I’m exhausted. I’m relieved. I’m excited – Loose Leaf for iPad is finally available in the App Store!

If I had to pick only one of those emotions, it would be relief. After over 2 and a half years of development, I was beginning to doubt it’d ever be ready. Even in the weeks before launch, I fixed more bugs and found more new issues than I’d ever thought possible – the date kept getting pushed back, but here we are! Even the night before launch I still didn’t have a finished layout for the website, and Christi and I stayed up until midnight recording the demo videos for the site.

Over the next few weeks, I may write up some posts about how I built various features – scissors in particular was an interesting challenge, but for now I’m just thrilled it can be seen and used by more people than just me.

A few fun facts: before I started Loose Leaf,

• iOS6 was the new hotness
• I had never coded OpenGL
• I only knew that Bézier‘s were “curvy lines”
• I had never subclassed a UIGestureRecognizer

And today,

• I only support iOS7 and 8
• All of the drawing is rendered in OpenGL
• A large % of my codebase is optimizations for Bézier paths
• The vast majority of my UIGestureRecognizers are built from scratch

Clearly I had no idea what I was getting into.

You can get Loose Leaf now in the App Store: