Development Environment and Tools

Developing an iPad app with a rich gesture space and unique spatial-zooming visual model is technically challenging. Julia joins Mark and Adam to break down the software engineering behind Muse.

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Show notes

• Xcode
• iOS Simulator
• Swift
• Core Data
• Firebase
• Zoom privacy issue with Facebook SDK
• Ruby
• Postgres
• Heroku
• Choose Boring Technology
• Dataclips
• Gestures as defined by Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines
• Shannon Hughes / Detangling Gesture Recognizers
• The Omni Group
• GestureVisualization
• UIGestureRecognizer
• two-finger scrolling in Muse
• Muse design goals
• card-carry maneuver
• the inbox
• view hierarchy
• loading screens
• open-world games
• stylus swipe from screen edge to switch tools
• UIScreenEdgePanGestureRecognizer
• unix terminal
• ctrl-C to interrupt a program in unix
• state machine