July 21, 2026. Evening until midnight.
Too many buttons
I did a pass of the BeStreak app. I think it has too many competing buttons right now. The weight input has the comparison button, and I had also built in that scale idea from ages ago. They both do the same thing. Do I really need all that extra imagery?
The way the dial was first designed, a pop-up opened with four or five dials for sets, reps and weight. I thought that’s too much. You only want the dial for one thing.
Press and pull
All I want is that you put your finger down on the dial next to the input for reps, and while your finger is held down, you pull up and it increases, you pull down and it decreases. So the dial shows up in an overlay next to your finger, connected to whatever input you’re moving.
In a loaded template the sets are fixed, so I thought, maybe a template can have an active set. You press on any set and it turns into normal inputs with dials, and the others gray out.
A second and third sweep
In the evening I made wholesale changes across the app. The converter had been turned into a rectangular pill with text, and I had it converted back to a round one. I removed the dynamic weight scale, because it’s too much.
Then I placed the round dial on every weight and measurement input. Some landed in awkward places and some didn’t appear, so I took screenshots with arrows pointing to where the dials should go. Inputting numbers is already easy, but this removes the need for a keyboard.
Lost in versions
I get a bit lost in it all. By the time Google Play Console reviews and accepts an upload, it’s been an hour, and in an hour you’ve made more changes, so you don’t know which version it is up to. It’s frustrating.
App Features Log: July 21, 2026
- Round dial on weight and measurement inputs: press, then pull up or down
- Loaded templates get an active set with dials
- Dynamic weight scale removed
- Converter restored to a round chip
Photos from today
Read what happens next in the dev diary: the next entry.
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