Time In Words for iOS started off as a fun gimmick, emulating the Qlocktwo type of time display where the relevant words are highlighted in some way to spell out the time as a sentence. This very quickly evolved into what I hoped would be more useful app, still showing the original display, but also providing the current time & date as complete sentences. Then I added time conversions and discovered the real power and utility of writing out times as words.

As described in a previous post, about 9 days ago I submitted my first Apple Watch app for review. The app was an extension of my golf scoring app: The 19th Hole.

I expected that App Store review times would go up dramatically once Apple had allowed developers to submit watch apps, but this proved to be incorrect. Three days after submission, the app was marked as "In Review". This seemed to happen last thing on a Saturday, so there was no further action for two days, at which point the app was rejected, with the following details (sic):

I have just submitted my first Apple Watch app to the iTunes App Store. This is a scary thing to do, since I have never seen, touched or used an Apple Watch and all I had to go on was the Simulator that Apple supplies with Xcode.

At the moment, Apple has only made a limited set of Apple Watch features available to developers, and all Apple Watch apps come tethered to an iOS app - presumably this will mainly be iPhone apps, but I wonder will we be able to connect Apple Watches to iPads? Anyway, it made sense to extend one of my existing apps to use the Apple Watch instead of starting from scratch.

When I converted my site to Jekyll & GitHub, one of the things I left behind was a collection of LiveCode (Revolution) stacks. For many years I was active in the Revolution community before going in other directions and over that time, I built up a small library of stacks that I released into the public domain.

LiveCode is a cross-platform rapid development environment. There is an open source community edition available for anyone wishing to get started.

So why an announcement for such a minor upgrade?

Version 3.0 got no announcement because it was not the release I wanted.

Having downloaded the Xcode 6.2 & 6.3 betas, I had worked out what icons were needed to a WatchKit app. This, combined with several other changes, made me bump the version number to 3.0.

Sadly, Apple rejected the update because it referred to pre-release products. So I pulled all mentions of WatchKit out of the interface and meta data and got 3.0 released.

After the Apple keynote on March 9th, I re-enabled the WatchKit portions of the app and re-submitted to the App Store, hoping that with the WatchKit SDK now part of the official Xcode release, Apple's reviewers would allow it to get through this time.