The sheer amount of bugs I run into trying to make a SwiftUI app just run in a Mac Catalyst environment makes me question whether anyone at Apple is actually using SwiftUI on the Mac. 🤦🏻♂️
@jsnell perhaps strangely, one of the use cases that I’m really looking forward to trying on the Apple Vision Pro is reading.
Not sure how nice it will be, but laying in bed with a giant page above me that I don’t have to hold that I can turn with a quick gesture has potential (depending on how easy the page turning gesture is).
This evening my girlfriend and I kicked off our vacation with a visit to our favorite bar followed by a comedy sho. Looking forward to relax and explore London again next week!
@simonbs Timing is perfect. Enjoy some good beers on your vacation and congrats on getting it done it time. I’ll be sure to try it out on Feb 2 for you!
Nooo Qi2 battery packs are out but they don't support the handy MagSafe stuff like showing the pack's percentage when attaching it (or in the widget) 😢 At least the Anker one doesn't. Also it's a thicc boi
Yesterday was George T. Stagg’s birthday — one of the old founders of what’s now known as Buffalo Trace Distillery. Today, his name lives on as a very limited release bourbon. One my favorite drinks on Earth.
It started with updating the Apple Watch app to use the new design language of watchOS 10. It was supposed to be quick change to the map view, but we ended up re-doing all of the UI and completely flipping the navigation paradigm.
The app now launches directly to the map with products, alerts, radars, maps controls, ect all available from there. It is bascially the phone UI, but shrunk down.
It makes quickly checking the radar much faster by moving advanced stuff off of initial view.
The other big thing we wanted to add was Smart Stack widgets for the watchOS 10. These are built using the same technology as our iOS/macOS widgets, so getting that working was pretty trivial.
But I released that any Smart Stack widget can also be added to certain watch faces where they can be displayed in a tinted mode rather than full color.
Figuring out a way to make the radar view usable with a single color + white was a really fun design and engineering challenge.
Once I did that, it was only a small amount of work to get it running on the iPhone lock screen. They work similar to the accented mode, but with only grayscale being available.
So at that point, we had rectangular widgets that could be displayed on the watch face, Smart Stack, and Lock Screen.
As a joke, I enabled the smaller circular size just to see what it would look like. It was immediately my favorite version of it.