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Show HN: I open-sourced my iPhone app side project

52 points by dvingo 12y ago

dvingo 12y ago
I stopped doing iOS for a bit, so figured I might as well open this up. Hope someone finds it useful.
- ahmett 12y ago
  What does it do? It didn't seem practical to me from screenshots, does it somehow understand you're running or doing commute from location/sensors?
  - dvingo 12y ago
    It's just a simple time tracker: you press start, then stop. You can group things by activity (like timing your commute everyday). There is a "trip" type which will also take your current GPS coordinates and your end coordinates to give you a as-the-crow-flies line on a map. An obvious next feature would be to take your coordinates on a recurring interval to give you a better view of where you traveled.
- josephlord 12y ago
  Cool. You might need to indicate that fonts are OFL not MIT licensed though.
  - dvingo 12y ago
    Thanks, I updated to reflect that.
- hamiltonkibbe 12y ago
  Rad app, Dan
  - dvingo 12y ago
    Thanks Hamilton, hope you're doing well.
dublinben 12y ago
In all sincerity, how useful is an open source iOS app? Don't you still need to pay their $100/year fee to distribute it? Wouldn't you have to jailbreak your phone just to install this yourself?
- gregbarbosa 12y ago
  Open source iOS apps are extremely helpful to anyone learning iOS development. There are intricacies to learn, and not everywhere teaches it all. Looking at someone else's completed iOS source code you can learn and understand UI/UX design patterns, the MVC process of creating iOS apps, and so much more. I recently took a course in college for iOS development, and because of open-source code I was able to ace the class and get picked-up for potential funding on the class project. Yes you need to pay Apple the $99 to get it on your own device, and no you don't need to jailbreak (unless you want to circumvent the $99). Plus there are other ways to get the app on your device without paying or jailbreaking (creating your certificates, etc).
- chrisBob 12y ago
  You can see the example code and run it on the simulator without paying for the developer program. I think there is also still a student program that lets students run code on hardware for free, but yes, you need to pay for the developer program to run it on your own iPhone/iPad. The MIT license also means that if someone else wants to maintain it they can fix it up and put it back in the store.
- ianstallings 12y ago
  No you wouldn't need to jailbreak your phone to run it. You have the source code and you can compile that and xcode can install it.
  - nacs 12y ago
    XCode may be able to install it in the iOS Simulator but it certainly won't install on your device without the $99/year license (unless you jailbreak).
cfarm 12y ago
This is awesome
- dvingo 12y ago
  Thanks :)
patrickdavey 12y ago
Me too Me too! https://github.com/snowpool/ios_native_app https://github.com/snowpool/ios_native_app Admittedly it's not quite as universal as yours - being just a wrapper for a carpooling site for ski fields (my own side project (August last year -> http://snowpool.org/countries/new-zealand#year=2013&month=8&day=1&view=month http://snowpool.org/countries/new-zealand#year=2013&month=8&... ) Still, I had help from a great developer colleague of mine - so there might be some useful things in there for people to look at.
- gs7 12y ago
  And here's mine, a shopping list app: https://github.com/gschwarzer/Shopping-List https://github.com/gschwarzer/Shopping-List
hkailahi 12y ago
Downloaded! This will be a great template for an app I plan on building.
samstave 12y ago
Awesome. I spec'd out literally the eact same app years ago but never did anything with it.... Good job

52 points by dvingo 12y ago

dvingo 12y ago

I stopped doing iOS for a bit, so figured I might as well open this up. Hope someone finds it useful.

ahmett 12y ago
What does it do? It didn't seem practical to me from screenshots, does it somehow understand you're running or doing commute from location/sensors?
- dvingo 12y ago
  It's just a simple time tracker: you press start, then stop. You can group things by activity (like timing your commute everyday). There is a "trip" type which will also take your current GPS coordinates and your end coordinates to give you a as-the-crow-flies line on a map. An obvious next feature would be to take your coordinates on a recurring interval to give you a better view of where you traveled.
josephlord 12y ago
Cool. You might need to indicate that fonts are OFL not MIT licensed though.
- dvingo 12y ago
  Thanks, I updated to reflect that.
hamiltonkibbe 12y ago
Rad app, Dan
- dvingo 12y ago
  Thanks Hamilton, hope you're doing well.

dublinben 12y ago

In all sincerity, how useful is an open source iOS app? Don't you still need to pay their $100/year fee to distribute it? Wouldn't you have to jailbreak your phone just to install this yourself?

gregbarbosa 12y ago
Open source iOS apps are extremely helpful to anyone learning iOS development. There are intricacies to learn, and not everywhere teaches it all. Looking at someone else's completed iOS source code you can learn and understand UI/UX design patterns, the MVC process of creating iOS apps, and so much more. I recently took a course in college for iOS development, and because of open-source code I was able to ace the class and get picked-up for potential funding on the class project. Yes you need to pay Apple the $99 to get it on your own device, and no you don't need to jailbreak (unless you want to circumvent the $99). Plus there are other ways to get the app on your device without paying or jailbreaking (creating your certificates, etc).
chrisBob 12y ago
You can see the example code and run it on the simulator without paying for the developer program. I think there is also still a student program that lets students run code on hardware for free, but yes, you need to pay for the developer program to run it on your own iPhone/iPad. The MIT license also means that if someone else wants to maintain it they can fix it up and put it back in the store.
ianstallings 12y ago
No you wouldn't need to jailbreak your phone to run it. You have the source code and you can compile that and xcode can install it.
- nacs 12y ago
  XCode may be able to install it in the iOS Simulator but it certainly won't install on your device without the $99/year license (unless you jailbreak).

cfarm 12y ago

This is awesome

dvingo 12y ago
Thanks :)

patrickdavey 12y ago

Me too Me too! https://github.com/snowpool/ios_native_app https://github.com/snowpool/ios_native_app Admittedly it's not quite as universal as yours - being just a wrapper for a carpooling site for ski fields (my own side project (August last year -> http://snowpool.org/countries/new-zealand#year=2013&month=8&day=1&view=month http://snowpool.org/countries/new-zealand#year=2013&month=8&... ) Still, I had help from a great developer colleague of mine - so there might be some useful things in there for people to look at.

gs7 12y ago
And here's mine, a shopping list app: https://github.com/gschwarzer/Shopping-List https://github.com/gschwarzer/Shopping-List

hkailahi 12y ago

Downloaded! This will be a great template for an app I plan on building.

samstave 12y ago

Awesome. I spec'd out literally the eact same app years ago but never did anything with it.... Good job