- The main dining location information is now cached on download.
- The freshness of the cache is checked whenever it's loaded, and if the last refreshed date is not today's date then it's dropped and the app refreshes from the API normally.
- This reduces load times if you open the app multiple times a day. The data won't change during the day, so you can load it the first time and then use the cache the rest of the time.
- Refreshing via pull to refresh or the refresh button still refreshes the cache from the server.
- Added a background refresh task.
- TigerDine now registered a background fetch task with the device that will update the location information up to a maximum of 4 times per day. The cache is checked first, so a new request will only be made if the cache is stale.
- This allows for automatic notification scheduling at times other than when the app is launched. As long as background tasks can run, notifications will be automatically scheduled when necessary.
- Depending on the timing, this may allow you to never see any load times in TigerDine, since the cache might already be up to date before you use the app for the first time in a day.
- Started adding widgets!
- TigerDine now offers an hours widget that lets you put the hours for a specified location on your home screen, along with a visual indicator of when that location is open today.
- The widget automatically feeds off of TigerDine's cache, so hey, no extra network requests required!
- This widget currently DOES NOT support multi-opening locations like Brick City Cafe or Gracie's. This is still a work in progress.
- The favorites model now lives inside of the base dining model, since it was only ever used in places where the main dining model was also available and is only relevant when the dining model is available.
- Removed unnecessary instances of models that were going unused.
- Moved the favorite/map/menu buttons in the top right of the DetailView into the right side toolbar.
- This frees up a good bit of space at the top of the DetailView and looks cleaner, especially with iOS 26's new toolbar style.
- Actually added a copyright string to the about screen.
More refactors, both internally and for the UI, will be coming soon.
