Moment Park Quarterly Update Q2 2022
Published on July 23, 2022 by Zee Spencer
Ahoy folks!
Cricket has been hard at work modernizing the applications, keeping up with Apple's release cadence. Here's an update on our current status and plans!
From Cricket:
I’ve been trying to resurrect Movie Looks for the past 8+ weeks, but it does not look like It can be done without a full rewrite. The current graphics/video processing implementation is 100% deprecated with no upgrade path after Apple gave up on any flavor of OpenGL and wants us to move to use Metal.
Cricket has been hard at work modernizing the applications, keeping up with Apple's release cadence. Here's an update on our current status and plans!
From Cricket:
I’ve been trying to resurrect Movie Looks for the past 8+ weeks, but it does not look like It can be done without a full rewrite. The current graphics/video processing implementation is 100% deprecated with no upgrade path after Apple gave up on any flavor of OpenGL and wants us to move to use Metal.
I've been dabbling with that a bit. I'm unclear as to how much effort it will truly take to recreate the functionality, but I'm sure it's possible. Raw video processing is rather foreign to me. I think I should put this app back on the back burner and check in with the others since they are getting user attention.
I was hoping to hit EACH app in the Moment Park suite to:
- Handle deprecations
- Add in tooling to allow more than one person to work on the codebases with ease. (i.e: xcodegen, firebase, etc)
- Redeploy for modern phones …
Then go back and add new features while working in unit tests as an ongoing process… But I got hung up on trying to fix a crashing bug in Movie Looks. I'm going to abandon that bug (because it's too friggin' opaque in OpenGL) and see about a small point release for the apps that people are writing to us about.