It’ll be 1.7 in the store so I can sync the iOS and Mac versions. 😃
How close am I? It’s hard to say to be perfectly honest. One day I’ll just declare it good enough and I’ll boot it out the door.
I want to do a bit of work to the leftmost view in the app to make it into a sidebar and shrink up each item displayed there a bit. That’ll mean some font size changes and probably change the size of the icon and tweak the middle column a bit. 🤣
Then again, maybe not? I’m just not sure I want to do it now.
I will definitely do a bit of visual cleanup. I’ve been tweaking it over time and it’s getting closer. I think of the mess I had when I first got it wired together and it’s come a long way.
It’s going to ship without Settings because I just want to get it done. No changing the number of days to keep feed items (it defaults to 30), no alternate icons, and no tip jar. My hope is to rework Settings in the iOS version and do it in SwiftUI so I can bring that work to the Mac. I do want to make it look like it belongs on the Mac, so it’ll get tweaked for sure.
I am going to start doing all work in SwiftUI moving forward since it’s “the future” of the platform and I need to take the plunge. Over time it’s only going to get better.
One of the most disappointing things to me is the number of features and infrastructure changes I’d like to make. Some are mostly hidden — like parsing the web page associated with the feed — or adding some automation support. The list goes on and on. Oh, heck, sync is a huge one at the very top of the list. Then there’s support for other feed backends… ugh! I could go on forever. 🤣
One more thing. I think I’m going to have to pull the Read Later feature from the app if I want to get it out the door anytime soon. That’s going to require considerable work to parse web pages instead of just simple feeds. I have thoughts on it and once I get around to it I think it’ll turn out just fine, but it’s quite a bit of work to do right now.
Just some random thoughts on a Friday morning.