Reckoner Update October 2024
A couple of small updates and additional work is being done to get Reckoner into the iOS App Store.
🚢 Releases
There were a few small releases this month centered around fixing pieces of functionality I have encountered which needed small fixes. The majority of the issues I see involve the synchronization service. The other big change is that I now have a arm64 build of Reckoner and it is available on Flathub!
At least the people currently using the application besides myself probably just use it on a single device. Most of the issues I have received from other users center around single device use on Android.
📱 Application Store Releases
I’m still working on getting this released to iOS. It turns out that the reason I was having issues is that my version of Xcode was out of date. It’s funny that the Mac OS App Store doesn’t really auto update apps like they do on mobile. Even the Linux distros I used would support auto updates or remind me better than Mac OS… On the plus side, Reckoner is now available in Mac OS app store.
Additionally, the DMG on the releases tab will now install without a security warning!
😪 App Stores Suck
Releasing an app on the iOS app store is an exercise in patience. I understand that they want to maintain a high quality for apps released there, but I really wish they did have a “lower” tier so people could release indie projects more easily. On Android we have alternatives like F-Droid and Obtainium for people to get the application through alternative means. On iOS, your pretty much SOL unless you feel like doing a lot of workarounds to manually install an IPA file.
I’m beginning to understand why most FOSS projects are just going with a web app. No fuss, no company telling you if you can or can’t release the app. It’s just that the web app still have performance tradeoffs and even more security confinement issues. For Reckoner, the database just isn’t as performant as it is on native platforms and web workers are harder to use than most other languages multithreading paradigm.