Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

On a mission to make great apps • Learning to be app-entrepreneur • Curious to make things differently • Building Backend Widget • iOS dev

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apps.apple.com/app/backend-wi…Joined June 2015

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Alex Oleynyk

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Nov 10, 2022

I'm happy to announce, Backend Widget is out 🎉 It's a tiny app to bind any API response to nice looking widget on your home screen. You could track your own SAAS data this way 😏 Get it now: apps.apple.com/app/backend-wi DM or tweet me for feedback - would love to hear from you!

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Jan 10

Okay, I came across a new one - it's an example from documentation to one of endpoints

As a frontend developer, share the best joke from your backend (real life situations). I’ll go first: - Hey, could you please sort this array on backend? - Yeah, no problem. - 🤦‍♂️ #SoftwareDeveloper #iosdev

Thinking about redesign for my latest app - Backend Widget. First version was built with limited time, with zero upfront design and bad software decisions. And now I need to rethink how it works under the hood in order to add new features. Think before you code 🧙‍♂️

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Jan 6

Trying to refactor paged sectioned list from imperative (left) to more functional approach (right) Not sure which one I like better 🤔 If-elses looks a bit confusing. Nested closures confuse no less, but I like there is no variable assignments. #iosdev

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Dec 6, 2022

Word of the day: Daily Stand Up It’s a meeting where nobody listening, and everyone still believes they are following Agile. #SoftwareDeveloper

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Nov 27, 2022

Check this new app from Sebastian 👇

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Sebastian Röhl

@SebastianRoehl

Nov 27, 2022

Excited to announce the release of @HabitKit to the App Store and Google Play.

Build new habits and track your progress

Beautiful tile-based grid visualization

Customize with colors, icons and themes

Searchable calendar

Data import/export habitkit.app

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Nov 15, 2022

My first $10 from paid app in AppStore 🤩 Thank you all for your support 🤝 #buildinpublic #iosdev

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David Jöch

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Nov 14, 2022

The intro for our new indie app series on YouTube is done, and episode 1 will be out soon! We love it 🤩 How do you like it? (🔉 watch it with the music!) ⬇️ Link to the channel below, to not miss the first video

What do you think about using AnyView in #SwiftUI? Want to make polymorphic view creation, but because of `associated type` inside View protocol I cannot do it. One option is to create enum and map specific types (without compiler helping me) or use AnyView (don't like it)

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Nov 11, 2022

Challenge time: can you find a way to reproduce #AppStore #iOS16 tab bar appearance bug?

Thinking about writing series of articles about programming What do you think is the best platform to start with? Medium, my own blog, other suggestions? 🤔 #programming #iosdev

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Nov 8, 2022

Just submitted my app to AppStore. Let's cross the fingers and hope it won't take 5 days as it was with previous app 🤞

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Nov 7, 2022

Was preparing screenshots for AppStore, and discovered I can’t set wallpaper for #iOS16 simulator in a default way. Found an interesting workaround for this. Details in video below. #iosdeveloper #buildinpublic

You can override status bar time for simulator with this command: xcrun simctl status_bar "iPhone 14 Pro" override --time "9:41" Useful for preparing screenshots #iosdev #xcode #iosdeveloper

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Oct 27, 2022

Polishing Backend Widget before release 👀 Waiting for review before able to invite external testers to TestFlight. Do you want to try this app? It's not final version, and some stuff probably will change, but it is fully working. #buildinpublic #iOSDev

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Oct 26, 2022

Is it bug or feature? If you present List or Form modally in #SwiftUI it has different colors for background and cell itself 🫠 Demo below shows same view as root and as modal. Modal version has lighter colors for some reason. #iOSDev

Now backend widget supports hierarchy of json objects 🎉 Need to improve visual representation though. Plain string looks strange with hierarchical json key. But how to make it accept user input string as well as selected value from picker 🤔 #buildinginpublic #indiedev

Discovered hidden feature in my app 😂 It’s impossible to remove icon, because I replace invalid values with default symbol. But it is possible to specify symbol color same as widget background.

