as an app developer, people ask me all the time, James, do you have a
bunch of really awesome applications that you use for development?
What is on James' phone?
What types of applications does an app developer actually have?
In fact, I got this question via email, so I figured today I would
break it all down by giving you a full tour of my iOS device and every
single app that I have installed.
So tune in.
Hey everyone.
So no joke.
Literally, this was a question that I totally got written into
me on my about page over here.
You can just write in and request types of videos.
Somebody asked, what types of apps do you have on your phone?
What does your widget screen look like?
Well, lemme break it all down for you.
In fact, I'm gonna go ahead and bring up my iOS device.
Whoa, there it is.
Look at that.
Uh, it's actually, um, doing some screen mirroring here.
Just via H D M I.
So we can go ahead and look at it here.
Uh, and this is it.
I have one home screen, that's it, one screen.
My Apple Fitness Plus is my big one.
I have some of my top applications that I use, a little bit of
weather, and of course, podcast, which is my podcast application.
On the bottom, I have things that I use all the time, such
as phone, iMessage, Gamara.
Browser.
Good to go.
All right.
If I swipe over here, this is basically the apps that
we're gonna go through today.
Let's go through each of the categories, not necessarily maybe
recently editor suggestions.
Uh, however, apparently it wants me to look at my Dyson
fans, so that's fascinating.
Let's go ahead and take a look at what I have.
. First and foremost, let's go into social boo.
Uh, not very many social apps as you would maybe think.
I'd have a bunch of social applications, but I really try to
slim down and minimize the type of applications that I have on my phone.
The ones that I use all the time are pretty much the ones that are installed.
iMessage, phone, FaceTime.
I do use Instagram, both personally, uh, and professionally, and.
Sign on, side hustle.
Weird things that I'm doing, like coffee roasting on the side.
I use Snapchat all the time.
I love Snapchat.
Uh, mostly for just texting with my friends, uh, and my
family members and my wife.
That's mostly what I use it for.
In fact, I think the best use case for Snapchat is sending short videos,
like when we're traveling to say hello, see how things are going.
It's a lot nicer than cluttering up iMessage with photos that you're just kind
of one-offs and of course, little videos.
Now what.
I kind of hate, I'm not a big fan of WhatsApp.
Not that it's a bad app, I just don't like the concept of
having more chat applications.
There's nothing wrong with WhatsApp.
I'm not really a WhatsApp person, although I have found it useful with all my
amazing colleagues that are international as a great way to synchronize.
So there's my social category.
Alright, productivity, finance.
What you got for me?
iOS?
Not much.
This is pretty boring.
These are literally apps that you'd probably expect, well,
maybe, maybe not all of them.
So we got authentication app.
Okay, cool.
We got the authenticator, we got my banking applications, calendar, contacts,
files, little insurance application.
And you may have noticed there's quite a few of I, um,
Google applications on here as.
Things like Gmail and Google Keep are my go-to for, for
kind of reminders and notes.
And of course email.
I still have the Apple Mail application on there mostly for testing.
Now I have shortcuts, but I don't really use shortcuts.
I know I probably should use shortcuts, but I don't want to use shortcuts.
I don't use shortcuts.
Uh, Google Voice I use because I have a Google Voice number, which is super
nice when you're doing like business types, interactions and things like.
I also have OneDrive on there.
I use OneDrive personally for every single thing.
Every single video is on my OneDrive.
I use Google Docs for everything like that.
And the OneDrive app is fan tasic.
And of course I have Visor.
So I did a video on actually screen mirroring, uh, with
different types of applications.
And Visor is one of my favorite ones.
So Visor is one of one of my development apps that I have on here, I would say.
All right, next up, utility.
This is the big one.
Uh, funnily enough, the Authenticator app and the Google Authenticator app aren't
in the same folder, but they're in here.
Got an app store, AIE home.
I have one Smart . I have one smart, um, outlet that I bought on Slick
deals a long time ago from aki.
It was like five bucks and I use it on our Christmas tree around the holidays.
Um, so this app usually just sits there dormant forever, basically let.
Clock calendar Compass as expected.
