- Evan Coleman On Twitter: Anyone Else Excited For Macbook Pro
- Evan Coleman On Twitter: Anyone Else Excited For Machines
Ten years ago, on June 10 2008 Apple started the AppStore. With only a few hundred apps in the beginning it’s amazing to see to what it has grown today. Fantastic indie careers have been kicked off thanks to the AppStore. Many new startups are only successful because of the power of the AppStore. On this historical day, I decided to tell my personal AppStore story. This is about how I started to develop apps with: And some other developers started to share their stories as well. Amazing, interesting, hilarious, personal, funny things. I hope that this shows everyone else that there are no magic skills required to create impressing apps.
And that releasing an imperfect app in the beginning is not embarrassing at all. I didn't understand retain/release for years after starting Cocoa development; I was a terrible dev and knew little of the computer science. I still made really cool things — the best way to learn is by doing — Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) The first version of had all of its code in the app delegate. — Evan Coleman (@edc1591) The first iOS app I published had almost all of its code in the app delegate and I spent a very long time figuring out how to implement UITextFieldDelegate — Guilherme Rambo (@inside) When I first started OS X development, I didn’t understand that I could create multiple instances of the same view, so I just created one in IB and called `copy` on it a bunch of times. — Evan Coleman (@edc1591) When I created, it was my first time actually learning Swift and I didn't know the difference between a scrollView and a collectionView.
I'm still far from knowledgeable, but I love what I do. — Tyler Phillips (@thetylerjp) When the App Store launched 10 years ago, I didn’t know how to program. This year I created my own programming language and IDE. It’s amazing what you can learn on the internet these days! — Louis D'hauwe (@LouisDhauwe) I started iOS development at age 13 with an app called “iDelay Messages” It would take a message and then you could set a date to be reminded to send it later. It was buggy as hell and almost all of my code was written in the View Controller, but here I am as a junior CS major. — Keeton Feavel (@Auxel) 3 years ago, I started programming.
I plan on finally releasing an app this summer. I’d suggest you don’t wait that long, but I learned a lot.
Evan Coleman On Twitter: Anyone Else Excited For Macbook Pro
Never be satisfied with your work. A developers job is never done unless they give up, don’t.
— Devecstatic (@Devecstatic) I started coding using Objective-C and AppKit 7 years ago. One Mac App Store feature, some interesting client projects through my own company and two scholarships later I am beyond what I thought was ever possible for me. Stick to what you love to do, not where the money is ☺️ — Max Langer (@mangerlahn) When the App Store launched 10 years ago, I didn't know what programming was. Barely had access to a computer.
Evan Coleman On Twitter: Anyone Else Excited For Machines
10 years later, I've published 2 apps on the App Store, and worked at a company that created products I used as a child. Look how time flies — Andy Liang (@meteochu) In the first iOS app I created, I made network requests in view controllers and defined constants in AppDelegate. I barely understood protocols and delegation pattern. — behdad (@behdadk) When I wrote my first app I didn't understand threading at all.
I just found CADisplayLink and wrote a game using a whole bunch of UIImageViews. — Joseph ☂ Slinker (@theslinker) My first iOS app happened entirely in the app delegate, was just one giant switch case break statement, and somehow managed to implement a UI PickerView — Michael Kohler (@MEKohler) On top of that, some users recognized iRedstone (someone they know retweeted me). What a great coincidence at the 10th anniversary of the AppStore!
Wow, what a coincidence that I find you here! Someone I follow retweeted your story, and I read iRedstone and was like 'don't I know that app?'
I downloaded it years ago, and I even remember your name 😀 Glad to hear what iRedstone made possible for you! — Jan (@D3m3r1on) Dude, I remember using iRedstone.
I still have it in my purchases. Like you, I started programming (for real) with iOS apps and made most of the same mistakes. Almost all of my code was in the ViewControllers. Now I’m a Junior in college for CS! — Keeton Feavel (@Auxel) You have an app on the store as well?
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