on now with the next chapters of my favourite App Development with Swift :) It’s worth to mention that the book is…
Swift for dummies
Swift is a relatively new programming language (introduced in 2014) developed by Apple for iOS and macOS. It was designed as an alternative for Objective-C: simpler syntax, no pointers and dot-notation style, which makes it a more friendly language to learn for people like me,…
Magic hours, my project for „Get noticed” contest
Two weeks ago I wrote a post confirming my willingness to take part in Get noticed contest. At that moment I wasn’t still sure what my project is going to be about. I only knew I wanted to focus on the mobile development. The contest…
Get Noticed!
So I have decided to take part in Get Noticed contest. The thing is for programmers and the rules are quite simple: one has to develop an open source project (in any technique) and blog about its progress :) It’s been a long time since I…
Prisma – love it!
Parę dni temu rzucił mi się w oczy artykuł na niebezpieczniku, o tym czy rzeczywiście powinniśmy się bać nowego hitu na smartfony. Mowa o aplikacji Prisma, dostępnej na ajfony (od niedawna również na androida), która potrafi przekształcić zdjęcia w małe dzieła sztuki za pomocą sprytnych filtrów…
Dobra zmiana. Xamarin Evolve16.
Właśnie oglądam transmisję z konferencji Xamarin Evolve16. Dobra zmiana? Xamarin. Co to jest? Deliver native iOS, Android, and Windows apps using existing skills, teams, and code. Z technologią zetknęłam się ponad rok temu. Dla mnie oznaczało to wtedy jedno: możliwość tworzenia mobilnych aplikacji na wszystkie…