Android App

lakshya

I want to develop an android app using flarum.......any idea?

xkeyC

Good idea.

To Simply, you can use webview, but it doesn't make much sense.

More complicated, use https://discuss.flarum.org/api to exchange data, and then realize everything.

huuduy216

xkeyC don't you have a Flutter project going on yourself? Maybe you could use an extra hand. Also, I believe we could crowd fund a project for this. A lot of people have asked about it.

lakshya

xkeyC Yes using web viewer is just of no use. Do u know anything about Kodular?

xkeyC

huuduy216 Maybe you could use an extra hand

This may be a good idea, but I lack the experience of working with others.

huuduy216 I believe we could crowd fund a project for this.

Yes, it is currently under development，But I can't guarantee whether I can make it to the satisfaction of everyone, so this is a question to be considered.

huuduy216

xkeyC This may be a good idea, but I lack the experience of working with others.

If there's will, there's a way. I am a software engineer myself, so I can help out with Android related stuff and other software engineering aspect such as project management, splitting tasks and cooperating too.
lakshya xkeyC let me know if you are interested. I saw @xkeyC app already and I would love to see it working ASAP, and I'm willing to support you in anyway I can

clarkwinkelmann

Can you share more details about what you're trying to accomplish?

There aren't that many options:

You want to embed discussion features in an app
- Use webview
- Create native frontend interacting with Flarum API
You want to integrate Flarum login and other custom features, but not discussions
- Create feature as a full Flarum extension, and embed with webview
- Create only the API side of the feature in Flarum, and implement the user interface in the app
  - Create custom login interface that interacts with the Flarum API to login, then use the token to interact using the REST API

If you're not going to use webviews, you will probably have a lot of work re-implementing every single feature of the Flarum frontend. You'll also have additional work for each community extension you want to use.