My latest app enables users to calculate tips as quickly and simply as possible.
This project riffed off of our first challenge at Mobile Makers Academy: create a simple number multiplier. Based in a single-view Xcode template, calculating the tip was just as simple as, well… calculating a tip! Each element of the calculation exists as a property set according to user input.
Although a simple app, there were a few challenges that took some improvising. For example, the user shouldn’t be able to enter a bill with more than two decimal places. Also, the float value extracted from the billTextField needs to ignore the $ prefix. If you want to see how that’s done, check out my github.
For someone who’s focused solely on programming for the past few months, I had a lot of fun working on this app’s UI / UX.
The interface was designed on Sketch App for Mac (a must-have for any mobile UI designer).
For the static text, I went with my favorite open-source font: Raleway extrathin by Matt McInerney.
Tiply should be up in the App Store later this month.