Um, AppSource Connect, one of my favorite applications as
I'm checking app store reviews.
I'm checking in to see how my, um, applications are
being downloaded or updated.
Um, the AppSource Connect application.
Super good.
So if you're an iOS developer, advisor, AppSource Connect are, those are
the ones on there that recommend.
I use Microsoft Edge as my browser of choice.
I have Safari on here as well, but I don't really use it too much.
But Edge is my go-to since I synchronize between my Windows device, iOS device, Mac
device, and my Android devices as well.
Uh, GOVI is another smart home type application like aki.
And just like Aki, I have.
One smart thing on this, uh, which is specifically water sensors.
They're on sale on Amazon, so I got those.
I do use Apple, uh, home.
I have an Apple TV and some of my cameras are on there.
But, uh, mostly the, the, the home is nice when I need to share some access.
Uh, things like the thermostat with my wife, which is nice.
Uh, magnifier measure, those are built in Mint Mobile.
Check out my Mint mobile reviews.
Awesome.
Uh, scoreboard is an application that I no longer offer on the app store, but it's
a very simple app store, uh, scoreboard application to count up and down.
I got rid of it cause I didn't wanna update it anymore.
And then what test flight?
Gotta have test flight.
So app store connect, test flight.
Those are the things that are on there.
I use test flight all the time for my own applications and from
a brand's applications as well.
Entertainment.
Not a lot.
I have zero games on this device.
Uh, I guess I don't really play games on my phone.
I have in the past here and there, but you know, not, not very much anymore.
Mostly play on my Nintendo Switch or my Xbox Series S.
So I do have the Harmony application from Logitech.
Yes.
Harmony.
I'm a big Harmony fan, even though I'm pretty sure they've discontinued all
the harmony, uh, remotes at this point.
But this is a great applica.
Well, it's actually not a great application, but it's an application that
helps you manage, you know, universal.
iTunes store.
Never use it.
Music, never use it.
My Nintendo Switch app, I use that, which is nice.
I'm a Regal Unlimited member.
I always get the Black Friday deal, seeing all the movies.
Last year I think, I think I saw enough to save quite a few dollars.
You get a bunch of free popcorn, so I like it.
And the Regal from me is really close.
Apple tv, I don't actually watch it on here.
Why is it on here?
Anyways, it's on here, but I use it on my Apple TV and I watch.
Ted Lasso.
Other shows like that.
YouTube, YouTube music.
I'm a YouTube premium fan.
I'm a big fan and I'll go back to Google Music before that,
YouTube music after this.
So a big fan of that.
It's my go-to content consumption more than anything is YouTube.
And then YouTube music, uh, is my go-to music, uh, as well, which is cool.
All right.
Other, that's a good category.
Other, uh, adventure labs, uh, from Geocaching hq.
It's pretty awesome.
Dutch Brothers, uh, cause I love coffee Echo B cuz that's my smart thermostat.
Of course.
One device for an entire application.
Nailed it.
UFI Security is my security system, uh, which has a bunch of cameras.
I dunno, I got like too many of them.
Apple Fitness, I'm an Apple Fitness plus a member, big fan.
Fred Meyers, our local grocery store chain.
Gonna get those digital coupons.
Uh, M Smart Home, not Ms.
Smart Home, but m Smart Home.
Uh, this is specifically for dehumidifiers that are smart.
So again, one device for an application.
Nailed it.
Uh, my cadence, uh, that's my application called My Cadence.
And I see Dyson copied me with my Dyson.
I see what you're doing there, Dyson.
Uh, my cadence is for cycling.
My Dyson is for my, uh, air pur purifiers.
Nano leaf is for these nano leafs.
Back there, uh, Phillips Hugh, uh, for Ma Hughes Smart Light bulbs,
which I only have like in this house we have like, Three maybe.
And that's it.
Just by the, in the bedroom.
So you can turn on and off the, the lights while you're in bed.
Uh, which is on home kit as well.
Uh, I intend to switch parental control so I can get my reports.
Switch bot another smart home device.
How many smart home device?
Oh, there's another one after this.
Oh my goodness.
Uh, this is a little, I did a review on this.
