TrafficCamNZ for Mac

Same imagination, New internals - 95% rewritten in Swift - with increased reliability and improved User Experience

• Single-click for full screen, double-click to refresh, right-click for context menu.
• Intuitive drag & drop to export images or reorder cameras (in the list screen).
• Smart tooltips and discoverable controls throughout.
• Eliminated confusing keyboard shortcuts in favor of natural Mac interactions.

Revolutionary Auto-Refresh System

• Beautiful countdown progress ring shows exactly when next refresh occurs.
• Elegant segmented controls for instant interval selection (15s, 30s, 1m, 5m).
• Click progress ring to cycle through intervals, long-press for custom timing.
• Smart scheduling prevents network overlo.

Pixel-Perfect Layout Engine

• Content-aware layout adapts dynamically to your camera count.
• Dramatically improved performance and responsiveness.

Enhanced CloudKit Integration

• Complete migration to modern CloudKit architecture.
• Improved memory management and faster startup times.
• Seamless synchronization with TrafficCamNZ iOS app.

Smart Image Processing

• Intelligent disk caching with background processing.
• Fresh image guarantee ensures current road conditions.
• Error image caching and optimized network operations.
• Modern layer backing for smooth visual performance.

Quality Polish

• Modern visual design with smooth animations throughout.
• Enhanced right-click context menus with instant actions.
• Redesigned splash window with rich text formatting.
• Professional appearance that feels truly native on macOS.

Technical Excellence

• Enhanced Swift-Objective-C interoperability.
• Improved memory management and performance optimization.
• Maintained existing data and workflows.

Enhanced CloudKit Integration - Complete migration to modern CloudKit architecture for improved reliability and performance

• Improved Stability - Eliminated app crashes and launch delays through async Core Data initialization.
• Better Memory Management - Optimized image processing and network operations to prevent memory leaks.
• Seamless iOS Sync - Enhanced cross-device synchronization with TrafficCamNZ iOS app using shared CloudKit container.
• Faster Startup - Streamlined initialization process for quicker app launch and camera display.
• Reduced Background Activity - Optimized CloudKit sync notifications to improve battery life and performance.

Image handling performance improvements - The implementation balances performance optimization with the absolute requirement for fresh traffic camera images, ensuring users always see the most current road conditions.:

• Inteligent disk caching.
• Background image processing.
• Error image caching.
• Modern layer backing.
• Fresh image guarantee.

Drag and Drop on the camera list screen to reorder the cameras. Select the featured cameras checkbox at the top of the screen - drag and drop to reorder.

Significant improvement in image refresh visual performance.

Added visual countdown for auto refresh.