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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

10 months

📢 Meet Billboard, a Swift Package that lets you add beautiful and privacy-friendly Ads to your app. 📲 Customizable Ad overlay in SwiftUI 🎨 Use the default list of high-quality Ads or use your own source 🎁 Ideal to get an ad-free premium tier.

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So nice that this is now possible with a single line of code in SwiftUI (hold to repeat the action) It even speeds up as you hold it 😍

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1 year

I can’t believe I’m the number 4 paid app in the US (as a watchOS standalone app) 🤯😍 thank you all for the support! ♥️

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1 year

I've had some users that didn't know about the reminders feature so I just added it to the onboarding 😊 Normally I don't care if they'd like to be reminded, but for goal tracking, it's quite crucial not to forget about them.

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6 months

If Self._printChanges() was your best friend debugging #SwiftUI views. Go ahead and try the new Self._logChanges() instead! var body: some View { #if DEBUG let _ = Self._logChanges() #endif // … rest of view body … } It does the exact…

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3 months

📣✨ I’m excited to share that I’m working on a new app called Helm, which is designed to make it easier and more enjoyable for users of App Store Connect to ship apps and updates. The app is focused on providing a fast user experience and will be available for early access…

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

I’ve asked the amazing @joshmobleymusic to help me with some sound design for Gola and here’s a little sneak preview 😍 Coming very soon (tweaking the haptics as we speak)

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@hiddevdploeg

2 years

Happy Friday! Here’s a little sneak preview of my next app 👀

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@hiddevdploeg

10 months

Far from finished but here's a little sneak preview for Volo ✨ (ignore the weird simulator title bug)

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

I’m happy to announce that watchGPT is now available on the App Store 🎉 Say hello to a new little assistant right on your wrist

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

I've just submitted watchGPT for review🤞

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1 year

🚀✨ Launch day! Together with @twannl and @jordibruin we’re shipping Roadmap. This SPM package helps you integrate a customizable & voteable roadmap inside your app within minutes, so you’ll always know what your users want. Read More about Roadmap here:

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

I've just submitted watchGPT for review🤞

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@hiddevdploeg

10 months

Please don’t “solve” your UI problems by putting TipKit views everywhere 🙏

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@hiddevdploeg

6 months

This whole OpenAI story feels like a whole season of HBO’s Silicon Valley in one weekend!

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@hiddevdploeg

9 days

OMG bike routes finally made it to Apple Maps in the Netherlands! 😱🚲

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

When you’re in a house full of indie devs and you forget to take a group photo 😅✨

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

⌚️❤️ WWDC 2023 is such a big year for watchOS! Of course everyone saw the complete redesign but from a developer's point of view the biggest news is that debugging watchOS apps now works flawlessly with Xcode 15 (even backwards compatible with watchOS 9.4) Honestly, try it!…

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

🚀 It's finally here! Petey for iOS is now available on the App Store. #ChatGPT #iOS

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@hiddevdploeg

4 years

Some icons I’m working 🌈, more to come 🙌 #icons #icondesign #iOS

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

#WWDC23

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@hiddevdploeg

2 years

Today I’m launching my new app called NowPlaying 🎉 This app shows you what’s currently playing on your speakers in a beautiful way and can tell you more about the song or let’s you save it. Available on iPadOS and iOS. #music #shazamkit #apps #swift

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@hiddevdploeg

4 months

Let’s go!!

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Moved into my first office space (together with @hiddevdploeg ) today! Put some boats on the chimney to help with shipping ⛵️

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1 year

📣 This is a friendly reminder to all friends/family/followers: 🌟 If there’s an app that you really enjoy using, please give it a nice 5-star rating/review on the App Store. 🥰 It’s so important for developers to receive good reviews and means a lot to them

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

I just moved to Manchester but I’m loving my new work spot (view on a canal so still feels a tiny bit like Amsterdam)

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@hiddevdploeg

1 month

We’re ready for Let’s visionOS

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

It’s free and I’m actually thinking of open sourcing this as an SPM package for any indie that wants to add advertisements in their apps without them looking like garbage and having nasty trackers (only adding the annoying part as a way to upsell premium)

Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

11 months

📣 In my app @NowPlayingGold , I use self-hosted ads to avoid tracking and promote indie apps. Fill in the form below to feature your app as well 😄

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@hiddevdploeg

2 years

🚀I’m happy to announce that #NowPlaying 2.0 is out now on iPadOS 16, iOS 16 and watchOS 9! This might be the biggest update I have ever done on one of my apps, but here’s a small gist of what’s new in this release: Read more about this release: #music

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Do people like these also tell their old bakery that they like the new one better and won’t be visiting anymore? Cheers mate!

