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applin-ios reviews and mentions

• FastUI: Build Better UIs Faster
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2024

  > Beyond Python and React ... Implementing frontends for other platforms like mobile ...

  Shameless plug: I built a mobile version of this: https://www.applin.dev

• Strada Released
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023

  I built a thing that makes it much simpler to make apps: https://www.applin.dev

  You make a web server that returns JSON defining your UI. Then you make a native iOS app by copy/pasting the provided Main.swift file and adding the URL of your server. The app uses an iOS client library, fetches the JSON page definition, and builds/updates the page with native widgets. I'm planning to eventually build Android, web, and desktop clients.

• Applin™ Server-Driven UI Framework for Mobile Apps
  1 project | /r/programming | 17 Sep 2023
• Applin Server-Driven UI for Mobile Apps
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2023
• Show HN: Applin – define mobile UI in server code
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2023

  Hi HN, I'm a backend engineer who made an app and didn’t like the tools. Then I made the thing I needed: a mobile app toolkit for backend engineers. I'm calling it Applin™. :)

  https://www.applin.dev/

  How it works: You make an HTTP server that returns JSON objects that define page content. Then you make a mobile app that calls the server and renders the pages using native widgets. Applin is the server and client libraries that make this easy.

  Server libraries: Currently there's Rails https://rubygems.org/gems/applin-rails and https://github.com/leonhard-llc/applin-rails-demo . Which languages shall I add next?

  Client libraries: Currently there's iOS https://github.com/leonhard-llc/applin-ios . Which platform shall I add next?

  They say, if you're not embarrassed by the quality, then you're launching too late. Applin is usable and not yet pretty and not yet comprehensive. I need customer feedback on priority and requirements.

  To try it out right away, use https://apps.apple.com/us/app/applin-tester/id6464230000 and tap the rails-demo link.

  The hardest part of this project was making the client update the page without losing keyboard focus and scrolling to the top. To do that, the code must pick the correct existing widgets for each new version of the widget tree. The current (working) version performs five passes over the widget tree: first picking focused widgets and their ancestors, then focus-able widgets, then other stateful widgets, then widgets with matching attributes (label, URL, etc.), and finally former siblings of the correct type. Then it creates any new widgets. Now that it has widgets for the new tree, the code updates the widget tree without removing any sub-widget that will be added again. This prevents losing keyboard focus and prevents resetting scroll positions. Here's the code:

  https://github.com/leonhard-llc/applin-ios/blob/main/Sources/ApplinIos/page/widget_cache.swift

  Please try out Applin, use it at your company (buy a license), and let me know what features to build first! Post a comment here, add a GitHub issue, or email me at [email protected] .

  To get updates, join https://groups.google.com/g/applin-announce .

  Thanks for reading! :) --Michael

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