A quick update on month two of Shareshot… with the launch on 12th August we’re just over two months in now. A big milestone was passed a couple of days ago, namely 10,000 framed screenshot exports, a pretty astounding number to see so early in the app’s life! The iOS 18 release which included frames for all the new devices and a Control Centre and Lock Screen Control Widget got us a really significant boost […]
I hit a problem in our app Shareshot related to rendering of shadows using Core Image. Our shadows are a black image with blur applied, so the image is rgb(0,0,0) with alpha that varies from 1 for the darkest center of the shadow to 0 on the edges.
On August 12th we launched our app Shareshot which makes it easy to add frames and backgrounds to screenshots or other images. Finally. Our fourth released indie app actually does some numbers.
If you're building App Intents and start seeing weird ` appintentsmetadataprocessor` build errors with Xcode 16 this might help you.
Everybody posting their 40th Anniversary of the Mac stories obviously prompted me to write this, which is a roundabout Mac journey. In hindsight the Mac clearly had its effect on me even when I wasn’t using it… I grew up in Kingston, South West London. Very popular at the time for its affordable/renovatable semi-detached Victorian houses which are now largely unaffordable to normal people. I didn’t know it at the time but I saw what […]