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Meet Gola, a fun & beautiful way to track your bigger goals throughout the year. ✨ Use one of the 4 available goal types (more coming) 🔔 Get reminders to check in on your goals 📈 See the progress you make as the year progresses

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@hiddevdploeg

9 months

🥽 visionOS time! Here are a few posts showing you an early sneak preview of @NowPlayingGold for Apple Vision Pro. (Please note that this is still a very early work in progress, and I have quite a few more fun things planned that I'm not showing just yet.) #visionOS #music …

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

📣 In my app @NowPlayingGold , I use self-hosted ads to avoid tracking and promote indie apps. Fill in the form below to feature your app as well 😄

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

1 year

It's the most requested "feature" by far, and I've been thinking about it for a while. So I'm happy to let you all know... Petey for iOS is coming. Sign up here for future beta access:

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@hiddevdploeg

10 months

⌚️Hey All! Many of you might have seen a fancy blur gradient in watchOS 10. I had to recreate it for one of my apps, so here's a package to make it available to you! It could be better, but it's easy and looks great! Enjoy!

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@hiddevdploeg

8 months

🚨 NEW APP ALERT! 🚨 I couldn't help but create a little app I wanted to exist for a while… In short, this app will help you quickly access any link/URL that you need frequently. Sign up for early TestFlight access here: Press contacts please DM me

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

The new string catalog in Xcode 15 is so much nicer for localisations! And you can even use the system translation services like this

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Petey 1.2 is now available in the App Store 🎉 🧠 GPT-4 Support (In-App Purchase Required) 💬 Multiple prompts (reply to Petey) 🎨 Change the icon for the complication And a lot more smaller improvements

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

2 years

It’s quite silly, but one thing I always add is a .hasContent extension to Array. I just prefer to read “if array.hasContent” over “if !array.isEmpty” 😅

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@hiddevdploeg

3 years

If you’re developing for watchOS in SwiftUI, you can now call .scenePadding() which will align the text with the statusbar 👏♥️ #watchOS8 #SwiftUI

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@hiddevdploeg

8 months

Early preview of interactive widgets for @NowPlayingGold

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@hiddevdploeg

2 years

OMG IT HAPPENED!?! Easy iCloud Preference syncing between watchOS and other devices

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@hiddevdploeg

2 years

Oh hello this looks new?

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1 year

Adding a lovely new alternative app icon for Gola #MadeWithSketch

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@hiddevdploeg

3 months

✨🛠️ This is all I'm showing for now.

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@hiddevdploeg

3 months

📣✨ I’m excited to share that I’m working on a new app called Helm, which is designed to make it easier and more enjoyable for users of App Store Connect to ship apps and updates. The app is focused on providing a fast user experience and will be available for early access…

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

4 years

@viticci I’have some widgets up and running for @vektapp 😊

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@hiddevdploeg

5 months

Swift really is multi-purpose, even scaffolding is part of it apparently…

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@hiddevdploeg

2 years

Not needed but a lot more fun: compass during onboarding actually points north

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@hiddevdploeg

7 months

It still baffles me how 99% of SwiftData/CoreData tutorials and resources focus on usage without iCloud. The reality is that most apps are expected to work on multiple platforms so syncing between those platforms is a requirement.

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@hiddevdploeg

8 months

One of the best behaviours you can teach yourself when developing for SwiftUI is to always use Label (with .labelStyle(.iconOnly) instead of Image when adding images. This forces you to add a description which makes it a hundred times more accessible ✨

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Petey 2.1 is here✨ - GPT-4 for iOS (and more payment options) - You can now select one of the many Alternative app icons (more to come) - Connect to Apple Music so Petey can create playlists or add songs for you. + Many more fixes and improvements

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Get ready. #Petey

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

It's the second time in a week that I'm the 3rd best-paid app in the US App Store 🤯 Thank you all for the great support, and I love hearing/reading about your experiences with Petey! I have some great updates coming very soon

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@hiddevdploeg

7 months

Ready for a Halloween party tonight!

