I thought I’d follow up a bit with what I’ve been up to over the last few weeks. I have been hard at work on my newest version of my Time Clock Helper app. It is almost ready for release, I’m working on some help screens right now, but other than that it all works. It does several things that the original app didn’t do, so that is handy. It also gives the user more control over what they will see on the screen and how they interact with it.

It has been slow going since I’ve been working on learning SwiftUI at the same time. I like it for the most part, but some parts of SwiftUI are a bit unclear, or unstable. I have learned a lot, though. It makes it nice going between different devices and letting Swift take care of making sure everything is laid out in a decent manner. It sure beats the hours I used to have to spend getting constraints just right for a storyboard. Changes can now take seconds to implement that used to take minutes or hours before.

So, yeah. SwiftUI has been worth the effort to learn and it promises to get easier and more powerful in the future.