mattermost-mobile VS OsmAnd

Mattermost, Inc. | Senior React Native Engineer | REMOTE (US Only) | Full-Time

At Mattermost we build an open core, chat and collaboration platform focused on making users with mission critical work more productive while also allowing our customers to self-deploy and have full control over their own data.

We’re looking for a Senior React Native Engineer who has the depth to significantly move the performance needle of our app while also having the breadth to contribute across our stack.

Check out our open source mobile codebase: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile. Meta uses the Mattermost RN app as the benchmark for performance testing of their Hermes JS engine: https://mattermost.com/blog/hermes-mattermost/. Want to set the bar for what a complex, high performing React Native app can do? Want to do it open source? Join our team!

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/mattermost/a38ea8f0-6c27-4178-a988-801...

I've got as far as downloading the mattermost apps: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile/releases/tag/v2.3.0 and have been using fastlane/match but i haven't been able to build it or run it in xcode.

Mattermost has a few products/versions, i used the selfhosted enterprise version because its also MIT licensed, so free of charge and also very well documented. It may not well suited for business projects, features are build for technical teams/projects. - Features: https://mattermost.com/pricing - Deployment Options: https://mattermost.com/download/#server - Mobile Apps for both worlds: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile An other very special app, focused on productmanagement, https://www.documize.com . Never had a scope for to use it in productive, but may match!? :)

Mattermost Beta (version 1.55.1): Secure, self-hosted workplace messaging

This was the first commit on a clean, orphaned branch on our mattermost-mobile repo. This commit kicked off the work on mobile v2. At that time — some of you may not have been born yet (or not yet born into Mattermost — which would include yours truly) — it had become clear a bit of a reset was required. Mobile v1 had grown organically, as many products have, out of a proof-of-concept. Some fundamental design decisions (like only supporting a single server, or how state management works) were foundational limitations and effectively impossible to fix iteratively. A more hard cut had to be made. Not a full rewrite per se, but close. This work kicked off inside of the mobile team, but after about a year also started to include a whole slew of engineers across the organization, as well as product and UX.

On the mobile platform end, as we’re getting closer to the mobile v2 GA we’re trying to pull our weight to shipping this thing on time. Hardcore style. We’ve now added support for announcement banners (allowing us to broadcast our new levels of extreme hardcoreness), and we will soon allow you to share how extremely hardcore fans you are of v2, with an in-app review dialog. We have also integrated Sentry, so we will have more insight into how the app is performing and when it crashes, hardcore. And last but not least, the work on a nice piece of share sheet is heading toward Android (previously only implemented on iOS).

Notes from the latest multi-product architecture sync-up. On the mobile platform end, an early look at how we’re trying to measure performance and performance regressions in the future (video). We’re closer to integrating Sentry. Search just got merged and should go out with the next (internal) beta (which should release today) — the platform team is covering this functionality with end-to-end tests.

On the mobile platform end, we’re going to try something new: a weekly mobile hangout (in the public ~Developers: Mobile channel of course, using Calls) on Mondays. The goal is to have a casual “drop in and out as you like” type of environment. Some of our mobile engineers will be there, if you like to talk about mobile development, are stuck somewhere, or would like to share your love of dynamic islands — this will be the opportunity. We’re also pushing three initiatives forward: automated performance testing (channel: ~Client Performance Automation) in collaboration with the web platform team, Sentry Integration and the “single command” installer for development environments. On the latter topic, we polled people last week. We’ll create a prototype of the “single binary” (written in Go) option.

Mattermost Beta: Open source platform for developer collaboration

> Google maps and Waze does not allow for setting vehicle height

As a side note, OsmAnd supports setting vehicle height* and has support for multiple vehicles/routing profiles: https://osmand.net

*: and weight, width, and length

Slightly offtopic

I have OsmAnd ( https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd ) on my phone, download the basemaps, download my (small) country data (both sourced from open street maps), and with an app + ~1GB of data, I get the maps and full navigation within my country, POIs, etc., and can add other countries when needed.

Is there something similar for a PC? I can download data from open street maps, but then I need postgres, postgis, a tile server and styles and apache running just to generate the tiles. Is there anything portable (short of running osmand in an android virtualbox) for offline navigation on a linux pc? QGIS can display vectors, but I wasn't able to easily style the data... navigation is a no-go there too. anything else?

OsmAnd works for me. I am looking to get off Google, so I try to retire anything that is not on F-Droid. OsmAnd is a independent project ( osmand.net ) that uses the data you can also access under www.openstreetmap.org . The App is not perfect and sometimes it calls for the wrong action, for example when a road is just taking a steep turn it might ask for you to turn onto a different road which is actually the same every now and then. Also Google uses the location data of it's users to change routes depending on congestion afaik. Don't expect that from OsmAnd.

Organic Maps & OsmAnd~ are the classic map alternatives but i don't use them.

When I am on a flight and the flight does not provide the flight information, I am using the OsmAnd, https://osmand.net/, to monitor the flight altitude, speed and direction.

Regarding usage of OpenStreetMap over Google Maps - assuming we're talking mobile usage - you might give OSMAnd[0] a try. I've been using it exclusively on a Pixel loaded with GrapheneOS for a few months now. I would never consider going back to GMaps and I don't feel that I've lost anything either.

[0] - https://osmand.net/

OsmAnd~ (version 4.5.8): Global Mobile Map Viewing & Navigation for Offline and Online OSM Maps

OSMAnd tracks users using a secret supercookie by default because the developer wants metrics. This is done without consent. The defensiveness of the developer with regards to such unethical tracking means that I will never use any software they ever release.

https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/15058

OSMand: https://osmand.net/