iOS TestFlight/CI

[AidanTheBandit]

The feature

I’ve been searching for a client for iOS and I found MissCat but it’s severely out of date and not translated. Is there any plans of porting Kaiteki to iOS?

Designs

Same as android probably

Resources

No response

[Craftplacer]

Kaiteki is on Flutter and it's insanely easy to port to iOS, since it literally only requires adding build workflows.

But since Apple is Apple, the problem is this:

• I need macOS running to verify that Kaiteki successfully builds for iOS
• I would need to pay for the Developer Program in order to publish to the App Store
  • I'm not sure if uploading IPA files is enough (I use everything but Apple obviously)

As an alternative right now, I suggest using the web/PWA version of Kaiteki over at kaiteki.craftplacer.moe. Although I have noticed it's not starting anymore, so I have to get that fixed first.

[Craftplacer]

I don't mind someone doing the work required for building Kaiteki to macOS/iOS.

[AidanTheBandit]

Ok. Would building in a MacOS VM work? I have a VM running the newest version of MacOS that I could use to compile

[Craftplacer]

Anything that runs macOS should work. You can take a look at https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/ios for instructions on how to get iOS builds going for Kaiteki. If you're completely new to using Flutter, check out https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/macos as well.

[AidanTheBandit]

Ok. Thanks for the help. Tomorrow I'll try to get this working

[Craftplacer]

Any updates?

[AidanTheBandit]

I'm working on redoing the MacOS VM install since I accidentally bricked it

[AidanTheBandit]

@Craftplacer i got it to compile but since I don’t have a developer license I don’t think I’ll be able to test it. I used the site Codemagic to compile it

[Craftplacer]

Did you try things like https://altstore.io/ ?

[AidanTheBandit]

Yes but I can’t seem to get it to load onto my phone since the file needs to be an IPA. I’m looking into other ways of turning the file into an IPA

[AidanTheBandit]

@Craftplacer Good news! I think I can get this side loaded onto my phone with troll store. I am going to try later today

[Craftplacer]

Alright, let me know how it goes.

[jaredallard]

I’m happy to provide macOS CI through CircleCI and a developer program license once this is figured out :)

[Craftplacer]

GitHub Actions offer macOS runners, the questions is how to trigger an entire build through CLI and what files to deploy/upload.

[AidanTheBandit]

So after trying for a while TrollStore says that no app exists and AltStore pretty much says the same. I think I might actually just need to get a Mac mini or something

[jaredallard]

I'll give this a shot then, since I have mac hardware at the moment, will update soonish 👀