{"id":2493,"date":"2022-07-05T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2022-07-07T11:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:34:29","slug":"kicking-off-a-mobile-app-in-mid-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2022\/kicking-off-a-mobile-app-in-mid-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking off a mobile app in mid-2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I went swimming in the Atlantic for a couple hours. With my Samsung phone in my pocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when I got an updated Android phone, I got an iPhone too. Time for some mobile app development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Here’s what I got through on the long weekend…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I briefly considered Flutter, Xamarin, and React Native to give me one code base for both systems. The guarantee of a smooth future using Apple and Google tooling won me over though. Boning up on two familiar systems outweighed learning a new one that will likely go out of fashion before long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

iPhone app development requires a macOS to publish to the app store. So I set up an OpenCore<\/a> VM on Proxmox, and my old MacBook Pro has risen from the ashes, virtualized<\/a>. Not trivial, not extremely difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Apple docs to set up a Swift 5.0 application<\/a> are great to get an initial UI going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The back end will consist of hitting my API and getting the JSON data needed to populate the UI data. The classic solution is Alamofire<\/a>. The modern iOS 15 solution is async\/await-aware variant of URLSession. A quick look<\/a> at iOS marketshare says 80% of users have iOS 15. I’ll pull the trigger and future-proof my work by going with the modern approach, which requires a recent version of iOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a couple libraries that might help (FreshOS\/Networking<\/a>, RealHTTP<\/a>) but keeping dependencies out is good too. I want to keep my mobile apps absolutely as simple as possible so I will use the simplest code I can (something like this<\/a>) to do a modern JSON API pull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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