Topic

Indie App Development

A collection of 5 issues

Showing and hiding alternate menu items in Swift on macOS

For v2 of Rest I wanted to have menu items that show alternate titles and actions when the user holds Option. After going through a couple of answers on StackOverflow and discussions they linked to, I found out it’s now way easier than ever to achieve it. There’s

Movable windows in Swift with no title bar

I recently sorted through 300+ emails of feedback for Rest, a macOS app I built some years ago. If you spend a lot of time on the computer, the app reminds you to take regular breaks. With my newfound motivation for a v2, I got to work. Since macOS 13

1 Year in the App Store – when “Move Fast and Break Things” doesn’t work

Yesterday I read Chad Etzel’s experience with his indie games in his post titled My iOS Indie-Game Numbers. In it, Chad generously shares a lot of information about his apps and the struggles he’d had. He also links to Jared Sinclair, who had previously also shared his experience.

Writing my first Mac app

From 0 to App Store in 1 week. Mentioned on Lifehacker less than 3 weeks in. This is my experience with developing my first Mac App and publishing it in the App Store. I’ve been “trying” to get into programming for Apple products (whether OS X or iOS) for

Rest

Rest is a small OS X (10.7 required) utility that sits in your menubar and reminds you to take a break every now and then. The app’s menubar icon slowly fills up as you work and will notify you once it’s time to take a break. You