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Comment by denysvitali | Hacker News Reader

Looks cool, but why is it only available for iOS?

As someone who develops for iOS and Mac, I sometimes ask: why put in the effort of making it cross platform? Most Apple users are happy in their ecosystem, and they pay for apps. Android would not allow for developing in Xcode and Swift, and also the users don't really pay for apps. It's well known that the Play Store environment is pretty much horrific for the indie developer trying to make a buck.

I used to work for a team doing app matching, finding apps that exists in both ecosystems and yes, most IOS apps which didn't have a match were more used than Android apps with no match

> Android would not allow for developing in Xcode and Swift

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/xcode_plugin.html https://developer.android.com/studio/build/building-cmdline https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Android.md https://blog.readdle.com/why-we-use-swift-for-android-db449f...

As you can see, it's a thing; hope this helps!

> It's well known that the Play Store environment is pretty much horrific for the indie developer trying to make a buck.

Yeah, Google Pay taking 30% per transaction isn't very helpful and some people choose to distribute their app outside of the Google Play Store to get around that on Android.

Yes, but I feel that this context is a little bit different: here the assumption is that both partners (or tuples) have iOS, which is probably pretty rare (at least from my experience, EU based)

Agree, this is definitely a use case where multi platform is a big plus since the whole idea is to share data.

Might use iCloud for data storage, which allows the developer to shift hosting / storage costs to the user.

Hi denysvitali - we are developing the android version as we speak :)

Does that means sharing between ios and android as well?

Yes!

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