I'm actually surprised. What is more, my level of surprise rises every week. What I'm surprised with is the fact that I'm still in the game. I'm still developing the app I planned to develop. I started developing, I had several difficult weeks but I'm still progressing. This week is the week when I can celebrate finishing a first milestone - `daily goal functionality`.
Finally detail view became understandable for my beloved Tester which is actually a great sign. You know, there are two levels of understanding when developing something. First level of understanding is the one in which developer understands what he created. Second level of understanding is the one in which someone being bit outside understands what you wanted to show. Finally, after couple of iterations we reached a level in which detail screen becomes understandable the outside world which is a great thing!
Pause - Stuck - Pause. This three-week series did not sound too optimistic for the future, but finally I was able to move on this week. A task that made me freeze for some weeks was implementation of calendar view presenting completed days in a monthly view. Initially I decided not to implement it from scratch but to integrate a library that looks like matching my needs
Can you feel a bit unsatisfied even if you worked as long as you planed and actually did some progress on detail screen and also fixed some bugs across the app? Well, sure you can, if you overexpect.
Only one hour of week time actually spent on project development is not a perfect way to push the project down the line. But, like it pretty often happens, it's all in the details. Life is not only about one project - it's actually an asynchronous race of multiple threads fighting for resources and the app project is just one of the threads - important one for sure, but not the only one. So it is what it is - detail screen is still under development, but a little progress was still made.
So, this was a very educational week. I dived bit deeper into async/await way of threading in iOS and it actually not only took my breath away but also took significant part of time left for coding. Still, detail screen is under construction, it's already part of app flow. What it's lacking is presentation of data - levels, progress and completed days / strikes. This will be the subject of next week.