We need to change the carl weathers specific string when asking for location access.

I’d love see a friendlier message when the device has no cell service or wifi. The current “Update Failed” message makes it seem like the app is at fault, rather than the fact that you have no connection.

A message along the lines of “You’re currently offline” would be more clear.

We faced similar problems keeping keys secret when open sourcing our app Eidolon, so @orta made CocoaPods-Keys, a CocoaPods plugin designed specifically for the use case you have here.

If you'd like to see what using CocoaPods-Keys instead of Secrets.h would look like, I'd be happy to send a pull request.

It seems like the forecast paging only relies on velocity. You can see the issue I'm talking about if you very slowly scroll up and let go. Even if you pass the forecast view it bounces back

Forecast currently only supports the US (from here). We should handle when the user tries to refresh the app in an unsupported country.

Short short, I think we should change:

• App Name to "Tropos - Local weather forecasts for humans"
• Keywords to sun, rain, snow, cloud, wind, local, sunny, high, low, cloudy, rainy, storm, tornado, hurricane, fahrenheit

Not sure whether this is a code change or iTunes Connect-only?

Details:

I did a little research into App Store Optimization for Tropos and its competitors using https://sensortower.com:

Yahoo! Weather app

• Estimated to be worth $187 million.
• Ranked #2 in "Essentials-Weather" category.
• Ranked #7 in Top Free iPhone Apps.
• Won an Apple Design Award.
• A+ keyword optimization for weather, map, noaa, radar, best, sunset, sunrise, location, solar, watch, rain, snow, forecast, photo, storm, wind, sunny, hurricane

Weather Channel

• Estimated to be worth $252 million.
• Ranked #1 in "Essentials"
• Ranked #1 in "Top Free iPhone Apps"
• B+ keyword optimization for map, radar, sunset, best, tornado, wach, snow, rain, forecast, local, storm, ski, wind, alert, severe, weather

Weather Underground

• Estimated to be worth $25 million.
• Ranked #6 in Top Free iPhone Apps
• Ranked #16 in Top Grossing iPhone Apps - Weather
• Ranked #19 in Forecasts & Alerts

Tropos

• Estimated to be worth $1,330
• Ranked #187 in Top Grossing iPhone Apps - Weather
• Ranked #115 in Top Paid iPhone Apps - Weather
• iPhone Rank of 926 for "forecast"
• iPhone Rank of 868 for "rain"
• iPhone Rank of 961 for "sun"
• iPhone Rank of 1,377 for "weather"
• iPhone Rank of 1,470 for "cloud"
• iPhone Rank of 519 for "wind"

Analysis of Ranking Difficulty

I ran through a calculation to balance traffic, iPhone difficulty, and word length (we have a 100 letter limit in the Keywords field), and ranked by Traffic per Letter:

https://docs.google.com/a/thoughtbot.com/spreadsheets/d/1xVdWMrc7zUld0C6KG-…

Result:

• For what Tropos is and the ranked results, I think we want to ignore nws, noaa, tornado, storm, hurricane, temperature, thermometer, radar, etc.
• I think we want to include sun, rain, snow, local, cloud, wind, weather

Some App Keyword Best Practices, Info

• Don't repeat keywords
• Don't use company or app name in keywords, these already discoverable
• Avoid keywords where you're not competitive
• App Name acts like keywords, but does not seem to be weighted more than actual keywords
• App Name is used to create app URL, which can help with Google

Current and Proposed App Name + Keywords

At https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tropos-weather-forecasts-for/id955209376

• App Name is "Tropos - Weather and forecasts for humans"
• Keywords are weather, forecast, forecasts, conditions, temperatures, high, low, wind, sunny, sun, cloudy, cloud, rainy, rain

The next time we update the app, I'm proposing we update to:

• App Name changed to "Tropos - Local weather forecasts for humans"
• Keywords changed to sun, rain, snow, cloud, wind, local, sunny, high, low, cloudy, rainy, storm, tornado, hurricane, fahrenheit

The updating label is too high when there isn't a location. Then it jumps down when updated.

I looked into this and im not too clear on how to do it. I tried with IB and using "Attributed" type then it made all the text tiny without our right font.

Right now we're localizing the parts of these strings individually which could possibly lead to some odd translations in languages that don't have the same grammar structure as English.

Need to write a formatted for this. Needs to support metric, imperial and the UK's particular preference.

https://github.com/arashpayan/appirater ?

Prompt users after x hours or y opens to answer if they like the app, and send the ones who don't to your support email while prompting happy users to leave a review.

The ' and " in the coordinates are using a fallback font.

Scrolling down to the forecast view refreshes the weather and scrolls up.

Does the Forecast API work in countries? I've been reading that 75%+ of many app's sales are outside of the US.

https://developer.apple.com/internationalization/

What is Tropos' current metadata? Could we have multi-lingual speakers at thoughtbot translate them for us? /cc @conchan @tute @paulcsmith @devonharless @halogenandtoast @calleerlandsson @bernerdschaefer @kaishin @gylaz.

