Land Nav app icon Land Nav Developer Log

Every wonder what a dev goes through when building an app? Here is a raw dump of some of the notes I keep while building Land Nav.

I’m glad I didn’t know how much effort it was going to take before I started because I would have been too afraid to start.

A lot of the work was caused by figuring out how it should work and learning state management in Swift UI. I think I rebuilt the app 3 times before finally understanding how to efficiently architect a large scale SwiftUI app and come up with a design that I was happy with.

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Long break to see what the market would do for the app. Unfortunately it didn’t go viral and make me 10s of thousands (or even thousands). The feedback I recived was positive so I think I’m the right track.

I worked on and off on the next major features for search, a ruler, and routes and regions.

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One year anniversay of devlopment. Should be finished any day now… 😵‍💫

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Dec 6-14: ??? Track recording research? Was feeling burnt out and disillusioned and needed a break.

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Nov 27, 28, 30, Dec 1: Needed a break so played a bunch of Civ5 and chilled

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During this time I wasn’t keeping accurate notes because I thought the app was only going to take “a couple of months, I mean how hard could it be?”

Feb 10, 2022


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