Greg

Building Android/iOS apps for fun
🤖 - on Google Play (GoldenRaccon alias)
🍎 - funny iOS (SwiftUI) articles

[Greg @the_greg_potter]

X communities comes to and end soon 🥲
Our life on Earth is also finite ⏱️

Remember it.
Make each day count!

Last post before X communities disappear 🫠

New grid widget for "Memento Mori: Stoic Calendar" 📆
(soon published)

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These 3 colors are not the same

Colors on iOS might be a bit confusing.
Especially since they change based on light/dark mode too

Here's a helpful list with:
- all colors
- all variations (light/dark modes)
- iOS + macOS colors (UIKit + AppKit)

https://t.co/JN4Z8w2aUK

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Learn 2 out of the following 3:

- set boundaries 👫
- use DatePicker 📆
- divide colonized countries 🌍

https://t.co/BOLpyhCFeM

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@Dnd_Franky Perfect 👌

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Made a design for Google Play screenshots in Figma.

Play Store screenshot tips (for devs without design experience, like me lol).

1. Look at successful app screenshots (eg. Google's apps, Spotify, Instagram).
2. Copy layout (most big apps are very simple)

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@Dnd_Franky It's classic 1080 x 1920.

The image shows all screenshots "merged" into one

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@fadeone_x It's true. I'm an Android user and I don't like to pay😆

Since I don't have a personal Mac I can't publish to the App Store so I'll stay on Play Store.

But this app isn't to make money anyway, so I don't worry about it too much

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Anyone building Android apps knows this feeling! 🤩

With feedback from multiple users, finally released the 7th update for my app.

It's come a long way 🥹

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"Make love to the canvas" - Bob Ross

How you can choose a color in iOS apps 🌈🦄

+ Bonus tip (at the end):
how to stay mentally sane as a developer

https://t.co/AGHfl5tgUH

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This code is easy.
3 buttons, in this order:

1. "No Role"
2. "Cancel"
3. "Destructive"

Wrong!

SwiftUI button roles affect more than you might think (not only order).

Also: check out why macOS is politically correct compared to SwiftUI🕵️

https://t.co/1rUWUXih53

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Finally done with new card animation.

It was quite a learning curve to implement it in Android Compose, but it was worth it 😄

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Working on another feature requested by a user.

It's quite a satisfaction to add smooth animations to an app 🤭

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@xSash_ Which part?

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Popular opinion: buttons without style look boring

So here's how to style them in SwiftUI
And unexpected behaviors on iOS/macOS

Taylor Swift also participated in writing this article (an expert in personal style, unlike me)

https://t.co/IfBwzSEaEU

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Drawing by hand ideas for a logo.
Not what I expected from building apps😂

In school I hated drawing (bc i was pretty bad, still am bad lol)
But now I enjoy it (coming up with ideas) 😅

Life's irony🤡

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Learn about the most basic (and most important) iOS component:
The Button

Try to find Shrek in the article 😉

Buttons in SwiftUI (iOS and macOS)
https://t.co/dTDhTikSQF

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Skill that indie-hackers need

What others think:
- coding
- marketing

What builders actually need:
- coding
- marketing
- UI/UX design (photoshop, Figma)
- QA (testing)
- legal research (regulations, app store rules)
- ASO/SEO
- prompting (latest addition)

Extra: lots of soft-skills (time management, prioritization, networking, finding motivation, staying consistent, ...)

I'm currently learning vector graphics (for logo design, cause AI is pretty shitty at that).

Which skill are you learning lately?

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Most dev blogs are pretty plain.

So I made one that's funnier, playful (with memes and such).
It makes learning more entertaining (especially for Gen Z 😆)

Worst case: it's cringe (but that's also part of its goal) https://t.co/TKDTK954NY

First post (tomorrow) sneak-peek:
"Learn how to open the door of your Tesla car. (Or lose your savings in the crypto market)."

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Control music with gestures 🤟

Excited to work on something new 😄

But Gemini and Claude struggled with the Camera API, so I had to step in 😆

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@adefemi_a30197 Seems pretty cool that it's automated. Especially for quick fixes

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1. User writes about a bug
2. Fix it in 5 minutes
3. Submit to Play Store
4. Bam! 20 minutes later it's live (thanks to Play Store's fast review process)

Do they even review the apps or how does it get approved so fast? 😅