I think we have coverage for:

• Spanish
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Swedish
• German
• Russian

Use relative time within some threshold.

The problem with a lazy var is you can overwrite it:

let temp = Temperature(fahrenheitValue: 20)
temp.celsiusValue = 20

The math isn't particularly expensive, so using a computed variable is probably good enough. If we really want to lazily load the celsius value, we can do so with a private lazy var, which the computed variable calls/returns.

Hey,

As mentioned in another talk if some change will be bigger one I should create a task for it to lock some part of the project. And I would because I digged in the project and started changing it into Swift. I would like to lock entire /Models directory and work on it.

• Precipitation - PR #145
• Temperature - PR #141
• WeatherUpdateCache
• DailyForecast - PR #148
• WeatherUpdate

I think it should take one day and should be ready in next 24h (-9h to San Francisco time).

I started rewriting classes from /Model directory to Swift and see that TRWeatherLocation is unused. Is there any purpose that this file is still listed in project instead of being deleted? Don't know if should move it to Swift or just delete it.

The first time we launch the app we see this. I'm not sure but we might want to hide those icons at the bottom at first.

These don't look perfectly vertically aligned

If you pull to refresh, let go, and pull back down before the refreshing is over. You can reverse the animation. Then when you let go the loading animation exists forever.

We may want to spruce this up at some point. This looks pretty empty.

I think this looks a little weird. Up for discussion though

I'm trying to build the app on my laptop, but I'm running into an issue with bin/setup.

It looks like the gemfile installs 0.35.0, but the pods file actually requires 0.37+. Running bundle update followed by ./bin/setup appears to fix the error. This is using ruby 2.2.1p85 on OSX 10.11.

Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.........
Fetching version metadata from https://rubygems.org/...
Fetching dependency metadata from https://rubygems.org/..
Installing i18n 0.6.11
Using json 1.8.1
Installing minitest 5.4.3
Installing thread_safe 0.3.4
Installing tzinfo 1.2.2
Installing activesupport 4.1.8
Installing claide 0.7.0
Installing fuzzy_match 2.0.4
Installing nap 0.8.0
Installing cocoapods-core 0.35.0
Installing cocoapods-downloader 0.8.0
Installing cocoapods-plugins 0.3.2
Installing netrc 0.7.8
Installing cocoapods-trunk 0.4.1
Installing cocoapods-try 0.4.2
Using colored 1.2
Installing escape 0.0.4
Installing molinillo 0.1.2
Installing open4 1.3.4
Installing xcodeproj 0.20.2
Installing cocoapods 0.35.0
Installing xcpretty 0.1.7
Using bundler 1.10.4
Bundle complete! 2 Gemfile dependencies, 23 gems now installed.
Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed.
Analyzing dependencies
[!] The version of CocoaPods used to generate the lockfile (0.37.2) is higher than the version of the current executable (0.35.0). Incompatibility issues may arise.
/Users/will/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.1/lib/ruby/2.2.0/pathname.rb:430:in `open': No such file or directory @ dir_initialize - /Users/will/.cocoapods/repos (Errno::ENOENT)
    from /Users/will/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.1/lib/ruby/2.2.0/pathname.rb:430:in `foreach'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.1/lib/ruby/2.2.0/pathname.rb:430:in `children'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/cocoapods-0.35.0/lib/cocoapods/sources_manager.rb:63:in `all'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/cocoapods-0.35.0/lib/cocoapods/user_interface/error_report.rb:130:in `repo_information'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/cocoapods-0.35.0/lib/cocoapods/user_interface/error_report.rb:34:in `report'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/cocoapods-0.35.0/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:58:in `report_error'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/claide-0.7.0/lib/claide/command.rb:300:in `handle_exception'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/claide-0.7.0/lib/claide/command.rb:274:in `rescue in run'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/claide-0.7.0/lib/claide/command.rb:264:in `run'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/cocoapods-0.35.0/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:45:in `run'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/gems/cocoapods-0.35.0/bin/pod:43:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/bin/pod:23:in `load'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/bin/pod:23:in `<main>'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval'
    from /Users/will/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.1/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<main>'

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Created Tropos/Secrets.h. Please add your keys to it.
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On the latest beta, I've still not received any push notifications at all.

Hey folks,

Thanks for open sourcing the project! Its great to watch the ThoughtBot team (and now others) doing what they do best.

My question is around MVVM Architecture, other implementations of MVVM seem to throw everything into the viewModel where Tropos has a controller object that seems to do most of the heavy lifting. What is the thinking around this? How do you decide where the responsibility of the controller & viewModel starts and ends?

To use an example, lets say Tropos one day requires user authentication in order to see the weather updates, this introduces a authenticationViewController, authenticationController and authenticationViewModel.

