Author name: VK5AYL

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Somewhere along the way, I decided to implement push notifications (aka remote notifications). These are the notifications you receive when an app is in the background or not open.  They are not the same as PnP’s in-app notifications, these only work when the app is in the foreground. I approached Allen VK3ARH to see if

Version 2 fires Spot notifications when the app is open.  These will display detail about the Spot at the top of the screen, ie Activator’s callsign, site, frequency and mode.  For WWFF, you get the Kookaburra sound, for SOTA you get the goat sound, this is the standard!  You can also get the default notification sound by changing

Having spent a lot of time as a hunter/chaser, I decided to make things easier for myself while testing the app.  The Spots & Alerts screens have data about the Activator, I wanted to log data about the Activator that I had communicated with.  I decided to make use of this data by capturing the information to

For many years, I’ve been interested in what I could use collected data for.  This was way beyond the days of “big data” and data science which are all the flavour now.  I don’t agree with the way that some multi-conglomerates are using data now.  Mapping data is of great interest to me because of the power of visualising

Every screen in ParksnPeaks has been touched to include new features and Find Sites (formerly Nearest Sites) is no different, in fact there has been a lot of work in here. I’ve included a button for Search Sites on this screen, so now you can search for sites to plan your activation/s without going into

I use SQLite as the database on the iPhone/iPad.  Its a really good database to work with and has been around for a very long time.  I love SQL and all data retrieval, updates and inserts are done in SQL. The screen shot shows the counts for all logged data, this uses 2 SQL statements, one for the

Before designing the data inputs, I had to know what the outputs were. This involved many days of searching the internet, then reading specifications for ADIF and CSV format for both SOTA and WWFF.  Both Awards had variations when it came to CSV files and the ADIF process was different as well.  You can read more about Exports

The first thing I needed to do was tidy up the storyboard which is used to create the screens in an app.  The storyboard is a visual and interactive screen designer within Xcode, the Apple development environment for apps.  Each screen (also called scene) connects to another, mostly via navigation controllers which give the scene its navigation

Updated.. I started learning Swift version 1 back in the dark ages, 2014-ish.  We are now up to version 5 and version 6 is due soon.  Apple still has its older language – Objective C but Swift is much easier to learn. Swift is a modern language with a simpler syntax, more like C# and although