Just wanted to take a moment to introduce a project I have started. Project Cypress - a native Discourse client app for iOS.
It is currently in a very early development stage, and the first build is now available through TestFlight.
The first goal (proof of concept) was to support native rendering for most standard Discourse posts, and allow adding multiple communities. Current functionality is very limited, but I still wanted to make it available early on for those who might be interested. The app name/icon are just placeholders for now.
However, especially since you are not otherwise known to the community and have yet to earn its trust, wouldn’t it have been a good idea to publish the source? Is this on GitHub somewhere?
You are expecting users to install closed source, test code from an untrusted author (brand new meta account only 3 days old) that hasn’t yet even had to pass Appstore production deployment checks?
@merefield Thanks for the feedback! I wasn’t aware of these TestFlight scams, so that’s an understandable risk. The app is closed source, since I was thinking of adding some paid options in the future, to support app’s future development (I’m a sole developer).
For some context, I run a Discourse community for my other app (HomeHabit), which is one the main reasons I wanted to have a native client to use. Originally, I thought of doing this project a few years ago, however, Fig app was posted here around that time, so I just started using it instead. Now that Fig’s development has been abandoned, I decided to revisit this idea.
Let me look into this, seems like not getting expected response from the API. Thanks for trying it out!
Aside, is the app in light-mode for you by default? Is that default on your device? That might be a bug, since it should be always in dark-mode (for now, so it haven’t been tested in light mode yet).