I'll put a link, but it basically is a little toggle.
They got all sorts of things de humid.
They got humidifiers, they got thermostats and all sorts of.
gizmos and gadgets.
Smart.
A switch bot is really cool.
Win.
It's smart.
Again, yet another app for a single device.
This is another air purifier from Costco.
So we have three air purifiers in the house, uh, just because.
Um, get smoky on occasion, uh, in wildfire season.
Video and photo, also pretty minimal.
I have my Canon M 50 right here in front of me and I use the camera
connect to do the g p s location and download photos off of it.
D g I fly and mimo.
Those are for my D G I drones and my.
Other device thingy, whatever that thing's called Google Photos.
We're a huge Google photos, uh, family here, Google Photos for everything.
Uh, I triply upload all my photos, uh, from my, my phone though, to,
to, to not only OneDrive, to Google Photos and to, uh, iTunes or I
photos or whatever they're Lightroom.
Although I don't really use Lightroom very much, I should
probably not subscribe to it.
Really nice And Nish, uh, on my team has one of the most amazing, uh, Instagrams.
I'm always jealous of it.
And he just has amazing Lightroom capabilities.
Uh, apple photos, we definitely use those, which are nice.
It's kind of cool on the widget screen to, to get different
photos from different places.
So I like that.
And then YouTube Studio as a content creator, I'm in YouTube studio all the
time, getting comments, things like that.
It's basically like app store Connect, but for YouTube creator.
Uh, we got information and reading.
Uh, we got our garbage application so I know what garbage to take
out when Libby is our, the, you know, public library application.
Apple News, I don't really use Apple News Pocket Cast
though, is my number one pocket.
Casting podcast application of all time.
I've been using it forever in a day.
Uh, stocks, tips, weather translate, they're all there.
UAV V.
Forecast.
So if you're a drone flyer, this is the number one, my
favorite application of all time.
It basically tells you if there's any alerts, you know, wind
conditions, forecast, all this stuff.
It's amazing travel.
Also minimal, but some really good applications in here.
So Ben is one of my favorite applications for marketing,
where you've been pretty much.
Um, so wherever you're at in the world, you can say, I went
to this country, I went to this state, and you can get percentage
completions, which is really cool.
It's a free app.
Uh, geocaching, I'm a huge geo casher myself.
Uh, so along with the Adventure Labs, the geocaching here is one
of my favorite things to go find.
Geocache.
I've been doing it for over a decade.
Google Maps, apple Maps, you gotta have 'em.
Uh, Marriott, stay at Marriott's, uh, park my car on occasion.
Then Peak Finder, peak Finder's, one of my favorite applications of all time.
That's why I still have it on my phone.
I think it's a paid app maybe, but it's totally worth it.
Basically what it lets you do is hold up your phone and then see all
of the mountain ranges and buttes and everything like that, wherever
you're at, and I'll do an overlay.
Fantastic.
Uh, and then that's it.
I have a test flight app, and there we go.
That's so I did.
That is every single app on my iOS device.
Yeah, it's pretty minimal.
I don't really have very much on there.
Like I said, I try to keep it.
Just because I wanna stay focused on where I'm at in the moment.
I don't have any games, anything like that.
I do spend a lot of time on the YouTube, on the Instagrams.
Uh, but beyond that, um, mostly I'd use my phone as a phone.
That's my plan most of the time.
I will say this though, I do put on.
and take off applications all the time.
Sometimes I'll put my different stock applications or financial applications
on there, take them on, take them off.
Uh, sometimes when different new social apps are coming out,
I try to delete everything if I can just cause I don't want it.
I want to get in and out of my applications.
Anyways.
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Uh, they also asked, I think, at the same time of what, what
apps I have on my Windows device.
I mean, I'm looking at my, my, my app drawer here.
It's vs.
Code terminal.
Um, what is this?
Uh, storage Explorer, ops Stream, deck Edge Visual Studio visor.
Pretty much it.
I mean, there's a bunch of Al Gato and other streaming apps,
but not a lot going on there.
But if you're interested in a deeper dive on what I got installed in
my different devices, let me know.
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