Mobile & Desktop App

[trymeouteh]

Please consider making an optional app for desktop and mobile to use Chitchatter which can have the additional features

• Multiple Profiles
• Temporary Profiles (Uses to join a new room and once you leave, profile is deleted)
• Custom name setting (Set your custom name for newly made profiles in the settings)
• Custom avatar setting (Set your custom avatar for newly made profiles in the settings)
• Choose default server (Set your custom server URL for newly made rooms in the settings, and add other servers as favorites)
• Choose server/URL when going to new room or creating new room

I would highly recommend making the app using Tauri or Flutter.

• Tauri
  • Compiles to Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS
  • Apps are written in HTML/CSS and JS/TS (Great for web apps)
  • Lightweight
  • Secure
  • Simular to electeon (More lightweight, mobile support)
• Flutter
  • Compiles to Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS
  • Uses dart programming language
  • Compiles to native code

I think Tauri is the way to go since Chitchatter is written in HTML/CSS and JS/TS and can be easily modified to run in Tauri without having to re-create the UI in another programming language.

[jeremyckahn]

Thanks for the suggestion @trymeouteh!

• Multiple Profiles

• Temporary Profiles (Uses to join a new room and once you leave, profile is deleted)

• Custom name setting (Set your custom name for newly made profiles in the settings)

• Custom avatar setting (Set your custom avatar for newly made profiles in the settings)

• Choose default server (Set your custom server URL for newly made rooms in the settings, and add other servers as favorites)

• Choose server/URL when going to new room or creating new room

I think these could all be present in the web app. There's nothing that seems native-specific about these features.

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In terms of making a native app at all, I'm currently leaning towards not doing this. Unless there's a feature that Chitchatter should but can't offer as web app, it keeps development much simpler (which enables more rapid delivery of improvements), so I'd prefer to keep it that way for now. Chitchatter is already set up as an installable PWA, so users are already able to effectively use it as an installed, native app.