Fotogroep Waalre app goes open source

The Swift source code of the Fotogroep Waalre app is now in a GitHub repository. This allows software developers who are interested in photography to join in.


The Swift source code of the Fotogroep Waalre app is now in a GitHub repository. This allows software developers who are interested in photography to join in.

Context My iOS app Photo Club Hub) and macOS app (Photo Club Hub HTML) are, as the names suggest, closely related. They also share lots of Swift code. The two apps are managed in two separate GitHub repositories rather than two targets in the same repository. Having separate repositories spares contributors unnecessary complexity when working…
Github contributors have a page with a well-known graphic showing how active they were in, for example, the last 12 months. The horizontal axis is weeks, the vertical axis is within the week (Sunday is the top row). The intensity shows how many “contributions” they made to any public repository on Github. The color scales…
The Fotogroep Waalre app (called “Photo Club Waalre” in English) has a new version on the Apple App Store. Starting with v2.1.0 the app’s source code is now also available on a public GitHub repository. This was a matter of conforming to GitHub conventions (like having a markdown readme file). But it took quite some…
The iOS app formerly-known-as Photo Club Waalre (and Photogroep Waalre) has been renamed to Photo Club Hub. This applies to the code repository on Github, and to version 2.4.0 and above on Apple’s App Store. The name change emphasizes that the app is no longer tied to any single photo club. Since version 2.0 the…
Standard text localization When you create apps for the Apple ecosystem, you may need to support multiple languages. This is a key part of what is known as localization. It comes down to creating an English version of text strings – say the label of a “Submit” button -, and providing translations of “Submit” to…