This summer I blew away the site I had initially set up last year, because frankly I didn’t have use for a blog. But now it’s back, and better than ever pretty much the same exact set up it was before, except now I have stuff to post about. Over the last week, now that I have reliable access to a Mac (that isn’t from 2001), I’ve had access to Xcode, so I’ve been able to truly start learning develop iOS apps for the first time, something I’ve wanted to do for years.
My first app, Blue Calculator+, is nothing special, but it serves two purposes: it helped me start learning to use the Xcode environment and the Swift programming language, and it’s also a calculator app I wanted on my phone because it always, always bugged me that the native iOS calculator has so much functionality that you have to rotate the device to access. Not to mention that it’s not even on iPads, unless that changed in the last couple years.
It’s definitely been a learning experience, and I’m sure I’ll release updates as I learn more about developing for iOS, but I think the app in its current state is a pretty usable little tool, with a design that isn’t hideous, and hey, I’m going to release it ad-free, for free, so maybe give a shot when it becomes available.
This should do well enough for my first blog post, so that’s all for now. Stay tuned for more updates about Blue Calc+ soon!
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