Can you compile Electrum for iOS? (kivy, build)

[igorgue]

Hi,

Since Electrum uses Kivy I was wondering if it's possible or what are the limitations to compile on iOS?

https://kivy.org/doc/stable/guide/packaging-ios.html

Apologies if this has been asked before, I couldn't find it.

[SomberNight]

You mean "for" iOS, right? (to build an app that runs there)

We haven't tried. For a long time, kivy only supported python2, so there was no point to try then -- and since then no one had the time. You are welcome to try though, and share notes or open a PR if you get it working.

@akshayaurora

[johnnynanjiang]

Hi @SomberNight,

Is there any reason that the iOS version hasn't been talked about much or planed, as there is an Android version for Electrum.

[SomberNight]

There is some discussion in https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/8563. It is not clear if reproducible builds would be possible at all, which is a hard requirement. Besides, the regular contributors and maintainers are already spread pretty thin, and don't really use Apple products anyway. If someone is willing to step up and contribute long term for this, that might change things.