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Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Post by DannoHung »

jeffd wrote: post #36
oellegaard wrote: post #30

Would be great if commute could be either public transport or by bike - I don't have a car, which in Denmark isn't very uncommon for city people. Otherwise great app - now I just need a way for it to be on my TV when i eat breakfast :D

I live in a city too and don't have a car. I plan on adding public transit support soon, because I really want it too.

Walking estimates too? Actually... I mean, I know how long it takes me to walk to work, but it'd be good to just be able to punch a number in. (Maybe automatically multiply by 1.1 or 1.2 when it's raining).

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

samweinberg wrote: post #41
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

Nice app! Can't wait for the iPhone version :) It looks like you're using Paperfold ( https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/paperfold ). Mind adding it to the list of apps that use it on Cocoa Controls? Also, I'd love to know if you use any other OSS components. I'm always looking for apps to highlight as my 'app of the week'.

You run Cocoa Controls? Thanks for creating such a great resource!

I do! Glad you like it :)

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

jeffd wrote: post #47
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #40

"Requires iOS 6.0 or later" - one of my least favourite phrases. I'm curious - what specific features require iOS 6? Why is so much iOS software backwards-incompatible?

The Reminders and Events panels both use EventKit which only added reminders support in iOS 6. Also the high adoption rate of iOS 6 makes it not worth while to support older versions. I've spent many hours on other applications, mostly Mac, where the time spent making something backwards compatible was never really worth it. Example: I worked on getting fancy animations in an app that had to support Panther, which di…

Thanks for the answer - I fully appreciate what you say. I'm just a bitter iPad1 owner whose £400 toy became obsolete barely a year after purchase. It's a shame there isn't a native equivalent of progressive enhancement.

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Post by jeffd »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #53
jeffd wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Reminders and Events panels both use EventKit which only added reminders support in iOS 6. Also the high adoption rate of iOS 6 makes it not worth while to support older versions. I've spent many hours on other applications, mostly Mac, where the time spent making something backwards compatible was never really worth it. Example: I worked on getting fancy animations in an app that had to support Panther, which di…

Thanks for the answer - I fully appreciate what you say. I'm just a bitter iPad1 owner whose £400 toy became obsolete barely a year after purchase. It's a shame there isn't a native equivalent of progressive enhancement.

I feel your pain, I too have an iPad 1 that I'd like to use more things on, like dashboards. :-P

I guess this is just what we get when we buy Apple products. They are damn good at making last year's awesome product look obsolete the next year.

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Post by rcsorensen »

wj wrote: post #43

I was just discussing personal dashboards last Friday specifically I was looking for something to run on a Pi. Probably a web dashboard. I didn't really find anything (Kipfolio seems to be the business one) so I ended up registerding some domains. I was thinking of exploring it as my Startup Engineering project. Best of luck with Morning!

I had some fantastic luck setting up custom dashboards with Dashing from Shopify.

http://shopify.github.io/dashing/

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Post by dpcx »

jeffd wrote: post #21
shade wrote: post #17

I really like the idea and I will be checking this out, particularly since I have a long-ish commute to the office. I will say, though, that I think for the way my morning routine tends to go, it would be more useful to me as a Mac app. I almost always look at my MBP in the mornings before leaving for work, but rarely make a point of checking my iPad, so I could see this being really useful for me as a full-screen Ma…

I've thought about a Mac app version of it, just haven't had the time to mock it up and prototype it. I can you keep you posted on that front, but the next thing on the list is iPhone support.

I'd be interested in a Mac app as well. I just signed up for the iPhone mailing list :)

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Post by buza »

jeffd wrote: post #11
ZanderEarth32 wrote: post #9

Love the look. Without having a chance to download it yet, how does the to-do list part work? Is it pulling a to-do list from one of my current to-do list apps, or do I need to create another one for this? Any future chance for support for a Twitter feed or possibly an RSS feed? Am I the only one that wished this is what the iOS 7 lock screen looks like?

The to-do part is pulling them in from iOS' built in Reminders app. That means you don't have to have yet another to-do app and it syncs via iCloud to your Mac and other devices. The same goes for the events/calendar panel. They are both using Apple's EventKit API. The news panel supports RSS feeds and Twitter is a possible option in the future, I'll look into doing it.

It would be great if the ycombinator RSS feed worked. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Re: Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

conradev wrote: post #44
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #40

"Requires iOS 6.0 or later" - one of my least favourite phrases. I'm curious - what specific features require iOS 6? Why is so much iOS software backwards-incompatible?

Developers writing new apps see two things: - High adoption rate of iOS6 - Cool iOS6 APIs (Autolayout, UIKit attributed text, indexed subscripting, etc) and they decide to write for iOS6 only. They could support iOS 5, but the work is not worth the reward with the adoption rate of iOS6 being as high as it is. For developers with existing customers, it is a different story.

Even if you're not explicitly taking advantage of new platform, supporting iOS 5 increases your testing burden. For an indie dev (or a pair of developers), this can be a significant burden for minimal payoff, given how few users are on older versions of iOS.
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