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I can talk to my iPhone app now
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I added voice control to my pour-over coffee app. Using OpenAI’s latest voice model, I can have a natural back-and-forth conversation with the app and change recipe settings—even after I’ve started a recipe. I gave the voice model tools to change any recipe setting. The app used the Gleam voice and can explain how to pour with a gooseneck kettle. It was awesome, and our babysitter couldn’t stop laughing yesterday. I'd need to figure out pricing to cover the cost, but it could help with onboarding new users. The iPhone Duo is coming next month, and you can pre-order an iPhone 18 Pro today. There’s also an Xcode detail worth knowing.
Makefiles for Agents Whenever I start a new project or revive an old one, I use my AppCreator skill to create a Makefile with build commands my agents can use. Copy it for your next project. I used it to revive my 16-year-old iPhone app. Talk soon, P.S. Need help with your iPhone app? Book a time on my calendar. Let’s chat. |
Super Easy Apps Weekly - Paul Solt
Join 6,727+ iOS/macOS developers using Codex and Claude to build and ship apps. Expect practical tutorials, repeatable workflows, and hard-earned lessons from 7 shipped apps and time at Apple, Microsoft, and GoPro.
Hey Reader,Check out GPT-6 Astra. It's a refreshing update that is a leap ahead of Sol.Here are my latest projects that Astra is making even better. The GPT-6 Astra Thinking LEVEL You Need to Use – I used to make a running/walking companion app for my speed work & conditioning. GPT-6 Astra Did This on Light Thinking – 3D ray tracer port from my Windows C++ code to Swift on iPhone (19-year-old code). Is This Spider Dangerous? (I Added AI to My iPhone App) – Astra fixed my iOS app to use my...
Hey Reader,This week, I started a manager agent before bed, and it worked all night. When I woke up, it had broken a working feature, added weird workarounds for a problem that wasn't real, and dropped the feature. The feature? Distinguishing between a PiP video close vs. pause in my timer app on iPhone. We had a random 250ms delay to differentiate the two, and removing it broke some behavior. Except the delay wasn't necessary, and the feature was fine before the agents touched it. This kept...
Hey Reader,You can now use Super Easy Timer on iPhone. I had my agents use the Mac app as a reference and extracted a shared library of code using the Swift Package Manager (SPM). This is the brains of my timer app, and it's shared across iOS and macOS. The MVP worked last week, but it wasn't reliable until I added AlarmKit. That allows timers to persist even if the app is force-quit or the iPhone is locked (just like Apple's system alarms). That was my biggest blocker, and now that it's in,...