Retrospective Timelines was an iOS app that built in 2019 and 2020.
As of today, I’m giving up on my half-baked plans to make consumer software. I just took Retrospective Timelines off of the App Store and I don’t plan on renewing my Apple developer account. There are a number of reasons I’m making this decision. I’ll try to list a few here. While I enjoyed the…
I am beginning the planning process for Retrospective Timelines 2.0. Below I listed some of the areas that I want to focus on this summer. My hope is that the latest round of updates to SwiftUI, iOS 14, and iPadOS 14 will enable me to make significant improvements to the app. I have only just started to learn about the new features, so I do not know…
A new version of Retrospective Timelines is rolling out now. This version adds a handful of new features There is also a new bonus feature on the Event Detail screen. Now that the app supports multiple format types for dates and durations, I decided it would be awesome to switch between these with a simple…
Version 1.0 of Retrospective Timelines was written completely in SwiftUI and while I’m excited to keep working in SwiftUI, there were some issues and limitations that it imposed on my app. You can’t really talk about SwiftUI without someone pointing out that it’s not “ready” to be used in production yet. I mostly disagree with…
A new update is rolling out now with improvements to the data entry screens for Timelines and Events. These screens have been completely rewritten to support user interface features common to iOS apps.
One of the core features of Retrospective Timelines is the ability to share an Event as an image. I’m working in SwiftUI on this project so my first attempt was to see if I could render SwiftUI views as images. Last June Erica Sadun wrote a post about rendering SwiftUI on macOS Mojave that gave…
Retrospective Timelines version 1.0.2 is now available on the App Store. This update adds a new Filtering feature to the list of Events on your Timelines. Filter out End Date Records when working with date ranges, and also filter the list to only show Ongoing Events. This version also fixes a bug that could cause…
The first app update for Retrospective Timelines is hitting the App Store today. Features New color options when sharing an Event as an image. Small changes
Just over a week ago I launched Retrospective Timelines in the App Store. In fact, “launched” may be too strong of a word. I released the app on Sunday Dec 1, 2019 with little fanfare and even less of an idea of what I was doing. Over the months leading up to version 1.0 I…
I’ve had a longstanding issue in Retrospective Timelines. I have a simple EditButton on the list of timelines in my app. This button toggles the list into edit mode where the user can perform several actions. The issue was that when I closed the modal view with a button, sometimes the EditButton on the list…
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…
