Day 4: Step by Step
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Getting behind Xcode was pretty hard today, but I selected what I thought was a pretty straightforward task to accomplish. About an hour later, I was able to get it completed and implemented a new layer of customization for the app. However, this was made possible by a great Swift Package called MCEmojiPicker.
This package allows you to easily show a fairly simple emoji picker without much overhead. It fully supports UIKit and, most importantly, SwiftUI. The package really shines with SwiftUI thanks to its use of bindings, which makes handling the selection a breeze. Packages like this are really great in helping you not reinvent the wheel for every little feature of your app.
Even though the past two days haven’t been the most productive with checking things off of my list of tasks before launch, I’m still glad I’m making forward progress. Hopefully, keeping up this pace will help me get across the finish line. Which makes me start to wonder when exactly that finish line should be set, as I don’t really have a natural deadline for the app. My initial thought is to aim for an end of August to launch, but shoot for much sooner to help get the app out the door and collecting feedback beyond my small selection of beta testers.