98: Elixir in the iOS App Store with Dominic Letz

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 Elixir Slack's desktop channel Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!