I have my own App Store Connect account since 2016 but I used to use it as my playground and testing environment. Sometimes I used this account to prepare test builds for my clients, but most of the time it was quite empty and abandoned. Now I decided to change it so I started to work on some side projects this year. One of them is Dice.

The simplest app on the Earth

In the first iteration I wanted to keep the design of the app as simple as posible. It has only a toggle to choose single or double dice mode. I wanted to avoid designing complex UI for choosing between variaty of different configurations, die types, rules etc. It should be as simple as a die itself.

My goals could be listed as follows:

• Make the UX as simple as possible
• Clear and colorful UI
• Continuous experience: toggle state should be persisted, so if someone kills the app or something unexpected happens it should start as it was before
• Available in more than 6 languages (especially in English, Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Czech and Russian)
• Keep it easy to extend: it should be easy to add new functionalities etc.
• Persist as many statistics as possible to reuse them in the next iterations
• Nice architecture: the app is simple and was developed in hours (not days, weeks or months) but I wanted to do this right anyways (BTW I chose the MVVM… And ehm, it has no so many models actually… 😅)
• 100% Swift

You can find Dice: shake and roll on the App Store.