I should probably explain what this #foolsdog stuff is about! Fool’s Dog is a small team that make iOS and Android apps for divination, contracting with Tarot & Oracle deck authors to profit share.
I’m the tech side of things, currently I am working on an iOS release which will bring all the individual app decks into one app, with an In-App-Purchase for each deck. This work was initiated because of a requirement from Apple, they decided not to like our having ~90 apps with very similar functionality, mostly differing in the images and books.
It’s kept me busy a while, as I’m learning the codebase and the language (Objective-C) on the fly, as well as upgrading parts of it to work with newer iOS SDKs,
I’ve got the functionality pretty much done (barring issues found by beta testers), decks can be bought, will be loaded, a default can be chosen, favorites set (listed first when picking a deck). Now I’m working on importing the rest of the existing decks (which were previously released with various ages of the software).
Look out for future ranting at iOS, Apple, code, plists and other fun things!
