Experimenting with appearance for content string inside widgets

Some strange things going on with color picker, color isn’t persisted visually inside color picker modal

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Sometimes, very rarely, about once a year, I #buildinpublic an icon for an indie app that I tried on twitter

Today it's the @GSquirrelApp from @DamjanDabo

These are my 2 favorite icons. More details and process in thread 🧵

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What do you think about segmented control being used for navigation and view switching?

In lot of design systems this control should be used to change object, and for navigation we should use tabs

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New version of Backend Widget is out!

Display the data you need right on your home screen
- With single or multi-value layout
- GET/POST requests
- Configurable refresh interval

Get it: apps.apple.com/us/app/backend…

Retweets are really appreciated 😇

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Initially, I did not even imagine how this could be done, but now this feature is already working and will be added in next release

Variables inside the text field as a single element, with selection and replacement support

Not perfect but works 💪

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I decided to replace feedback button redirecting to App Store review with more user friendly menu. UI elements you could use in menu are quite limited, but I'm happy with the result.

Custom sf symbol for twitter - 🤩

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I was working on POST request support for Backend Widget and this feature led me to a lot of discoveries. Let's say this one, JSON from image isn't valid and by default server won't parse it. Could you spot why?

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Improving screen for composing widgets content. Want to make variables more user friendly, showing them directly inside text field, as single unit. Not obvious solution, but it works.

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I finally quit my job to focus on my own applications and ideas. Let's see what how far I could get.

First task - revive Backend Widget development and update it based on buyers suggestions.

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My first $10 from paid app in AppStore 🤩

Thank you all for your support 🤝

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Was preparing screenshots for AppStore, and discovered I can’t set wallpaper for #iOS16 simulator in a default way.

Found an interesting workaround for this. Details in video below.

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Polishing Backend Widget before release 👀

Waiting for review before able to invite external testers to TestFlight. Do you want to try this app?

It's not final version, and some stuff probably will change, but it is fully working.

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Finished with app icon. It looks much more alive with real icon 🤩

It’s stack of widgets, B letter on top and cloud symbol at the same time (because it’s for backend)

Have a productive week #buildinpublic people 🚀

Continue struggling with #SwiftUI 😂

This time I want to scroll to specific widget and play animation to bring user’s attention to selected item.

To make it work I need 2 optional properties and set with visible items. Plus some logic and modifiers.

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I’ve added configuration into widgets, so now it’s possible to create multiple of them and show different data in different widgets.

Time to think about app icon.

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What I like about #SwiftUI - simple things are incredibly easy and straightforward to implement.

What I dislike - something a bit more complex usually stupidly hard or even impossible to make.

Spent 2 days on renaming feature, ended up using #UIKit

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I’ve made backend widget to use with any api requests.

Now I’m able to track followers from Home screen. Please follow so I could prove it works 😂

Want to try it? Comment with 🐣

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2nd day of my 3weekAppBuild journey

Building backend widgets:
- Specify request
- Bind values to UI
- That's it 😎

Later I imagine some dashboard with similar logic. Useful to play with your own API and observe some data (MRR?)

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And this is demo for implemented User Story for date selection

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twitter.com/alex_oleynyk/s…

Next User Story Walkthrough for our #buildinpublic app

Usually, I could remember approximate day, when I was thinking about specific ideas (last day, this week). This could provide logical way of thinking about initial order in app

Design details in thread 👇

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