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@hiddevdploeg

3 months

✨ NowPlaying for Apple Vision Pro lets you discover rich content about any Song, Album or Artist (kind of like IMDB but for music) SongDisplay allows you to place a window anywhere, and it will always update what music is playing from anywhere (even when you watch a film)…

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Doing final testing of Petey 2.2 now and then it's going to the App Store for review! 😄

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Petey: ChatGPT App for Apple Watch

Link to: https://apps.apple.com/app/watchgpt/id6446047813?l=en

daringfireball.net

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

My favourite kind of emails ✨

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@hiddevdploeg

2 years

I just remembered @timroesner pointing out that songs are draggable in Apple Music on iOS 16 so I figured this was the only right thing to do 🤩 #applemusic #musickit #SwiftUI

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Petey 2.0.2 is now available

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

2 years

✨🎬 How to create an App Store Preview video in 3 tweets: 1️⃣ Connect your device with a cable and Open QuickTime Player on your computer. 2️⃣ Click File → New Movie Recording 3️⃣ Select your device as a Camera [1/3]

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

11 months

⌚️✨ I’m super excited to get Volo ready for watchOS 10 and super excited to get the update on the wrist of Kite- and Wing foiling surfers later this year. Coming Fall 2023! 💨

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@hiddevdploeg

3 months

It would be amazing if App Store Connect would allow you to set a co-creator for an app so the proceeds would be split by Apple directly. This would make collaborating with others so much easier! FB13646893

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@hiddevdploeg

10 months

This is happening…

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Petey on TechCrunch today 😍

AI app Petey uses ChatGPT to make Apple Music playlists for you | TechCrunch

Petey is a free download from the App Store but requires a subscription to use its features on iPhone.

techcrunch.com

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

These are some of the nicest surf photos I’ve ever seen 🔥

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

This is taking shape 😊

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

8 months

I’m also really excited to bring you Volo's watchOS update (as seen on the watchOS 10 page for developers 😇) ⌚️Completely re-designed for watchOS 10 💧 Water temperature and weather conditions are now added to sessions 📍 Surfspot support for watchOS (+ smart stack widgets) 💨…

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Happy New Year 🍾🎇 I have opened up the Hazi beta to a bunch more people to celebrate the new year! Release should be happening early next week.

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

11 months

Remember the time where you could reach all four corners of your phone with just your thumb? That was so nice 📱🥰

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Q1 of this year could not have gone any better for me! Thank you all for the amazing support 🥰 I really needed this, and I am so grateful that my hard work is starting to pay off! I'm not taking it for granted and I can't wait to ship a whole lot more this year🚀

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

9 months

You’d almost forget that I’m also bringing Gola to iPadOS and macOS (Designed for iPad) this fall ✨😍 (Oh and charts 📈)

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@hiddevdploeg

5 months

Hey! My app Gola is part of the amazing Indie App Santa 🎉 Enjoy and happy holidays if you’re celebrating ✨

Indie App Santa

@indieappsanta

5 months

🎄0️⃣7️⃣🎄 Elevate your goal-setting game with Gola ! 🎯 Gola lets you create and track six different types of goals, with customizable widgets and reminders to keep you on track. 🚂✨ By @hiddevdploeg 👉

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3 months

🤩🤩🤩 "NowPlaying explores hidden stories behind music and enhances the listening experience"

Apple announces more than 600 new apps built for Apple Vision Pro

Apple today announced incredible new apps that will be available on Apple Vision Pro beginning Friday, February 2.

www.apple.com

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@hiddevdploeg

2 years

The new Expanded and Condensed versions of SF are not available in a #SwiftUI Font yet. So this is how I’ve done it:

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@hiddevdploeg

2 years

🚀🚀🚀 The Volo - Kitsurfing app is now available for FREE in the App Store! Please help me spread the word, and don’t hesitate to give feedback! For all the kitesurfers here that will try it out: Have fun, and I hope you will enjoy my app 😊

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

2 years

I’m sure this is why @thevividapp was made

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@hiddevdploeg

8 months

Very happy to be on this list 😍♥️⌚️

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@hiddevdploeg

9 months

Happy Friday everybody! 🎉

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@hiddevdploeg

3 years

🌟 The start of a new chapter! This week I’m finishing last bits with one of my clients to start working fulltime on my own products from next week on with my new company called @ModumHQ I’m super excited and can’t wait to tell you guys more of what I’m working on!

