iOS13

2.6.2: A Tribute to the Marathon Distance

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

— Emil Zátopek

For many runners, marathon distance is sacred. To run a marathon, we can't fake through the training, and even when the training buildup goes perfectly, anything can happen on race day. A subtle variation from our plan on race day can have magnifying disastrous effects on our performance and experience. A lot of such critical variables are not even in our control to begin with. Running a marathon is a journey that changes us in so many ways. It’s such a unique lifetime experience that many of us find ourselves allured by the numbers 26.2 and 13.1 — the full and half marathon distance in miles.

iOS 13.1 instantly brought out the above intrigue in me. Without any specific plan around the release numbers, Tempo ended up being at 2.6.0 for iOS 13.0 launch. As iOS quickly went to 13.1, and Tempo was just .2 shy of 2.6.2, it felt like meant to be to ignore. So as a tribute to the marathon distance, Tempo has been updated to version 2.6.2 for iOS 13.1.✨

I wanted to do something simple and quick, but special for this one, so I picked up another version of dark mode theme. It was scrapped in favor of what we currently have as the default dark mode. After spending some time on it, to my surprise, the result is a beautiful new theme that we are calling Deep Blue. The name is still tentative for this one, we considered Blue Medal, Endurance Blue, Magic Blue, but for now Deep Blue it is. Please feel free to send your suggestions for the name.

There are also a couple of important bug fixes and enhancements, but I am really glad that we got this beautiful new dark mode theme in Deep Blue for this release. The fact that the theme was almost scrapped makes it special in its own way.

Dark Mode

Happy iOS 13 release day! iOS 13 brings the beautiful new dark mode, and Tempo is ready to sport the new look on day one. Tempo looks gorgeous and vibrant in dark mode.

Quick confession time: I do not use dark mode on my mac, so I was not too sure how it would work out on iOS. But as I was implementing it for Tempo, it slowly grew on me. Now I am a convert, so much so that I implemented a dark mode override feature in Tempo. While Tempo can match the system level dark mode (on/off) preference, with the override feature, it can also be enabled in dark mode while leaving the dark mode off at the system level.

You can start using Tempo in dark mode today by updating to v2.6.0 with iOS 13. Enjoy!