98: Elixir in the iOS App Store with Dominic Letz

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 10 May 2022 04:15:00 -0600

Dominic Letz did something I thought was impossible. He got an Elixir application packaged up, approved, and available through the Apple App Store on iOS devices. The application runs Elixir on the device, creates a web view, and hosts Phoenix LiveView pages. They went further and created a bridge to integrate with more of the platform specific features of the device. Is Android your preferred platform? They have it running there as well and in the Google Play Store. We talk about how it works, challenges overcome, and where it is now. They also created several Github projects that show how to do this yourself to create a cross-platform desktop application and apps for Apple and Android mobile devices. Very cool! They want your help to make it even better.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/98

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1521381183229210624 – Mint now has an official WebSocket client
https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint_web_socket
https://github.com/NFIBrokerage
https://github.com/NFIBrokerage/slipstream
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1519377962063249409 – José Valim announced Dashbit is sponsoring part-time development of sonic_pi for the next 6 months
https://sonic-pi.net/ – Sonic Pi website
https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi – Sonic Pi project
https://github.blog/2022-04-29-bringing-code-navigation-to-communities/ – Github gave Elixir another shout-out in a recent blog post “Bringing code navigation to communities”.
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1519630932583632897 – The Nx project reaches two major milestones at the same time.
https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx
https://hex.pm/packages/exla – EXLA package now on Hex.pm
https://hex.pm/packages/torchx – Torchx package now on Hex.pm
https://twitter.com/robertoaloi/status/1520395745064542209 – WhatsApp's Erlang implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm is now open source
https://github.com/WhatsApp/waraft – WARaft is a Raft library in Erlang by WhatsApp. It provides an Erlang implementation to obtain consensus among replicated state machines.

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Discussion Resources

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/diode-drive/id1605222443 – Diode Drive iOS app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.diode.drive – Google Play listing
https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop
https://github.com/elixir-desktop/ios-example-app – iOS example app
https://github.com/elixir-desktop/android-example-app – Android example app
https://github.com/elixir-desktop/runtimes – Prepared runtimes for android and iOS devices.
https://github.com/elixir-desktop/bridge – Used by “desktop” - does native integrations
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/69 – Previous interview - episode 69
https://diode.io/diode%20drive/self-custody-for-data-22032/ – Why you should care about Self-Custody for data now
https://github.com/couchbaselabs/iErl14
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/81 – Elixir in a Burrito with Quinn and Digit
https://www.wxwidgets.org/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/DominicLetz – on Twitter
https://github.com/dominicletz/ – on Github
https://diode.io/ – Diode.io website
https://github.com/diodechain – Diode Github organization
Elixir Slack's desktop channel

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98: Elixir in the iOS App Store with Dominic Letz