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Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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Post by jkmcf » Mon, Sep 07, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

fmos wrote: post #60

soohyunbae wrote: post #59

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Claude can do it within hours? give your iOS code, and ask "hey, make an Android app for this iOS app". in 2026, you don't need an Android engineer, but $100 for Claude Code.

The app is made in Swift and relies heavily on Watch Connectivity and AlarmKit (among others when you take the widgets and Live Activity into account, which may be omitted). I assume, none of those maps obviously to Android SDKs. And in my experience, Claude's first results are fine for a preview, but less so for a reliable product. You can get there, but only if you can follow or even guide the engineering and make…

Theoretically, Apple says you can now (or will be able to) write Android apps in Swift.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ogjkq7/developers_c...

Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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Post by fmos » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 4:03 AM UTC

ilumanty wrote: post #53

fmos wrote: post #33

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Thanks! I hear you. Not in love with those particular colors either. I need (a) 5 light + 5 dark colors (b) that are pairwise discernible when next to each other and (c) don't get confused immediately with Apple's Activity rings. That last (c) unfortunately rules out many popular open/free color schemes from charting libraries I know. I'm no expert on colors (nor typography), so will gladly take input from anyone mor…

I’d just use the system color palette. I would be surprised if users confuse your design with Activity. The “Live” label looks like a Claudism. For the rest, you should be fine when you use the semantic fonts + size presets provided by Apple. They also set decent values for tracking depending on size and will react to global a11y size settings.

Fonts and scaling are fixed with 1.2 released now. Live badge is gone too. I didn’t touch the colours for now.

Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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Post by fmos » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 4:08 AM UTC

jkmcf wrote: post #71

fmos wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The app is made in Swift and relies heavily on Watch Connectivity and AlarmKit (among others when you take the widgets and Live Activity into account, which may be omitted). I assume, none of those maps obviously to Android SDKs. And in my experience, Claude's first results are fine for a preview, but less so for a reliable product. You can get there, but only if you can follow or even guide the engineering and make…

Theoretically, Apple says you can now (or will be able to) write Android apps in Swift. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ogjkq7/developers_c...

That sounds interesting and worth a look. Although my experience with such cross platform bindings is that they tend to be leaky especially around system-dependent things like alarms and connectivity. But I’ll give it a try when I have a few hours to spend.

Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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Post by fmos » Tue, Sep 08, 2026, 4:15 AM UTC

OP here. I just released version 1.2 which is based on the feedback in this thread. It brings better scaling of fonts and the chart, which leads to better support for smaller devices. Also included are fixes to the widget and live activity renderings (one of which is a workaround of a confirmed iOS bug). Finally, the redundant “live” pill is dropped. Enjoy the update!