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DECO — Unofficial DEV Community App

Andrei Iatsuk on November 16, 2022

Hello, my name is Andrey, I’m practicing Flutter developer. For a while I have been working on the useful project, in my opinion, and thrilled to s...
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Vincent A. Cicirello

I'm confused by this. Your post indicates there isn't a DEV community app. However, there actually is. In fact, there are 2 official apps. I've been using the DEV Community app on Android for a little over 2 years now. There is also the Forem app. Forem is the platform that DEV is built on. With the Forem app I believe that you can use DEV as well as other communities built on Forem. I haven't actually used the Forem app.

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DB

If there are two competing standards, let's build a third one.

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Andrei Iatsuk • Edited

Yes, it seams like PWA, maybe it’s some translation error) I meant that there are no apps, that community provides and etc.
My thing is to build more user friendly app

UPD: Not PWA, sorry, but simple native wrap on web view

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Also, the dev.to site itself used to be installable as a PWA... but for some bizarre reason they've chosen to remove that capability 😢

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Jon Randy 🎖️

The APK for the official (seemingly discontinued) dev.to app can be found here

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Andrei Iatsuk

Exactly, this is the reason I want to build a new app.

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Andy Piper

How could I try this on my iPhone?

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Andrei Iatsuk

Unfortunately, to install it on the iPhone I need a developer account, which I don't have at the moment. But there is also a second option, to build the application from source. This is not very difficult to do, if you are interested, I can help.

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Andy Piper

I cloned the repo but it obviously needs some additional setup to build in Xcode, would be great to understand what I need to do to get it compiled :-)

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Andrei Iatsuk

Thank you for your interest. I apologize at once, it is not very nice just to send links, but with this format is difficult to fully tell and control what and how to do.
First, you need to download the Flutter SDK
docs.flutter.dev/get-started/insta...

Then you can you need to run flutter pub get to get all packages.

And then I believe this links will help
medium.com/front-end-weekly/how-to...

stackoverflow.com/questions/544445...

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aabdullin • Edited

#apple_add_support_for_apk_like_files

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Ishmamur Rahman

This is great. I didn't know I needed this app untill I installed it. At first I thought 'why is there no login feature', but the fact that I can open any post from my browser in just one click, is great UX. Thanks Andrey! ❤️ A really nice job!

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Andrei Iatsuk

Thanks a lot! And this is just a beginning. Authorization and quick link open will be in future versions, I’ll post roadmap some later.
Stay tuned 😉