If the authenticated state is determined by presence of a accessToken in userDefaults is it the controller that would be providing a RAC signal here? Is the viewModel aware of the authenticated state?

Thanks again!

I just hit a case where my update had failed because of connectivity. Then after the next update the label continued to say failed. Not worth spending a lot of time on if we can't reproduce.

We talked about this before. We need to decide if we want to.

Circle is broken, we should look at going back to Travis.

CocoaPods 0.38 throws an exception with this project on pod install. Looks like this is due to a change in the post-install hook. Setting CocoaPods to 0.37.2 in the Gemfile is a simple workaround for anyone else running in to this issue.

$ pod install
Analyzing dependencies

CocoaPods 0.38.0.beta.1 is available.
To update use: `sudo gem install cocoapods --pre`
[!] This is a test version we'd love you to try.

For more information see http://blog.cocoapods.org
and the CHANGELOG for this version http://git.io/BaH8pQ.

Pre-downloading: `Specta` from `https://github.com/specta/specta.git`, tag `v0.3.0.beta1`
Downloading dependencies
Installing Expecta (0.3.1)
Installing HockeySDK (3.6.2)
Installing Mixpanel (2.7.2)
Installing OCMock (3.1.2)
Installing OHHTTPStubs (3.1.10)
Installing ReactiveCocoa (2.4.7)
Installing Specta (0.3.0.beta1)
Generating Pods project
2015-06-28 14:13:38.395 ruby[10572:1662232] [MT] DVTAssertions: ASSERTION FAILURE in /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/IDEFrameworks/IDEFrameworks-8123.33/IDEFoundation/Initialization/IDEInitialization.m:590
Details:  Assertion failed: _initializationCompletedSuccessfully
Function: BOOL IDEIsInitializedForUserInteraction()
Thread:   <NSThread: 0x10508f720>{number = 1, name = main}
Hints: None
Backtrace:
  0  0x0000000108a19047 -[DVTAssertionHandler handleFailureInFunction:fileName:lineNumber:assertionSignature:messageFormat:arguments:] (in DVTFoundation)
  1  0x0000000108a187d4 _DVTAssertionHandler (in DVTFoundation)
  2  0x0000000108a18a40 _DVTAssertionFailureHandler (in DVTFoundation)
  3  0x0000000108a189a2 _DVTAssertionFailureHandler (in DVTFoundation)
  4  0x000000010e4491a9 IDEIsInitializedForUserInteraction (in IDEFoundation)
  5  0x000000011235fa5d +[PBXProject projectWithFile:errorHandler:readOnly:] (in DevToolsCore)
  6  0x00000001123615e2 +[PBXProject projectWithFile:errorHandler:] (in DevToolsCore)
  7  0x00007fff9c770f14 ffi_call_unix64 (in libffi.dylib)
Abort trap: 6

Podfile.lock created with version 0.38.2: https://github.com/thoughtbot/Tropos/blob/master/Podfile.lock#L48
Gemfile.lock has cocoapods versioned at 0.37.2
https://github.com/thoughtbot/Tropos/blob/master/Gemfile.lock#L11

Resulting in this warning in bin/setup:

[!] The version of CocoaPods used to generate the lockfile (0.38.2) is higher than the version of the current executable (0.37.2). Incompatibility issues may arise.

and possibly related error later in bin/setup : Generating Pods project

And, lastly, in workspace:

Seeing if I can whip up a quick fix.

Just started converting classes from ViewModel.

Here you can find status of conversion.

• TRDailyForecastViewModel
• TRWeatherViewModel

Pull requests will be created after classes from #137 are merged because these new classes needs those from #137.

I also decided to convert few formatters to make my work simpler with converting TRWeatherViewModel.

• TRPrecipitationChanceFormatter
• TRTemperatureFormatter
• TRDateFormatter
• TRBearingFormatter
• TRWindSpeedFormatter
• TRTemperatureComparisonFormatter
• UIColor+TRTemperatureColors

Various strings are unused in the translations and we should remove them to prevent confusion / unnecessary work. Thanks to @tomkowz for bringing these up.

• PrecipitationChanceFormat
• NoneRain
• Good
• Slight
• None

Hey guys!

The app looks nice, it's very simple but looks gorgeous. I like such simple design ;) I found the repo via Open Sourcing Tropos, Our iOS Weather App. Gordon wrote about moving app to Swift. It means that new classes, etc. should be created in Swift or we can also play and rewrite existing classes in Swift?

Thanks!

Why:

• More links to the troposweather.com website (SEO)
• Run ads (acquisition)

What:

• Announce releases, new capabilities
• Share amusing weather events

If the current recorded temperature goes above a high or below a low, we should move the high and low to match.

Yesterday Tropos said that it was "hotter" today than yesterday, but that was because it was like 0 the day before and was 14 or something that morning.

I think it would be good if this language was adjusted to never say "hot" if the temperature is below freezing.