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Julian
Been vaguely keeping an eye on this; still waiting for an iOS version before I upgrade (a majority of my use is on the iPhone). Is there any news on this?
Fergal Armstrong
Hello. I just wanted to add my support for any release of Soulver for iOS. I understand that's hard to do and you have to do what's right for you, but if you can make it happen I would pay the same price as any Mac app. I'm lucky enough to have access to the old version of Soulver for iOS still and I use it every day, so I know I would get my money's worth. Thanks for reading and best of luck.
Zac
Fergal Armstrong: Appreciate the support Fergal.
Zac
I love the iPad. I love Soulver. I dream about Soulver 3 on the iPad. Soulver for Mac is written in AppKit but iPad apps are written in UIKit. Every time I try to develop on both AppKit and UIKit simultaneously my coding brain turns to mush. A dedicated UIKit engineer would solve the problem, but unfortunately Soulver earns only just enough to support one dedicated employee right now. So unless something changes on that front, the plan is to first perfect Soulver 3 for Mac feature-wise, and then do the same for the iPad.
Zac
Once a UIKit version of Soulver is written, it's worth at least having a look at how much worse Soulver as a Catalyst app is vs the AppKit one. SwiftUI might be Soulver ready in a couple of years and I'll be able to recreate Soulver's UI layer in a couple of days.🙂
Zac
Catalyst may produce passable Mac apps these days, but it has a lot of limitations that AppKit doesn't have. Catalyst was really designed for existing UIKit codebases to be used on the Mac without too much work, accepting these limitations as a tradeoff. Soulver tries to push the envelope of what's possible on the Mac and be a best in class Mac app. These, I am presently convinced, should still be written in AppKit (and eventually, SwiftUI).
Zac
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An iPad version of Soulver 3 is planned and in development.
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Adam Menges
Zac: Looking forward to this! Thanks!