The Per Rewrite Diaries: Day 28
This post is part of a series about rewriting my iOS app, Per. Per is a price per unit comparison app with a bunch of neat convenience figures, but it hasn't been updated in years, so I'm rewriting it from scratch to eliminate a bunch of technical debt. Just because it's not an open-source app doesn't mean I can't share what I learn as I go!
See the rest of the series here.
Two days to go
Okay, so tomorrow's the end of the month. I'd like to get to the point where automatic unit conversion is working, but I don't think I'll get there in two hours. One way or the other, I didn't get to the point where the app functionally recreates the features of the currently shipping version of Per, but that's okay! I made a huge amount of progress and I'm really happy about that.
Today, I implemented the UI for picking the unit type when you add your first item to the product list. When the view controller sets the view's delegate, I have a didSet property observer that checks the delegate's numberOfProductItems property and, if there aren't any, inserts a UISegmentedControl where users can choose whether they want weight, volume, or dimensionless units. And it works really well!
Tomorrow, I'll set it up such that choosing a non-dimensionless option in the segmented control lets the user choose a weight or volume unit. Given that tomorrow is Saturday, I may stretch it past the usual hour to get the unit-conversion feature sorted out. There's a lot less complexity this time around for several reasons, so I don't think it'll take too long.