Seasons

Why?

I was a fan of an application called Cold Open (only details I could find now is a 9to5Mac article). However, updates were few and far between, and eventually stopped. I decided to take the opportunity and develop my own version of a TV app.

Boy, if only I knew what I was getting myself into...

The 3 Year Journey

In late 2016 I began learning Swift, and before too long started work on Seasons. What I ended up with after a couple of months work was a prototype that let you search and favourite shows. Unfortunately, University work started ramping up and I lost interest in Seasons for the time being. It wasn't until early 2019 that I came back to the project and ended up completely rewriting the networking as quite a bit had changed with the API I was using in 2 years. Come WWDC19, SwiftUI announced and I, for some reason, thought it would be a good idea to implement SwiftUI somehow into Seasons. I did for Settings, but the more I tried to use it, the more I realised how unfinished it was. Regardless, development of Seasons continued and I implemented a heap of features (Cloud sync, notifications, a proper CoreData stack, etc). Development has slowed due to a number of reasons, but ultimately I believe it's because this project is too big for me to complete within a reasonable time.

What's next?

I do enjoy iOS Development, but I don't think solo iOS projects are for me, or at least this one. I have a few other small iOS projects under my sleeve that are in very early stages, so I guess only time will tell.

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Links

As with many of my projects, Seasons is fully open source and available at GitHub.