Finished with app icon. It looks much more alive with real icon 🤩 It’s stack of widgets, B letter on top and cloud symbol at the same time (because it’s for backend) Have a productive week #buildinpublic people 🚀

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Oct 22, 2022

With #UIKit it’ll take probably only 2 lines of code 1) scrollToOffset 2) shakeCell And bonus: I’m able to control speed of scrolling, while with SwiftUI it’s hidden and unavailable for developers 🤷

Continue struggling with #SwiftUI 😂 This time I want to scroll to specific widget and play animation to bring user’s attention to selected item. To make it work I need 2 optional properties and set with visible items. Plus some logic and modifiers. #iosdev #buildinpublic

I’ve added configuration into widgets, so now it’s possible to create multiple of them and show different data in different widgets. Time to think about app icon. #buildinpublic #indiedev

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Oct 20, 2022

But even if I pass FocusState from parent view, it works only in one way - to set first responder. I can’t dismiss keyboard programmatically. Made UIKit wrapper text field, works like a charm, without hidden behaviors. This is why I still think SwiftUI isn’t ready.

FocusState not working if you are using it inside child view, with text field inside navigation title. Why? Because for some reason navigation bar manages its own FocusState inside view where NavigationView was created.

What I like about #SwiftUI - simple things are incredibly easy and straightforward to implement. What I dislike - something a bit more complex usually stupidly hard or even impossible to make. Spent 2 days on renaming feature, ended up using #UIKit #buildinpublic #iosdev

Thanks for the follow, it works just perfect with 1 hour refresh interval 🎉

I’ve made backend widget to use with any api requests. Now I’m able to track followers from Home screen. Please follow so I could prove it works 😂 Want to try it? Comment with 🐣 #buildinpublic #iosdev #indiedev

Trying to get underlying dynamic color based on user selected theme. Even if I can pass any traits, system will resolve color based on UITraitCollection.current 🤷‍♂️ uiColor.resolvedColor(with: .init(userInterfaceStyle: .dark))

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Oct 12, 2022

Check this second app from Kris if you want to track your emotions 🎭

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Kris Slazinski

@KSlazinski

Oct 9, 2022

My 2nd iOS app got accepted!

Folks, meet Emo

Emo is a simple app to help you keep track of your emotions and improve your #wellbeing It’s very affordable. There are no ads and no hidden payments.

Link to the app: apple.co/3Vh0en4 #indiedev #RT #PleaseRT

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Oct 11, 2022

2nd day of my 3weekAppBuild journey Building backend widgets: - Specify request - Bind values to UI - That's it 😎 Later I imagine some dashboard with similar logic. Useful to play with your own API and observe some data (MRR?) #buildinpublic #iOSDev

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I have 3 weeks free of work. So decided to try build app with some restrictions: - SwiftUI only (I still think it’s not ready) - Default native components and animations as much as possible (I love custom UI) - Publish by end of 3 weeks #indiedeveloper #iOSDev

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Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Oct 11, 2022

One more discovery: auto-generated init with optional closure callback contains non-valid code 😆

Discovered by mistake (miss-clicked) that Xcode now has shortcut for duplicating lines of code: Cmd + D 🎉 Useful for duplicating items in arrays or repetitive views #iOSDev #xcode

Forget to mention one more restriction: no upfront design. I'm trying to build everything from code, maybe with some inspiration from Pinterest and quick sketches on paper. So again, something I'm not comfortable with. Usually, I try to plan everything and then start building

The big 3 of OOP: - Ignorance - don't know - Apathy - don't care - Selfishness - it's all about me, why are we talking about you and what you are? Great thinking model to create objects by

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Dan Gauthier

@danielmgauthier

Sep 28, 2022

🚀✨ Up Ahead is a countdown app for people who like nice things, and it’s out now! (Please tell everyone you know.) My goal was to fill Up Ahead to the brim with joy and personality, and I’m very proud of where it's ended up 🧑‍🎨 Get it for free: apps.apple.com/app/up-ahead-c

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I've just realised that shortcuts with Shift + Number actually expect symbols. Shift + Cmd + 1 = Cmd + ! Shift + Cmd + 2 = Cmd + @ I have dedicated keys for symbols on my keyboard, so I can omit Shift from shortcuts 😎

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Sep 8, 2022

We have only 2 features in app. And a lot of bugs already 😂 Is it only me? #iOSDev #appdeveloper

Alex Oleynyk

@alex_oleynyk

Sep 3, 2022

And this is demo for implemented User Story for date selection #buildinpublic #iosdeveloper

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Next User Story Walkthrough for our #buildinpublic app Usually, I could remember approximate day, when I was thinking about specific ideas (last day, this week). This could provide logical way of thinking about initial order in app Design details in thread

#iosdev #indiedev

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