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I’m making progress on the user interface for the app. Most of my time has been spent on making the Event List views look the way I want. I’ve also updated the Event Edit view with a new timeline picker and a long form text view for editing notes. Timeline and Event List views side…
This morning I made a custom version of a picker for the events form. I needed a way for events to select a different timeline. The default picker in SwiftUI had some limitations so I set out to make my own. The only main difference is that it uses a sectioned list with timelines sorted…
This is something I keep forgetting how to do so I’m posting this as a reference for future me and anyone else that finds it helpful. These instructions assume you have created a new Xcode project with these options. This will create some boiler plate Core Data code in the AppDelegate and SceneDelegate. In the…
I’ve been spending a lot of time today thinking about the row for the list of event dates. This has been something I’ve been sort of stuck on for the last couple of weeks. This list is a bit tricky because the data on it is not strictly events. The rows represent date records related…
I spent a little time this evening playing with app icon ideas. This is the one I like the most so far. Update: 2019.10.30 I made my first round of revisions of these. I added some gradients and I replaced the white color with a light grey and I think looks pretty nice.
There are some issues with the NavigationView in SwiftUI that prevent the Master Detail version from showing the back button in portrait mode. To get around this I’m using StackNavigationViewStyle. This is OK on most iPads, but on the larger iPad Pro models in landscape it looks ridiculous. This is my attempt to get around…
Up until now I’ve been using separate views for Event Detail (view only) and Event Edit. I decided to try to combine these into one view and work them into the main navigation stack. This way event data entry can be done without opening a modal. Adding a new event will still be done in…
I’ve spend the last few weeks working on schema and core data. I’m ready to start working on some more advanced user interfaces. Before I begin I wanted to share some images of what the app looks like as of Oct. 14, 2019. Timelines will likely change very little, but I have a lot of…
I based most of my core data code for Retrospective Timelines on an example project that you can check out here. The developer sent me the link to this in a comment on stack overflow a couple of months ago. Throughout the project I’ve made small changes to this to better suite my needs. Today…
Yesterday I mentioned an issue I can across when sorting date records. Some of my date records could validly have a nil value in the date field (these are the “end” records for ongoing events). The problem was that Core Data was sorting these nil records to the wrong part of the list. When sorting…
I wrote about a sorting issue in Retrospective Timeline a while back. You can read the full post here. At the time I decided to go with Solution A, which involved wrapping my core data objects in a container using map and filter calls. That approach worked at first, but there were some issues when…
Naming things is HARD
