Our company has native apps for iOS and Android. One of our goals is to bring people back to our apps frequently, and to spend a lot of time in our apps. (The app stores seem to prioritize apps that get a lot of usage.) We have a pretty solid Discourse forum, but currently we just link out to the f…

[image] sam: and that we are considering killing the Android app) is cause opening a Chrome Tab is slow compared to PWA, so people prefer the PWA. As long as you ensure that it works with Firefox as well is can also solve [image] hellekin: some people do not have a Google account Disc…

[image] sam: My recommendation here for you @dfabulich is to hold tight for a month or 2 while we redo our protocol and improve documentation. Checking back in on this! What’s the story here?

Delegated auth is in, and our new login flow is pretty rock solid on the app. The protocols are all open.

[image] codinghorror: You could certainly consume the Discourse API in the native apps to grab Discourse notifications. Can you give me a pointer to documentation on this?

This is our current spec: [image] User API keys specification Integrations Discourse contains a system for generating API keys per user if a very specific protocol is followed. This feature facilitates “application” access to Discourse instances without needin…

This happens from time to time, we maintain a handful of white labeled apps for customers. Unfortunately the cost though of going down this path is enormous. I would say… consider going down this path if you have say a 20k USD a year budget to build/maintain/debug.

I’ve just be working on such a project, but yea the public repo is out of date. If you’d like me to help you you can hire me.

@sam thanks for the words of caution here, as I am just about to embark on this project. I was encouraged to see the discourse hub seems to already do this - why do you anticipate such a high cost? I was imagining you just need to get the webview and authentication working, then notifications is a …

[image] James Cribbs: Is there something I am not anticipating that will cause a lot of work / updates? Historically I have seen how much effort has gone into the trivial web view discourse hub. On the surface it is “easy” but then you need to worry about 1000 little details. Shrink panel …

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James_Cribbs (James Cribbs) May 14, 2022, 7:20pm 13

Very curious where this landed. Has anyone been able to embed discourse into their mobile app via webview and take advantage of notifications?

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