Swift development tips and experiences by Tommi Kivimäki
I like dark mode. I also noticed that the colors in Camping Finland were partly broken in iOS dark mode. It was clear that dark mode support had to be the first iOS 13 feature to build.
I often need to check if a directory exists in Linux. However the Foundation on Linux does not have the
fileExists(atPath:isDirectory:) method.
I make apps for Linux, macOS and iOS using Swift.
Swift is a fast, safe and modern language with a really nice feature set. I use it for most of my projects, because it provides a great developer experience and excellent performance. It's a perfect fit for Linux, macOS and iOS apps.
I build server side software using Swift and open source framework called Vapor. This gives me very high performance applications with a small memory footprint. It translates into very cost effetive cloud applications. I make the development, testing and deployment on Linux using Docker. Working with open source is very rewarding.
The camping holiday guide in Finland. For iPhone.
The app features camping sites, national parks, overnight stays and highlights the most important service at the sites. It calculates travel time and distance estimates and provides turn-by-turn navigation.
Camping Finland includes all the motorhome and caravan shops and most of the service shops.
Development and marketing time 240 hours. Total cost of development and distribution 24 100 EUR.
Latest messaging backend for web and mobile apps.
Build using server side Swift and Vapor framework. Runs on Ubuntu inside a Docker container. Deployed to various cloud platforms depending on the client requirements.
Development and maintenance time 384 hours. Total cost of development and distribution 38 400 EUR.
Easy way to watch available disk space. Available shows free disk space in the menubar. You can select a hard disk and set an alarm limit.
If the free disk space decreases below the set limit the app displays a notification and the menubar icon turns red.
Supports light and dark modes.
Development time 11 hours. Total cost of development 1100 EUR.
Quick and easy way to look inside Final Cut Pro X libraries. Libi shows you all the events inside a library with some detailed information like when the library was last modified or when an event was last edited.
Size on disk shows which libraries and events eat most of your disk space and a visual Render Files Ratio display tells how much of the event size is allocated by generated render files.
Development time 116 hours. Total cost of development 11 600 EUR.
Bright colors can be distracting, especially when consuming web content in the dark. Faded brings 5 filters to tone down a web page.
Filters:
Development time 29 hours. Total cost of development 2 900 EUR.