Tag: summit

  • App icon design, one size does not fit all

    Yesterday I reposted Becky Hansmeyer’s vent about having to create multiple icon sizes for her app. I feel her pain. I recently completed an app for both iOS and Android and so I had to create just over 1,000,000 icon sizes. At least it felt like it. So, like her, I too would like Xcode…

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  • Creating Summit: The current summit view

    This post is the first in a series of posts about my experience building and designing Summit. This post focuses on just one view within the application; the current summit view. The idea for Summit came nearly 4 years ago as far as I can tell. I’ve hunted around for scraps of paper, digital notes,…

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  • E19: Launching Summit’s public beta

    Recorded on August 23 2017. A quickly captured audio bit while walking to get a coffee the day after launching Summit’s public beta. Download MP3.

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  • Pedometer++ 3.0

    _DavidSmith: I’ve been steadily working on Pedometer++ now for nearly four years. Over that time the core conceit of the app has remained the same, to motivate you to be more active. It has done this with colors, confetti, complications and streaks. Now I’ve added another tool to hopefully motivate, achievements! Pedometer++ continues to be…

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  • Colin Walker on the Summit beta

    Colin Walker: I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the time I’ve spent beta testing Summit and look forward to the new builds. Colin has provided excellent feedback on Summit. So have so many of the beta testers. I too am looking forward to publishing new builds. If you’re on the beta list (which you can get on by…

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  • Presenting at the August 2017 Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup

    The Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup is an excellent community in the Lehigh Valley that meets monthly at the Ben Franklin Technology Partners incubator within the Lehigh University Mountaintop campus. The community around the meetup is excellent and the building is amazing*. While the tail-end of my presentation walked through my experience building my first iOS…

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  • Repost: Dan Kimbrough on Twitter

    ☞ Dan Kimbrough: Cool new step counter, created here in #nepa. http://cdevroe.com/summit

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  • Summit – The Adventurous Step Counter

    This evening, at a presentation at the Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup, I’m opening up public beta access to my new iOS app, Summit – The Adventurous Step Counter. I’ve stitched together a temporary web site for the app as well as a mailing list that will allow you to get access to the final few…

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  • I can work on anything I want

    One of the most enjoyable aspects of working on your own project is that there is so much to do. That may seem strange, why would I want to have so much to do? But if you look at it a different way it becomes a much more enjoyable experience. Whenever I sit down to…

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  • Observations on building my first iOS app in Swift

    In early June I decided I wanted to learn iOS app development using Swift. I’ve made a lot of progress over the last month, building two apps that I can use on my own phone, and one app that I’m now in beta testing via TestFlight with a few friends. Over the last month I’ve…

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