Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a Flutter mobile app for my discourse community for the past 3-4 months. Was wondering if anyone else is interested in using Flutter to build a mobile application for their Discourse Community. Ask me any questions below. :slight_smile:

I’d like to have more information about that.

It would be great to see more development on this. I’m curious why there isn’t a native app. Developers could create one and monetize it, either with a one-time purchase or a subscription. I’d be willing to pay for either option. Simple tasks, like saving an image posted on forums, are incredibly di…

[image] catchthewavecoke: I’m curious why there isn’t a native app But there is? Whitelisted Discourse app with Push Notifications via OneSignal (good solution as uses Web View allowing most plugins and theme components to work but needs yearly maintenance) The official ‎Discourse Hub App -…

[image] Max: saving an image posted on forums, are incredibly difficult on iOS Safari Really, how? I’m just wondering because I’m doing that almost daily basis without any hazzles.

Thanks for the links, Robert. I’ll check out Lexicon. I was intentional in not equating PWAs with native apps. While PWAs offer great flexibility, they don’t match the performance and functionality of natively compiled code. Regarding plugins, you make a good point. My focus is more on achieving t…

[image] Max: I would support the Discourse developers The issue here is that such group is still way too small. But sure, I may be wrong too, it happends every now and then :winking_face_with_tongue: But out there isn’t that many forums where userbase is that massive there users would be will…

This is happening on iOS (I haven’t tried it on Android yet). When I try to hold down on an image to save it, the image just goes full screen and the UI disappears. I don’t know how to go back, so I end up killing the app and starting over. There’s a download function, but it also just makes the im…

It may be best to create a separate topic for that specific issue. :+1:

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Matt_Hamburger (Matt Hamburger) March 28, 2024, 12:18pm 2

@harithwick I am interested in the Flutter app. Is it open source, I would love to contribute. I am interested in creating a flutter plugin to make it easy to add Discourse to apps.

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