SwiftUI

Habitat is my first published app on the iOS App Store. This page serves as background information on the creation of Habitat and what it took to get it published. For information about the app itself, I recommend checking the showcase site or the App Store page. Why mobile app development? I love hacking away at code and problem solving really. For my MSc I’ve been doing Cyber Security, and while I find it interesting and enjoyable, I get the most satisfaction out of building a product....

This week I set myself the goal of getting home screen widgets working in Habitat. I hadn’t touched the codebase in over a month since I’ve had to deal with the busiest semester of my MSc course. Before I went on a mini-hiatus, I added a Bubble Grid widget which simply displays all of your habits in a grid of Habitat-style bubbles. Since my app uses SwiftData for storing habit data, the Bubble Grid had to query the database somehow....