A Native Mobile iOS+Android Client App for Discourse

[nicolsdennis]

What does Discourse look like as a native app ?

DemoPreview

A custom built composer like no other.

#StayTuned

[gilles]

That’s really great

Is it compatible with plugins?

[nicolsdennis]

For now only support official Discourse plugins, working on integrating calendar plugin right now.

[kairo162]

This actually looks dope. Where can I find it?

[gilles]

Be patient, it’s not available yet

[nicolsdennis]

I’ve not published to the stores, so this lives on my dev device right now. And the screens are just previews, to get feedback and not promos as i’m not endorsed by meta in anyway.

The app was originally made for my community that I shared last month, I made a few slight changes to support other forums and gave the app a separate name for those who actually might want a native discourse client app that has almost all the web features integrated.

However some feature won’t work out of the box for some forums since I’ve got a plugin which needs to accompany the app itself, so self hosted users benefit and discourse.group get varied support as they won’t have native login, push notifications or my custom story mode on the app homescreen.

If you’d like to see how it looks with your forum share your url and if you want a login preview you’d need to add the app scheme to your site

All site Settings >> Allowed user API auth redirects

Forum Link: https:// forum-url/auth_redirect
Scheme: sysaru://auth_redirect

[nicolsdennis]

Ive reviewed and followed a lot of suggestions and went a bit further, with full multiforum support, with active forum switching. Post navigator to replace timeline scrolling, new immersive comments (social+nested replies) and added more blocks to the composer.

All forums who utilized the Sysaru App Engine plugin will get native push notifications, video thumbnail support for story mode and posts.

Posts have been updated to support cooked transaltions only Chat and user cards are not translated as Discourse doesn’t natively support it. In an addition to Discourse translations the app text has been translated into the 49 locale languages that discourses natively supports.

Stay tuned…

[nicolsdennis]

While i focused heavily on sorting posts from all to new, I introduced a new method of post navigation to be leaner, smoother, and quicker so you can follow conversations without long list scrolling.