iOS Dev • Creating indie apps previously @guardian, @chase_uk & @skyUK #womenintech
London, England
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Here is the Animated Mascot tutorial you have all been waiting for
piped.video/A4sV3DuCVrY
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As a math lover Im annoyed just reading this.
What would you do in this situation?
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I get that it cant be explained to the kids but it seems that the teachers here didn’t know the answer themselves.
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🤯 And asda wont let us take more than 2 packs of paracetamol at a time.
I have so many questions.
Who on earth needs a 1000 ibuprofen?
Does it come with a “Use within 3 months” kinda instructions?
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I would like to take my 15 minutes of fame to shamelessly promote our 11+ Maths app for kids.
I'd love all and any feedback.
Its still a work in progress: UI is quite basic and some questions may have errors but we are working hard to improve it.
apps.apple.com/us/app/11-mat…
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It's been 12+ years since I joined Twitter, and I just realised that if you like a tweet 3 times, it automatically takes a screenshot.
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Your first app won’t make you rich.
But it’ll change you.
Because now you’ve proven you can turn ideas into reality.
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I just received an email offering a Senior iOS dev position (6 years of experience). Offering 40k.
Are you kidding me? Has it come to this? Is the UK tech market really this bad?
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Re-read The Alchemist( by @paulocoelho) after more than a decade.
The teenage me found the book too woo-woo. However today it really hit home. I UNDERSTAND it now and somewhat relate to it.
It's funny how you interpret same things so differently at different stages of your life.
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99% of people will never ship an app.
If you’ve shipped anything, no matter how small, you’re already ahead of most devs.
I know because I was one of the 99% for a decade.
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You know you built something useful when a user churns but then comes back after a while ❤️
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Having a debug menu in settings while developing saves you a TON of time when testing.
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Waking up to this is another feeling entirely. Its the first time Iv made this much in 24 hours as an indie 😳
And the product is not even live yet its a BETA 😳
I better get working.
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Can we find a better word to replace "senior" in the "senior software engineer" title?
It makes me feel super old!
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This guy made a million dollars making apps without knowing how to use git.
This is proof that you don't need to know everything to make it as an indie, just enough to ship.
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Users don’t care that your app uses SwiftUI, Combine, or Core Data.
They care that it makes their life 10 seconds easier.
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Sometimes I wish @Apple would declare UIKit deprecated already so that we can all just move on, update our code and forget about it altogether.
#swiftui #ios #developer
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I spent 3 hours reverse engineering various iOS apps today just for fun. Its so interesting to see the inner workings of other apps.
Also shocking how easy it is to reverse engineer and extract all the useful data from most apps.
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If you’re an indie dev reading this: someone out there needs your weird little app. Keep building.
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Woohooo! My app got approved! 🎉🥳
A little embarrassed to share this since its not perfect yet. But as my first #flutter app its not too bad.
#buildinginpublic #buildinpublic
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If you are a sole developer on a project do you bother creating lots of feature branches or do you sometimes just commit straight in dev?
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After obsessively scanning cats for the past few days, Ive now released the Cat Identifier app.
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I don't understand when developers say they don't know where to get ideas for apps.
My head is constantly exploding with ideas. My problem is to pick what to build next from the massive list Ive got.
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My app was approved yesterday took less than 24 hours. 💃
However, I've removed it from App Store for now. I want to add a few more features before I make it public. But at least I have this build if the next bail isn't approved on time for #shipaton.
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TIL
Your app doesn’t need to be "fast". It needs to FEEL fast.
Show instant feedback, even if the work happens later.
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What minimum iOS version do you target and why?
Im using iOS 17 as minimum target due to some SwiftUI code which is not available prior to that.
But I wonder if I should lower it.
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Previously I used to try and ship a perfect product and end up not shipping at all.
I've changed my strategy now. I ship bare minimum features for the first versions and improve it over time. At least that way it makes to the AppStore.
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I added the paywall yesterday. It was quicker to tell CC to do it rather than create the paywall in RC.
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I update the screenshots and added the same colour in graphs as the icon.
Design is not my forte but I think this looks much better.
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Working outdoors today.
Can hardly see the screen but we get a total of 10 sunny days a year so gotta make the most of it 🌞
#britishweather
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I have no idea when my app made it to number 53 in Education 👀
But this is a pleasant surprise.
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How most large scale iOS apps look like. Started out in Objective C, but switched over to Swift in the middle, with the penthouse build entirely in SwiftUI.
#swift #swiftui #objectivec
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Every indie dev has two jobs:
1. build cool stuff
2. tell people it exists
Most of us devs suck at the second one.
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My app randomly got a 1000 downloads in one day last week, all from Canada. And then Nada. Whats going on? 🤷♀️
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I keep bookmarking these beautiful transitions but never get to use them because Im building in Flutter 🥲
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Do you commit your code from within Xcode?
I really like that I can quickly commit the code without switching to terminal or another software, however I don't love the UI.
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I do not understand how someone with no coding experience at all can vibe code a decent app and take it to the finish line.
At one point, AI does start screwing up and you have to dig into code and do things yourself. Admittedly this only happens 10% of the time for me but still
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This post just hit 1M views.
When I imagined going viral for the first time, I thought it would be over something related to tech and coding which is what I mostly tweet about.
Didn't think it would be ... this!
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Raise your hand if you worked on an app but never published it 🙋🏻♀️
#indiehackers #iosdev #swiftui #flutter
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People have started purchasing subscription for the Halal scanner app after trying it. It means they are finding it useful 🥲
Its more than just an AI wrapper. I put in a lot of effort to ensure good results and ease of use.
I plan to keep on adding more useful features to it.
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28 downloads on first day ain’t bad right?
Although I think most of them came from our marketing efforts as opposed to ASO.
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My app ratings went from 93 to 57 overnight.
Apparently it's not uncommon but the reason remains a mystery.
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I wrote minus ten lines of code today. Sometimes I wonder why is anyone paying me to do this?
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After shedding a bucket load of tears, I finally have the prod environment up and running in AWS.
Being a sole dev means theres no one to applause 🥲
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My scanner apps badly need a "crop photos" feature.
I just came across this brilliant library for that.
github.com/guoyingtao/Mantis
Bellissimo *Chef's kiss*
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