{"id":163,"date":"2016-07-18T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/?p=163"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:04:23","slug":"the-simplest-things-are-often-the-hardest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"The simplest things are often the hardest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So had a few more successes last week.<\/p>\n<p>I got CoreAudio\/AudioUnit Swift code running in a XCode Playground.  This was a big help in trying to understand how AudioUnits work, and how to work with C Pointers in Swift.<\/p>\n<p>I also got a very simple CoreLocation application running, which retrieved the compass direction. [That is probably the easiest thing I have done so far.]<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to vent just a little.  In developing this app for iOS I am completely baffled about one thing about trying to develop and app for an Apple platform.<\/p>\n<p>I really wish Apple\u2019s documentation for development was a lot better.  I cannot think of a single thing I have yet to try to do on iOS or macOS yet, in which I did not have to look up a tutorial or an example for how to do something from a third party source.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to Microsoft\u2019s MSDN it just seems that Apple\u2019s developers\u2019 documentation is pretty thin.<\/p>\n<p>Sure Apple supplies some guides and sample code.  However, I tend to find Apple\u2019s choice of a sample code examples to be a little esoteric.  Especially when I just happen to need just a really brain-dead example to help me grasp the concept on how I should use a framework.<a id='_GoBack'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know, I just find it funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So had a few more successes last week. I got CoreAudio\/AudioUnit Swift code running in a XCode Playground. This was a big help in trying to understand how AudioUnits work, and how to work with C Pointers in Swift. I also got a very simple CoreLocation application running, which retrieved the compass direction. [That is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-masters","category-searrl2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1wOQH-2D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constructive-noise.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}