Way back on Day 47 I wrote a little habit tracking app. It was the challenge at the end of a JSON tutorial, so the persistence is done by writing the JSON to UserDefaults as a string. Basic as it is, it’s installed on my phone and I check it a couple of times a day, and haven’t missed a day of coding, or the weekly bin day since. It’s strangely motivating.
In the category of “getting ahead of myself”, my list of potential future apps to develop includes an entry for a simple accounting system. I guess transactions could live in SQLite, on iCloud for sharing between Mac and mobile devices. Nevertheless, while noodling about it, I thought I should think about it being fully online, and I’d heard Google’s Firebase (probably referring for specifically to Firestore ) mentioned in several iOS developer podcasts and thought I should take a look.