LTT IOS app

[Bill_Shill]

I am learning how to code in Object-C and how to use Xcode. I want to try and make an LTT IOS app. If anyone is interested in helping me please DM me on discord or skype @ Bill#8322 or basil.shillingford2.

[LienusLateTips]

Didn't LMG say NO

[Bill_Shill]

Not sure

[Enderman]

Just now, JDE said:

Didn't LMG say NO

They said they aren't making an official one since the web version of this site is already very good.

 

People are free to make their own extensions/plugins/apps as long as they make it clear that it is not official.

[Bill_Shill]

O okay, thanks for the heads up

[LienusLateTips]

20 minutes ago, Enderman said:

They said they aren't making an official one since the web version of this site is already very good.

 

People are free to make their own extensions/plugins/apps as long as they make it clear that it is not official.

Ah...

20 minutes ago, Bill_Shill said:

Not sure

 

18 minutes ago, Bill_Shill said:

O okay, thanks for the heads up

Please please please quote next time. We will get a notification that way.

[Zando_]

21 minutes ago, Bill_Shill said:

O okay, thanks for the heads up

You should make it! I could help, except that it'd take me a few minutes just to figure out how to get Swift to print "Hello World" (I think it's pretty simple, but I don't remember. I never got far in my Swift course ☹️). And IDK how to get it to read the website and show notifications and such. Though if you need someone to brush up on their code and do some grunt work, fix spelling mistakes, etc, then I'm your man!

[Hazy125]

Just know that there have been 2 other real attempts at making an unofficial app, and 1 semi-official attempt from a free third party. None of which have come to fruition. But there is no code of conducty legal stuff stopping you from trying.

 

Oh Edit: There is no page or thread API, but you can access an RSS feed and there is an API for user notifications and the like at https://linustechtips.com/main/page/api.php

Edited June 24, 2017 by Hazy125

[Bill_Shill]

@Zando Bob DM me on discord on skype if you really want to help me do this.

[Zando_]

7 minutes ago, Bill_Shill said:

@Zando Bob DM me on discord on skype if you really want to help me do this.

I don't have Discord... ??? (what is it anyways?)

[MoVo]

17 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

I don't have Discord... ??? (what is it anyways?)

Discord is an alternative to Teamspeak, it's actually pretty cool. 

@Bill_Shill To reliably show the content of the forum inside a native iOS application, you'd need something like a rest API. Something that the LTT forum doesn't offer. To send notifications reliably you'd need a lot of server-side logic, you can't just use Swift for that. 

 

And as LMG already stated and I totally agree with that: The web version of the forum is already pretty good! So why would you waste your time and build an app for something, which is already pretty good? 

[Reflow]

What will the LTT IOS App have that the website doesn't ?

[vorticalbox]

On ‎24‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 9:31 AM, Hazy125 said:

There is no page or thread API, but you can access an RSS feed and there is an API for user notifications and the like at https://linustechtips.com/main/page/api.php

this basically will let you see if you have notifications but not their contents, without an official api to have a working app you would need to parse the html then display it in the app by then you really have to ask yourself it it is worth the time investment?

17 hours ago, Reflow said:

What will the LTT IOS App have that the website doesn't ?

push notifications? 

[Mira Yurizaki]

@AluminiumTech made a Windows Store app, but he went up and poofed so I don't know who else you could ask.

[Bill_Shill]

@ReflowIt would be the same

[Hazy125]

4 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

this basically will let you see if you have notifications but not their contents, without an official api to have a working app you would need to parse the html then display it in the app by then you really have to ask yourself it it is worth the time investment?

push notifications? 

The api was developed because it was significantly less strain on the LTT servers

[vorticalbox]

6 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

@AluminiumTech made a Windows Store app, but he went up and poofed so I don't know who else you could ask.

he left due to way he felt the LLT team handled certain discussions between them, the app is still very much alive but under project core tech, though the app just had YouTube videos of tech channels it doesn't interact with the forum at all. you can find them on github

 

https://github.com/ProjectCoreTech

 

I'm a developer for the electron version for desktop. 

 

@Hazy125 would be even less strain to return json for everything and let the client + angularJS handle displaying the content. 

 

 

[Guest]

On 6/24/2017 at 0:09 AM, Enderman said:

They said they aren't making an official one since the web version of this site is already very good.

 

People are free to make their own extensions/plugins/apps as long as they make it clear that it is not official.

In this day in age, it's mostly implied that if they don't say we'll pay you plz do this; it's unofficial and regardless of labeling the company can still sue for fraud or whatever other legal term for impersonation, or riding off their name. 

 

EDIT

Enderman posted a link stating unnoficial content is permitted, 

[Guest]

On 6/26/2017 at 2:54 AM, Reflow said:

What will the LTT IOS App have that the website doesn't ?

A pay wall

[Enderman]

9 hours ago, fpo said:

In this day in age, it's mostly implied that if they don't say we'll pay you plz do this; it's unofficial and regardless of labeling the company can still sue for fraud or whatever other legal term for impersonation, or riding off their name. 

They SAID that people are allowed to make their own unofficial stuff.

Here are a bunch of things people made ^

It is 100% ok.