Why are there so few open source weather apps for iOS, compared to the very many that are on Android? (lemmy-u6723.vm.elestio.app)

submitted 1 year ago by spiritedpause@lemmy-u6723.vm.elestio.app to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] Jumper775@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Not completely true. The best by far is xcode, but swift is open source so if you develop your own toolkit instead of SwiftUI and replace all other proprietary *Kit then any old computer can do it. You can also use (usually cross platform) frameworks which have already done all of this like react native which makes it really easy to do in other OSes, however you will still only get the best experience using native libraries which can only be built from Xcode on a Mac. Maybe darling will open the doors to running that on Linux one day though!

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 1 year ago

Are you sure about this? Even if you build in Flutter or RA, you still need a Mac or a cloud service Mac to build for devices.

[-] Jumper775@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

I’ve done some limited research, and it should be possible to build from anything if you don’t use any apple specific cpu features or frameworks etc. that being said, that will be a pretty bad experience so I assume these services require a Mac for that reason. I could be wrong about react native though, only found one questionable source that said you could.