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Re:Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best... by paxys on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:35AM (#21014136)
The author noted that it was his fifth app, so it's likely that he had the knowledge and patterns/libraries/boilerplate etc. already in place.
Re:Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best... by nothis on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:08AM (#21014286)
I think it's perfectly fair to say "this took me an hour", but statements like this always come with history. Dude probably spent at least hundreds of hours getting proficient at programming, app design and iOS development specifically.

I don't know if that's misleading, encouraging or simply talking to a specific target group.

Re:Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best... by laurent123456 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:32AM (#21014666)
Yes this "1h", if true at all, reminds me of this story:

> It always reminds me of the story about the woman who approached Picasso in a restaurant, asked him to scribble something on a napkin, and said she would be happy to pay whatever he felt it was worth. Picasso complied and then said, “That will be $10,000.”

> “But you did that in thirty seconds,” the astonished woman replied.

> “No,” Picasso said. “It has taken me forty years to do that.”

Re:Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best... by CogitoCogito on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:54AM (#21015050)
I think it's both highly encouraging and humbling. What it means is that even though his skills could allow him to work on much fancier, complex applications, this simple 1 hour job made an enormous impact. Just think about what you do best and imagine if you could redirect the same energies somewhere else and maximize your payoff with a minimum of effort. It's not a feat that's easy to reproduce, but it is something we can all learn from.
Re:Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best... by mister_hn on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:02AM (#21014813)
sure, but for me the "All-in-all" means multiple screen resolutions support, permissions to access Camera and Storage and so on.
Re:Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best... by saagarjha on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:30AM (#21017129)
> multiple screen resolutions support

This isn’t hard if you use anything that’s not manual layout.

> permissions to access Camera and Storage and so on

A couple of Info.plist keys.