I’ve been busy since I utterly rewrote SpeakerClock in SwiftUI. That was model 1.2.0.
The App Retailer offers an idea referred to as Common Buy, which is the place buying an app on one system additionally unlocks it on all different supported platforms. Within the earlier model I added a Mac model. This replace now provides the AppleTV model. Nonetheless a minor replace, as a result of the performance is an identical, but all three variations profit from enhancements.
As on the opposite platforms I wished to maintain the UI an identical, whereas optimising for the display screen dimensions at hand. The principle problem was that opposite to the direct manipulation on the opposite platforms (with finger or mouse pointer) you’re controlling deal with Apple TV with the distant.
So my spherical LED buttons have a further white circle if they’re in focus. That didn’t look good for the LED digits nonetheless. So there I used the LED digits shadow to offer it a white glow. Whereas the timer is thus focussed you may modify it by swiping horizontally in your Apple TV distant.
I wished to keep away from having the white glow being energetic whereas the timer is operating, it might quickly be annoying to the person. So if you happen to begin the timer through tapping on the distant, I place focus again on the at the moment energetic preset.
The second massive change for the Apple TV involved the person information which is proven through the button with the query mark. Since there isn’t a direct manipulation of a scroll view I experimented with having the person paragraphs be focusable. However that didn’t work out properly.
In the long run I discarded the ScrollView and as a substitute put the person person information sections on separate tabs. Since there was a number of empty area across the textual content, I added some eye sweet. A few of which is definitely interactive.
Lastly, the hidden bonus characteristic which presumably solely builders would care about considerations the a number of layers of the app icon. The icons are all generated with unique reside person interface parts from the app. The non-TV icons had been fairly easy to do like that. On TV nonetheless an app icon has a number of layers that are proven three-dimensionally floating in an superior parallax impact.
To attain this for SpeakerClock I divided the a number of layers such that you’ve got the inactive LED bars on the again, the energetic LED parts within the center and the visitors mild within the entrance.
Subsequent up I’ll be trying right into a Watch app. Though there it’d make sense to attend for the iOS 15 characteristic the place you may proceed to replace the display screen each second. Additionally you need to be capable to use the watch as distant management for SpeakerClock operating on some other platforms.
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