And yes, it broke all my code but fortunately, it was able to convert from Swift 2 to 3 automatically, how cool is that! Apart from the odd crash that closed down Xcode and not being able to shut down the simulator at all (had to force quit), so far so good. I’m really enjoying
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Microsoft Office on my old Mac was abysmal, slow as a dog, mind you my old Mac only had 4GB of memory. My old PC was also running slow, it had also never got over a Trojan and it was time to upgrade. So I had to decide if I wanted a Mac or a
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When developing for the iPhone (or any phone), screen space is very limited and the design is very important. The iPhone series has so many phone sizes. Orientation is another consideration, if the user turns the phone sideways what will the app look like. Developing for the different sizes and orientation is a minefield in
In June 2015, my day job consumed all my time when the US Company I worked for changed their name, their products and all the back room software that I had worked on over the last 13 years. It required 60 hours or more a week including weekends to change the software for Australia, NZ, Europe,
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I started development of the app using Swift 1 in late 2014 and early 2015. Within a few weeks, I started to think I’d like to hide under a rock, never to be seen again. Swift was so different to Delphi and I was struggling to understand how to design and layout the app, especially
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Then I started learning Objective C, the main Apple language at the time. It is definitely not for the feint hearted. I started with a test app with a screen or two but after a couple of months, I lost interest. The idea of managing memory again was not for me, life is too short,
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First attempts 2013 I started playing with iPhone development late in 2013 when the latest version of Delphi (Pascal) was supposedly able to produce an iPhone app. I have used Delphi since version 1, so I was quite comfortable with it as a programming language. However, using it for iPhone development involved an Apple Mac
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