iOS Development

• October 22, 2026Ready Time 3.13: Done Early, Running Late
• October 16, 2026 NetNewsWire on how they added iPhone Duo support: How we did it: we didn’t do any work at all. We built the app using Xcode 27.1 and the default iOS SDK that comes with it, and that’s it. […] There is a good list of reasons to use standard controls in the standard ways, and near the top of that list is to be ready for these kinds of days, so we’re not bogged down for a month or more trying to adapt to big changes like this. Yep. Those of us who’ve suffered through Apple’s UI and platform transitions over the years have learned how painful it can be if you go your own way too much. Stick to what Apple’s trying to do, and you’ll be in better shape for the next shift. I learned this the hard way with Little Memory, but I’m so glad that I finally got it rewritten with my learnings, so my own iPhone Duo support wasn’t too difficult. There were some UX considerations for the outer vs inner screen layouts to optimize the experience, but they weren’t strictly necessary.
• October 15, 2026Ready Time 3.12: Siri
• October 15, 2026 This! Finally, a way to delete Derived Data directly from Xcode! Not sure when this showed up, but it’s in my Xcode 27.1. No more hunting for the path and manually deleting it.
• October 14, 2026Coinbase is going mobile native too
• October 14, 2026Little Memory 2.2: iPad and iPhone Duo
• October 13, 2026For App Intents and Purposes
• October 13, 2026 Found another Little Memory 2.0/2.1 bug: if you don’t have a memory for a day, you get a random memory pushes instead. That shouldn’t be happening. Fix in 2.2.
• October 12, 2026Ready Time 3.11: iPhone Duo and iPad
• October 7, 2026Little Memory 2.1: Fixes from 2.0 Feedback
• October 3, 2026 There’s a visual bug with Little Memory on iOS 27 in the main diary view. The paging indicators have a different background than the top toolbar. Fix will come in 2.1. Working on bugs that have come in from 2.0 too. Thanks to everyone who’s given me feedback and bug reports.
• October 2, 2026Ready Time 3.9: Live Activities
• September 29, 2026Ready Time 3.8: Weekdays and Two New Themes
• September 29, 2026 Brent Simmons: The stock Mac UI is designed by Apple, the best designers in the world, and do you really think you can do better? Really? The app world is full of people who think they’re better and they’re really, really, really not. This is the same way I feel whenever I see a Porsche with a giant after-market spoiler on it. Do folks really think they can do better than Porsche? He’s talking about Mac apps here, and I feel similarly about iOS apps.
• September 22, 2026Little Memory 2.0: Moving 15 years of memories off my servers
• September 18, 2026 I, too, have been concerned about the vertical tab bar on the iPhone Duo not having space for labels. But looks like tap and hold reveals them. Nice solution.
• September 15, 2026Action Runner iOS Architecture
• September 14, 2026Shopify is moving from React Native to native Swift/Kotlin
• September 6, 2026Rewarding the user for wondering and trying
• September 4, 2026Ready Time 3.6: Routines and App Clips
• August 25, 2026 Revisiting using Cursor for trying out more non-Claude agents, which I haven’t done too much of recently. I’ve generally been running Claude Code on my laptop, especially for iOS/Xcode projects, but doing a bit more with cloud agents with my web projects.
• August 20, 2026Debugging Little Memory 2.0 Diary View Scrolling
• August 14, 2026iOS Dev Weekly Issue 763 is a game changer
• July 23, 20260xdead10cc
• June 1, 2026Ready Time's on TinyLaunch
• May 21, 2026Ready Time 3.3: Travel Time
• April 28, 2026Next Chapter of Little Memory
• April 28, 2026Ready Time 3.2: Shared Plans and Daily Repeating Plans
• April 20, 2026Technology is not enough
• April 15, 2026Moving along on Ready Time relaunch
• April 14, 2026It's like gonna have like this tab
• April 7, 2026Ready Time
• March 30, 2026Getting Ready for Ready Time
• January 14, 2026Time Lock, New Premium Feature
• April 24, 2023Development login credentials in Xcode
• November 3, 2022Little Countdown 2.0
• October 4, 2022iOS Developer Resources
• September 20, 2022SwiftUI: Link phone numbers, emails, URLs in Text without Markdown
• June 7, 2022CoreData: All that is left to us is honor
• April 30, 2021Beginnings: Birth of Little Memory
• December 5, 2020iPhone Upgrade Program vs Buying, Trade In
• May 29, 2020Swift: Immutable Struct Singleton Initialization
• May 28, 2020Fastlane: Downloading AppStore Metadata
• May 20, 2020Swift: Converting String to Date
• May 19, 2020Horizontal Stack Content Hugging
• May 16, 2020Adding an Instructional Overlay for first time users to your app in iOS
• September 12, 2019Little Countdown iOS app adds alerts for upcoming flights
• June 6, 2019Bitrise: Mobile CI Service
• June 2, 2019Automated Beta/Internal Change Notes with Fastlane
• March 25, 2019Little Countdown app integrates with iOS Calendar
• January 7, 2019Little Countdown iOS app adds support for Siri Shortcuts
• December 10, 2018Introducing the Little Countdown iOS app: helping travelers get to the gate on time