Author name: VK5AYL

Version 1 was uploaded to the app store on the 14th May 2017 but needed to be reviewed by Apple.  It was edge of the seat stuff. Three days later, the app has finally been approved by Apple and is now on the App Store for freedownload. You’ll find the User Guide available for download on the

Well version 1 is complete and its now ready for the App store. I’ve spent a lot of time putting colour into the app to make it an enjoyable experience for users. Below are many of the screens in version 1. Search for sites

This was the last screen worked on.  Initially, it had been part of the site search but I moved it out of there as it was getting messy because of the Award and State buttons, plus it is more informational. The latitude and longitude shown at the bottom of the screen is derived from the

I have arrived!!  I’m can now call myself an IOS Developer. App developers have to pay a yearly subscription to join the Apple Developer program. I am now allowed to upload apps to the app store.  Wow, I’ve come a long way since my first app below. Here it is, the most widely written app

This has to be my favourite screen and other than the Spots List, probably took the longest to develop.  You will find this screen as a pick list when adding Spots and Alerts.                   Throughout my career I’ve always loved programming and dealing with data.  I love

The Add New Alert screen is now taking shape. It is different to the Spots equivalent in that it requires either UTC date/time or part of a day. I decided to use a segmented control, its a series of buttons joined at the hip.  You give them labels or even pictures and handle them in

The Spots list was a mountain to climb but it paved the way for the Alerts list, I just had to copy the data transfer code from the Spots screen and change the code to be Alert specific.   Again I used my web server, created an Alerts table in MySQL and wrote some new PHP

The next stage was to create a spots entry screen for collecting a spot from the user and then saving it to the web server.  Allen was planning on making his web server receive data in JSON or XML format.  I designed the screen using a different method called a Stack View.  Basically, I could

When I first started working on ParksnPeaks, the web server was producing data in XML.  I had some code that I found on the internet, massaged it to suit and that gave me the data in a “sort of usable” form.  Okay, it wasn’t that usable!  I could display it as a line of text