Category: App Development
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App Development: Day 6
It’s been a short but gratifying day here. Got some good feedback from members of the community and am looking forward to finishing the functionality of the app in the coming days. But the interface is done, or very nearly done (pending some final decisions about how one should remind oneself to pray). With any…
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App Development: Day 5
Yesterday things shifted a bit. I can feel my priorities changing as my time here draws to an end. I’m out of free-ranging learning mode (building skills for future app development) and into a place where I hope to have a glossy prototype to show the folks here before I leave, to see if they’re…
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App development: Day 4
I continue to break what might be the most important rule in this place. Let me explain. You see, what we’re interested in, eventually, in the CMT is a rule of life app (more on why an app might be an appropriate companion to a rule of life in another post). So it seemed like…
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App Development: Day 3
Yesterday was a harder day. The programming details were less fun, more picky. A small victory was that I got the toy app I’ve been working on loaded onto my iPhone for the first time. That’s a cool feeling. On the other hand, the program crashed for the first time yesterday as well (map views…
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App Development: Day 2
Day 2 went (or at least ended) well enough that I feel like I can let the cat out of the bag and start making these posts public. On the technical front: I was up late, but I made a lot of progress learning Xcode, the development environment Apple provides for writing iOS apps. What’s so…
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App Development: Day 1
It feels good to be working on a spirituality app in the prayerful and purposeful confines of Richmond Hill. This convent-turned-ecumenical-community with a continuing vocation to pray for and work in the city is one of those gems representing the very best of what the church can be. The community Eucharist tonight doubled as a…