Everything Apple Watch – Overcast,Federico’s custom ‘Ping My iPhone’ shortcut, an interview with developer Aaron Pearce, Ryan looks at the defining features of the Apple Watch Series 4, an Apple Watch Straw Poll, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episode of AppStories....
Interview: Aaron Pearce
Twitter: @aaron_pearce. iOS developer and creator of HomeCam, HomePass, and HomeScan; Admin of iOS Developers, a global iOS developer community. You recently released a major update to HomeCam with extensive support for Siri shortcuts. What were the challenges in building these shortcuts for live video, as well as enabling live streaming on the Watch? HomeKit...
Previously, On MacStories
Overcast 5.0.2 Adds New Series 4 Complications, More Siri Shortcuts Connected, Episode 211: That’s Enough To Shrink Some Jeans iPhone XS Line Capturing Selfies with the Appearance of Skin Smoothing Google Maps Adds Commuting Features Apple Releases Materials for the Everyone Can Create Curriculum An In-Depth Explanation of Computational Photography on the iPhone XS Apple...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John talk about how they’ve set up their new Series 4 Apple Watches including the complications they use, new apps they are trying, and what’s in their Watch docks....
Straw Poll
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Interesting Links
NSHipster examines the new Dynamic Desktop feature of macOS Mojave to discover how everything works behind the scenes. Fascinating explanation. (Link) AnandTech has an in-depth review of the technical details of the iPhone XS and XS Max complete with performance tests. (Link) The Verge has a fantastic look at Telltale Games, the maker of The...
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In This Issue
This month, Ryan discusses the apps he uses that withstood the busiest time of the year at MacStories, Stephen is frustrated by the lack of flexibility of the new Apple Watch faces, and John shares how he approached writing this year’smacOS review....
In This Issue
Textor,Our Favorite Watch Apps (Vol. 4), a custom save menu shortcut for Keep It, an interview with LookUpdesignerVidit Bhargava, plus the usual Weekly Q&A, Tip, Links, App Debuts, arecap of MacStories articles, and a preview of next week’s episode of AppStories....