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@hiddevdploeg

8 months

I’m super happy to bring you the latest Gola update! 📲 iPadOS support ⌚️Re-designed for watchOS 10 📈 Interactive widgets and charts 🧠 Daily focus goals (powered by AI) ✨ hundreds of bug fixes and improvements Available later today on the App Store:

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

@DonnyWals I was planning to launch my new app tomorrow, but it got approved within an hour 😅 Meet Gola, a fun & beautiful goal tracker to help you achieve all your yearly/bigger goals and stay on track with your progress.

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Also nice way to wake up, seeing my app Gola being featured in the App Store (France) 🤩

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@hiddevdploeg

8 months

First day of #NSSpainXI today! My buddy @jordibruin did a great job again telling about just shipping your WIP

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@hiddevdploeg

10 months

Launching something new tomorrow 👀📣

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

Hello there

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@hiddevdploeg

1 month

Just got back from an amazing trip to Beijing to speak at Let’s visionOS! I had an amazing time and met SO many new friends 😊Thank you to everyone who was part of this weekend and a special thank you to @SketchK_47 for inviting me. #WelcomeToBeijing #visionOS #letsvisionos

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@hiddevdploeg

4 months

Happy new year! Gola just got a great start on the US App Store 😊

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@hiddevdploeg

7 months

It’s been quite the season! (AppDevCon’s badge even missing) I’m so grateful for the opportunity to have talked about watchOS and design at so many places this year. Two topics close to my heart. And also so happy to have met so many new and old friends at these conferences.…

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Hidde van der Ploeg

@hiddevdploeg

7 years

Makes sense, iOS 11 doesn’t ship on 1x devices anymore

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@webalys

7 years

Pixel precise fanatics will hate it… First look at iOS 11 official templates, strokes are now 1.5px We don’t care for 1x screen anymore?

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2 months

@twannl @TimGK1 @rocketsim_app One thing I always do is to never use Image(systemName:"") but instead always use Label("", systemImage: "") with the .labelStyle(.iconOnly) modifier. This forces you to describe the meaning of the icon and therefore automatically adds a accessibility label.

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9 months

Just your average day working on a watersports app 😅 (testing water temperature)

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@hiddevdploeg

10 months

Developing for watchOS 10 with @rocketsim_app is so much nicer 😍 #watchOS10

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

One of the most requested features: Text to Speech. It’s not perfect but fine for a first version. P.s. sorry for the crappy video (it’s really hard to film your own wrist) Just submitted and waiting for review 🚀

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8 months

Yes! Hopefully motivated at least a few to build more for watchOS again during my workshop! 😍⌚️ Thanks for having me @IOSDEVUK

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

🧠 Need help completing your goals? With the power of AI (GPT) you can now get advice and motivation with the press of a single button. Now available on the App Store #gpt3 #AI #goals

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7 months

🔗🎉 Introducing Diele, a handy utility app that provides quick access to frequently used links like landing pages, referral links, blog posts, social media profiles and more… The app is currently available for pre-order on the App Store and will be launched on Thursday for…

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@hiddevdploeg

11 months

Heading back home after an amazing week at #WWDC23 thank you all for making this week so much fun! It was really good seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Now let’s start building the future 🥽✨

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@hiddevdploeg

10 months

If you've started playing with visionOS and need some 3D models to test with. Apple has got your back:

Quick Look Gallery - Augmented Reality - Apple Developer

Embed Quick Look views in your apps and websites to let users see incredible detailed renderings in 3D or AR.

developer.apple.com

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

✨Petey 2.2 is here and it's one of the biggest updates yet! - History & conversation details - Streaming answers for faster responses - New UI icons by @kevandrsn + a lot more improvements and fixes

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@hiddevdploeg

1 year

Getting 1-star reviews for things that are technically not possible hurt the most 😩 I wish people released how important reviews are for indie (or any really) apps 💔

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@hiddevdploeg

10 months

🎨 The default configuration shows any of the 24+ high-quality advertisements of other indie devs that I have approved for quality purposes. If you want your app to be in here as well, please submit the form in the Read Me.

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