Daniel and Manton follow up the claim from previous episode that crosswords are “mostly an English-language thing.” Daniel shares more about his experience implementing a custom calendar picker for macOS, and how the AppKit version he emulated differs from Apple’s separate SwiftUI implementation. Manton talks about his positive experience using using React Native, and how SwiftUI would be a tough sell given his desire to target Android. Finally, they speculate briefly about whether WWDC will continue being virtual-only this year, and in years to come.
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Links:
- Black Ink – Daniel’s crossword app for the Mac.
- Kreuzworträtsel – Example of a German-language crossword courtesy of Jan Barnholt.
- Wordle – The online word-guessing game.
- New York Times Crossword – The quintessential American crossword.
- 500K Subscribers – 2019 article from the NY Times boasting of their crossword subscriber base.
- Same Code, Different Targets – Daniel’s Twitter post highlighting the differences in calendar UI from the same SwiftUI code base.
- React Native – Cross-platform framework for mobile development.
- Epilogue on GitHub – Manton’s open source book-tracking app.
- Ben Johnson – Contributor to the Epilogue open source project.
