I opened the official Twitter app does about two minutes and quickly had to go back to Tweetbot to restore my sanity. #trash
@jws oh, right. Yeah that doesn't exist. Well… They do have a service which compiles iOS apps in the cloud if you've only got Windows.
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@jws the web app thing is newer due to Google's Progressive Web Apps. I'm not sure how sold I am on that.
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@jws dev tooling as in?
They do have Ionic Native --> https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/
This aims at giving you control over a lot of native features such as 3D touch, Action sheet, clipboard, Health, and Fingerprint…
// @bazbt3 @gtwilson
@jws apps. Apps, everywhere, by everyone!
Ionic 2 is a bit of a pain to learn, since it uses Angular 2 and Typescript cough cough Microsoft cruft cough.
But it's verryyyy rewarding to take the default Ionic examples, modify them a bit and throw them on your phone directly (or using the Ionic View app). Suddenly, that vast emptiness which you've only peered into, which is your phone's untapped potential, is open to you now.
I've got 2 apps which I use on and off - one for my liveblogging, which is just a form, and another which is a diary entry app. I'm working on a third app right now for my brother.
The best thing is that I don't need to bother with launching these apps if I want to use them personally. That's why I love coding in Ionic - it's quick to pick up and gets me using my phone for more than what's available in the app store.
// @bazbt3 @gtwilson
@gtwilson I have a policy towards not checking in anything after 12 midnight… :P
// @bazbt3 @jws
@b123400 I'd like to see some python tests. I write python automation for testing at my work, but we don't test the tests… :D :D
// @bazbt3 @jws @gtwilson