Building Presently for iOS

[alisonthemonster]

Users ask me all the time if there is an iOS version of Presently. At the moment there is not, but it doesn't have to be this way!

Presently is 100% open source and many features and contributions have come from users here on Github, if you are interested in building Presently for iOS please make yourself known here!

We would also love some iOS design love here to change some very Android-y components over to Human Interface Guidelines!

Some guidelines for the iOS app

• Fully open source
• Written in Swift and following modern architecture patterns (Clean, unidirectional, strong separation of concerns, etc)
• Tested!! Unit tests and ideally some sort of screenshot testing so the UI can be validated by a non-iOS dev would be fantastic
• Entries stored in app level local storage
• Crash reporting and analytics for monitoring app health and usage
• CI to ensure app builds on every commit and that tests pass and coverage is met
• Eventually full feature parity

Features listed in priority order:

• Time line with entries listed and hints to guide users to write for today and yesterday
• Entry screen to enter their gratitude
• Daily reminder notification
• Contact link to email us
• Privacy policy link to webview
• Terms + conditions link to webview
• OSS libraries list
• Calendar to jump days in the past
• Milestones in the timeline and dialogs to appear when milestones are acheived
• Export/Import to CSV
• Link to FAQ webview
• THEMES!
• Dropbox automatic backups in the background
• Biometric or PIN locking
• Search
• Small customizations to timeline + calendar (adding day of week, changing first day of week in calendar)

If this discussion gets enough interest I can go through and create a Kanban board and some more robust contribution rules and work out some timelines and plans!

Cheers to open source 🥂

[alisonthemonster]

Funny story, someone once totally ripped off Presently and wrote an iOS version. Had to contact Apple and get it removed!

It had lots of typos and the design was slightly off. Luckily a few friends noticed this and contacted me about it and we were able to get it removed quite quickly.
You can see in this screenshot they even copied the screenshots and I had for this repo! Sesame seeds and sushi rice 😆 They also copied the store listing exactly.

[polbins]

Hey! It's good to see that this is being considered!
I actually am using an iPhone as a daily driver nowadays so I'm not able to use Presently anymore.

I hope someone will take a lead on this one and I can help with integrating some of the features. :)

[peakvalleytech]

Hi Alison, glad to hear that you were able to deal justice.

I actually know some iOS development. I would be happy to get the ball rolling on this. How far have you gotten so far?

[alisonthemonster]

Hi there!
This is as far as I have gotten! Would love to get a github project started and create some issues there for tracking if we get enough traction!

[peakvalleytech]

Ok, i'll see if I can get a prototype up and running. Let me know when you set up the project, so I can send a PR.

[davidwilliston]

Why not use flutter?

[devandapaige]

I know it's been a while, but I'd be interested in helping in any way I can. This is honestly one of my favorite apps, and I'd love to help bring it to the iOS world. I'm still a baby dev, but shoot me a message if I can help!