We built native iOS and Android apps for Discourse forums

[Decorbuz]

@Aa7

Our primary business model is different from both of theirs (Fig is individual user only, no branded apps, and Lexicon doesn’t have a business model but they said they could be potentially hired to build things out). In both cases, we have been closely watching for any further app or repo updates - and we haven’t seen any in years/months. We thought about this, and we think our model will let us support multiple versions of Discourse, and keep increasing the supported feature surface area, including plugins, over time, and most importantly, provide confidence to community owners that the apps they set up through us will be around to support and grow with them.

Thanks for providing such a detailed response!

Both Fig and Lexicon appear to have been abandoned (at least from a support perspective), so it’s great to hear that you folks are immediately committed to providing support for your customers/users.

Maybe check out this topic for some guidance. See you around!

What's the best advice for native app requests?

This comes up repeatedly and I’d love to hear some opinions about best advice. My understanding right now: There’s the official Discourse app for mobile. It’s actually a hub, it let’s you sign in to various Discourse instances and enables push notifications for those on your mobile device. You’ll browse the actual sites using the mobile web version: Then there’s an independent iOS app with the same site manager approach, but the forum interfaces are coded natively. It seems to be out of act…