Quick Pass v1.0 is now available on the App Store! Quick Pass is an application designed for system administrators who need to be able to quickly generate random passwords. You might use it when creating an account for instance.

Quick Pass was a bit of an experiment for me where I decided to develop and release an app all within one night. It took 2 hours 40 minutes over all and was accepted into the App Store within a few days. It was a fun experiment!

My first hurdle was to decide what application to code. I’d had a few ideas previously and thought that my idea for a password generator would be a fairly straightforward task to create within the evening. It’s not so much that I wanted to create a complicated app within the evening, but more to see just how quick a simple (but hopefully useful) app can be made. Quick Pass is designed to be a tool for system administrators to generate multiple passwords and then they can use these by either copying from the screen, or by emailing the generated passwords to themselves.

I started off with a fresh XCode project, using the navigation based application template. From here it was easy to make the code which handled the table to display the controls and passwords. I used UITableViewCells in Interface Builder to enable me to create the cells with a slider and the cell with buttons.

Well, basically, I managed to put it all together and submit using iTunes Connect in 2 hours and 40 minutes… not bad I thought! I’ll post again when I’ve heard back from Apple regarding release!