Even though I was pulled into work yesterday I managed to start the rebuild of Arrgly to use SwiftUI. I do NOT recommend doing this on a real software project because rewriting an app is a sure way to lose money and possibly destroy your business. I use Arrgly as a learning application because it’s tiny and fairly easy to rework.
Yesterday I spent the day reorganizing the Xcode project. It was organized into different folders to make it easier to find things. I had it organized in groups like; Network, ViewModels, Utility, Parsing, etc. All of those lived under the main Arrgly build target and I’d like to reuse all of that code for the SwiftUI build.
Step 1
I added a new build target for the SwiftUI project, called SquishU for Squish Universal. Oh, yes, I’m renaming the app to Squish because I really hate Arrgly and that’s the best I could come up with.
Step 2
Once I had the new target I created a group called Shared and moved all of the code that could be shared between the two targets under the Shared groug and made sure the application could still build and run.
So far, so good.
Next
Now I need to sit down and start reworking the UI using nothing but SwiftUI. This is where the rubber meets the road and who knows how long it’ll take me to actully complete the work.
With any luck this will be in the App Store soon. The last version of Arrgly was pulled from the store by Apple because I didn’t rebuild it with a newer version of the iOS Frameworks. It still works fine on my phone, you just can’t download it any longer.