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Eugen Rochko

Being able to build the official Mastodon app for iOS in xcode and play around with it in an emulator to the see the results of weeks of UX and engineering work is a pretty amazing feeling

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Occultist Warlock

@Gargron are you looking for any TestFlight beta users 🤓

Occultist Warlock

@Gargron I know you and the team are going to crush it! Thank for all you’ve done, and I wish you (guys) the best of luck! 🤓

oshy

@Gargron You can't make a Mastodon App for iOS now! I'm already in love with Toot!!

Joking aside, I'm very excited to see what you do! Especially how it runs on iPad!

Eugen Rochko

@ocean As someone who has been using Toot! since it came out and is currently still using it, I hope the new app will be better

That being said, iPad is not on the target list for the MVP. Sorry!

oshy

@Gargron Toot is really awesome and I love the trans flag icon choice too 🏳️‍⚧️

*weeps widdle iPad tears*
Ipad one is eventually coming though right?

Wrecked ball

@Gargron um i found a friend here thnx to u but when is official ios app launching??

William Swartzendruber

@Gargron That's going to clash with multiple sections of GPLv3. One section forbids applying further restrictions to distributed software, which Apple does. Another section forbids deployment to locked hardware, which iOS devices are.

Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎

@Gargron Hey, you going to add direct support for APNs to the Mastodon code base or will you use the relay approach?

Eugen Rochko

@WAHa_06x36 It's still going to be a Web Push API relay

Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎

@Gargron All right, makes sense. It's more flexible with the client keys, and it's been working surprisingly well for me with minimal resource usage.

Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎

@Gargron Also, what do you think about adding support for cancelling notifications? Now that there is the mark unread functionality in the web UI too, it might make sense to kill notifications that have been marked as read? Doable?

Eugen Rochko

@WAHa_06x36 Do you mean somehow sending a cancel event through the Web Push API to hide notifications that have been marked as read on another device?

Dag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎

@Gargron Yeah. APNs supports it at least and I vaguely recall seeing something about it in the Web Push spec?

Eugen Rochko

@WAHa_06x36 I need to look into it but sounds like a good idea

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