Hello All,
I hope my first post here finds everybody doing well.
I wish to develop a simple app. I have some coding experience using other technologies. This would be my first iOS and MacOS app. I am asking for advice regarding the choice of tools and or technology. Here is what I think potential advice givers need to know:
- Motivation is to keep evil coworkers from messing with my Mac when I step away from, (often), my desk
- In order to thwart their machinations, I have set my Mac to lock after a very short period of inactivity - this is often a pain as I am sitting at my desk when the Mac locks
- I wear a fairly new iWatch and am using an M2 Macbook Air
- I want an app that keeps my Mac from locking when I am nearby
- I want an agent that runs on my Mac that listens for pings from my iWatch
- I want an app for my iWatch that pings my Mac
- It would be nice to be able to set the radius of the "nearby zone" and ping rate
- A ping would interact with my agent so as to keep my Mac from locking
- If no ping, Mac locks per whatever time-out setting I have on my Mac
I know, I know. I could just use some key combos. No need to point out the obvious way of dealing with the bozos, (we have fun), that I work with. Stymying them in this manner would enhance my happiness.
I just want a bit of advice on the appropriate way of going about this. Hopefully, anything I learn might someday be applied to the development of other simple apps.
Thanks for any thoughts offered!
John Ullom
