James Haville

Rather unexpectedly I have managed to generate a few hundred dollars in the past few weeks from a few apps on the store. This is a bit of a surprise. I'm definitely keen to keep improving them and have done the home UI for

As 2020 draws to a close it's become clear that although YouTube can be a source of income in the long run it won't be something that is worth putting full time effort into in terms of the Adsense/affiliate revenue that is generated.

I decided to do the new Apple SwiftUI tutorial. In the tutorial you build a Scrum app. Apple describe scrums as "short meetings where each attendee discusses what they accomplished yesterday, what they are working on today, and any obstacles that might impact their

I did a video on how to integrate Firebase into a SwiftUI 2.0 project using Swift Package Manager. It's pretty impressive how clean the new code is to setup an app and integrate Firebase into it compared to what we used to have

I put together a script for the first finance video I was going to do for the new channel. It was on why you need to invest. I was doing a presentation style format with animated slides but then got distracted by my main

Something I've been toying with for quite a while now is creating another channel based around personal finance. I have a lot of knowledge in the space and it's become clear that content around money on YouTube is bid on by advertisers with good

I did a video on how to make an image gallery using SwiftUI. Interestingly I didn't need to use a ScrollView or HStack. It turns out that you can use a TabView with a PageTabViewStyle. This will automatically add your page indicators and allow

I did a video on what I would do if I was starting from the beginning and learning SwiftUI and Combine again. The focus is using the Apple provided tutorial/WWDC content to start on a solid basis... Apple SwiftUI Landmarks Tutorial: https://developer.

Another video (episode 18) in the series of building an iOS SwiftUI fitness app in public is out and in this one i build out the Settings tab. It's interesting because there's not really much out there to guide the approach for this one.

So it turns out it was not a hardware issue or a driver issue with AMD's graphics card. In fact it seems it was related to the OS. Apple this morning released a new version of Catalina (10.15.7) with the following line

So in the SwiftUI fitness app I'm building in public on my YouTube channel one of the premium features is likely to be a switch allowing the user to go between light and dark mode freely. This needs to reflect across the whole app

So whilst researching for a new video I'm going to be doing switching between light and dark mode in a SwiftUI app I stumbled across a situation where it only seemed to be saving the dark mode flag some of the time on the

So the saga in getting a business adsense account ready for the YouTube channel is not over. As expected I received the "you already have an adsense account associated to you" type email from my previous attempt so I created a new email and

In this episode of building a SwiftUI MVVM fitness app in public we add a plus icon to the navigation bar so we can present a modal to add a challenge. The fact we are listening to our challenges collection in our ChallengeListView means

When you start a channel it's very difficult to consider the medium to long term trend vs short term daily swings. For example the last two days I've gained 25 and 18 subscribers respectively. Today it is likely to be less than 5. It's

I need to define a better way of choosing what to work on. Right now the focus is building the YouTube channel producing videos that aren't really being done in the same level of detail elsewhere. Once this gets to a certain larger number,

It looks as though the government is sizing up for another lockdown. Round 2. I'm not convinced. As far as I can see the cost benefit of another one has not been calculated. The long term economic devastation, depression & suicide, loss of life

Part 1: https://jameshaville.com/adsense-problems/ So it looks like my personal adsense account has been re-enabled after my reinstatement request as I'm able to access the web interface again. Seems like my original thesis of needing to wait at least some time before

When I initially setup the youtube channel I had a personal adsense account. As I will be moving this over to a proper business I set about finding a way to convert this personal adsense account to a business account before I got the

I set a target for the end of September of 2000 subscribers. Having only hit 1555 by the end of August, therefore requiring 445 subscribers in September alone this was wildly ambitious. I wanted to push myself though. YouTube feeds on channel and video

With the recommended video calming down and going back to normal in terms of views I think it's important to outline a consistent long term approach to the channel in terms of the types of videos, the upload scedule and what I am trying

I just released another episode of building a SwiftUI iOS fitness app in public and in this video I make viewmodels from the challenges being observed from Firestore. I then create a ChallengeItemView which takes this ChallengeItemViewModel and display some basic UI from the

I've dabbled in live streaming on YouTube previously but I don't think streaming from a tiny screened laptop is the most optimal setup and I deleted it immediately after the stream so this is the first stream I left up. There's always going to

Around the same time I did my first proper live stream the iMac review/why I didn't wait for Silicon started to get ~80 views/hour (up from maybe 5/hour average for the previous 48 hours). Considering it's been out for 5/6

I wanted to change the blog from being on the subdomain blog.jameshaville.com to the main domain jameshaville.com. One of the reasons for this is because I'd like to get a business adsense account approved via this website before I hit youtube