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Building my first mobile app: the journey so far - Part 2: App inception

In this post , I shed some light on the background and the circumstances leading upto my App( iOS ) and in this post, I will talk about when I first got the idea and for the App i.e. App Inception and my recovery. So for those who have not read part 1 of the series, basically what happened was, I am a Software engineer who lived a pretty good life, until one day I was a victim of a hit and run car accident. I was a pedestrian crossing the road, when a drunk driver ran a red light and hit me, left me for dead and ran away. I was eventually rescued by the paramedics and amongst other things, I suffered from a Traumatic brain injury and things fell apart. There is tragedy in my story, even though it's not quite like Okonkwo's story , it's tragedy none the less and my story is still going and good things are starting to happen. App inception So as I said, few months post injury, I had a break-up with my now ex-girlfriend, what that meant was that my family had to live...

Building my first mobile app: the journey so far - Part 1: The background

So I have made references to my iOS app in a lot of my previous posts, if you refer to my post on Why can't I cancel a local notification in my iOS app? (in Swift) , it mentions some of the posts that I have written on how I have solved some of the problems that I have come across. It's been a year since I have been working on the app and now that I am close to finishing it, I thought I would write a little bit about the background of how this app came to be. Prelude: the land of blue skies and sunshine The year was 2013 and these were some of the key aspects of my life, I was a bit of a fast talker and people often told me, my English ascent was pretty flat for a man from India I kept fit and I did regular runs with each run being over 8-10 km I had a very loving girlfriend and we had plans to get engaged to be married in 2014 I had a job that I loved and enjoyed After years of living in a place sharing with flatmates and all, I was finally living in my own apart...