Just brought home your Apple Vision Pro and are ready to start developing? Well hold on a second – the process for setting it up isn’t super clear and doesn’t exist anywhere in Apple’s documentation that I could find. The steps are pretty simple, but you will be jumping back and forth between the headset and your mac.

1. Connect both devices to the same wifi network
2. On Vision Pro: Settings > General > Remote Devices
3. On Mac: Xcode -> Devices & Simulators -> Select your Vision Pro & enter the code
4. On Mac: Run a build targeted at your vision pro device which should now be a run destination (The developer mode isn’t visible until you do this), you will get an error saying developer mode is not enabled.
5. On Vision Pro: Privacy & Security > Developer Mode

After that your Apple Vision Pro will reboot and you will be ready for development!

For the first time in a while, I have released a completely new product! This is an Apple Watch focused app, that works with the new Time In Daylight tracking features of watchOS 10. Using Daylight Goals you can easily setup a goal for how much time you want to spend outside each day. It features a bunch of widget options to put around your apple watch, and even a smart stack widget.

Currently pending review already is a brand new 7 day chart widget. So now you can see how much sun you’ve been getting over the past week! Lots more updates are planned including streak tracking and more notification options.

Check out more details at the Daylight Goals website, here. Or if you are ready to start tracking your sun time, download now!

I’m a bit late to post this, but recently I put together a quick game in less than 48 hours for the Ludum Dare 53 game jam competition. The game I built is called Drone Delivery Service, it is a 2D physics based “platformer” where you control a drone and have to deliver packages to the portals at the end of the level. It is a quick game, I only had time to implement 5 levels, but I really enjoyed the gameplay concept. It was built using Godot 4, which was my first time using the engine. You can play the game here on Itch.io.

I’m thinking about making this into a full mobile game by expanding on the idea with more level interactions and enemies, along with a refined physics based flying and tethering system.

Amounts 3.0 has been released after many years of no updates! Amounts 3.0 is a complete rewrite of the app from the ground up to use the latest technologies, and be adaptable and easily upgradable. I already have many updates planned for it in the coming months.

To start, Amounts 3 keeps the same simple premise of being a manual, personal expense tracker. Entering transactions is the core of the app and it retains its ability to quickly enter in data so that tracking your expenses is never a burden. Quick actions from the app icon let you jump straight into the create transaction screen, where you can type the amount, tap on a category and be on your way. Enter in a description if you want to have incredible search capabilities with the full text search. Add in images if you want to keep transaction receipts. New in Amounts 3, you can now store up to 5 images per transaction, add them from your camera or from your photos directly.

iCloud sync has been integrated into the core of Amounts 3 to allow you to use amounts on any Apple device and keep them all in sync. Coming soon is a dedicated Mac version, as well as an improved iPad interface, as well as Amounts on your Apple Watch.

A full feature roadmap is coming soon, but I can also announce that in the works is the first update which introduces budgets for categories!

A small update to Amounts came out this week that is making the base app now available for free! All existing users will keep their upgraded features, but now you will be able to try the app before you buy, and the pro upgrade is available as an in-app purchase.

I’m now looking into some cool new features for the next few months, namely syncing and Universal support so that you will be able to view and modify your data on an iPad!

After nearly two years in (Part time) development, Amounts 2 has finally been sent off to Apple for review. This will be a free update to all users, and I think everyone will love it. The UI has been overhauled to support the new screen sizes, icons have been updated, and now the app supports all the latest iPhone hardware features including 3D Touch shortcuts and Peek/Pop. There is also an Apple Watch app for those of you sporting an Apple Watch this year.

Review should hopefully be completed by the end of this week, look out for more information on this blog.

It has been a while since I have updated this page! I just wanted to let people know that there was a change to sqlite in iOS 8.2 that has caused issues with Amounts. I’ve just submitted a small bugfix update to Apple that should hopefully go out next week.

In the meantime I will give you a little update on me, a year ago I accepted a mobile development position at TelTech. They are a great company building awesome telephony software, personally I have worked on both TapeACall and SpoofCard, so check those out if you need an awesome call recording or call spoofing app. I really love working with the team there and we have some great new software in the works.

I have also been working on a huge amounts update that I started work on over a year ago. It includes new location based features, an iOS 8 widget, new visuals, new searching options and more! It is really pretty awesome and I think everyone will like it. I’ll be posting new information on this soon!