EricBall's Tech Projects

I've loaded the alpha code on my boss's and two coworker's phones, in addition to my son's and wife's iPods. Everyone is very impressed. (Although I think with the idea that I've created an actual iOS game rather than being impressed with the game itself.)

 

The transition to Swift 2.3 was relatively painless (although I still don't know how to create a Swift 2.3 project in XCode 8 - but if I need to I can create one in XCode 7). Renaming the project from the development name to the actual name was less than painless (the XCode "rename" only does one step of many), but I found a step-by-step YouTube video. Hooray for the Internet.

 

My current challenge is putting together the screen which will list all of the levels you have created. While XCode & UIKit have the basic framework (UITableView) - there's a lot of "write from scratch" instead of "tweak to suit". I've also had to write a bunch of sqlite interface code to handle the actual data. While there are some free toolkits out there, I wasn't able to get the nicest one to install correctly. I'm also leery of making my code dependent on someone else's (other than Apple's - which I can't avoid). And even the sqlite code isn't that bad with some help from a StackExchange post.