May 10, 2022

98: Elixir in the iOS App Store with Dominic Letz

47 minutes

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.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

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

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