Runervals
Automated Interval Running App
I've been waiting to do the Product Hunt launch because a lot of people haven't upgraded to iOS 15 yet. It's now been 3 weeks since the new OS came out, I'm thinking the early adopters on Product Hunt will likely be upgraded by now.
I would appreciate your support over on product hunt!
The app using some of the new APIs that are only available on iOS15 and WatchOS 8. Those were released on Monday, and so was Runervals!
Most of my target audience will not have the latest operating systems installed yet, so won't be able to find the app, but I've done a mini launch on twitter, where most of my network is other iOS devs.
I plan to follow this with a product hunt launch once a larger percentage of the population has upgraded to iOS 15.
I purchased an Apple Watch and started exploring the Swift APIs.
This is my first watch app, so I had some learning to do.
I wanted the app to automatically detect when you are running and when you are resting. This proved to be a bit of a challenge, because the location updates you get from the GPS take about 10-15 seconds to compute your average speed.
I ended up storing a bunch of sensor data on the device and went on many test runs in my back yard. It took a couple of weeks, and a bunch of tests to reliably detect running vs not.
Once I figured this part out, I started building out the UI and using the app on my 3x week runs.
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