I'm not sure where to look at all for this question and the only thread that has anything to do with it is one from 2010 and is completely random. Is Lit ever going to get an iPhone app in IOS? I really like the android app but since I now have an iPhone I was just wondering if it would ever happen so that I dont have to use so much data running a browser to read on my phone. Idk
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Handley_Page
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Send a PM to Manu or perhaps Lauren.
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Laurel.
This happens occasionally. I wonder how often Lauren scratchers her head on being asked a question on why a story hasn't been posted.
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As a software engineer and IOS developer by trade, I would LOVE to build a LitErotica App.
I have all sorts of ideas for creating small games - a "Write the next paragraph" kind of back and forth between two members, with options for making the result public, that sort of thing.
I have all sorts of ideas for creating small games - a "Write the next paragraph" kind of back and forth between two members, with options for making the result public, that sort of thing.
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Does it Have To Be iOS, or can Android get a look-in too ?
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HP,
As the OP wrote, there already seems to be an Android App. A link to is on the front page - https://literotica.com/
Check it out in that middle paragraph on the page: "Do you have an Android phone? Please help us test the Literotica Android App."
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The official LIT Android app allows searching, reading, and rating, but not interactive commo like the game jezzaz suggested. The app also does not support comments.
I somewhere saw (and repeat) an estimate that half of LIT readers use the app, many exclusively. The app does not support HTML tags so authors can forget about underlines, italics, bolds, centers, etc. To see such fanciness, use an Android browser. But IMHO the app's strength is its ability to pre-load 11 stories / chapters to read when offline. I'm often disconnected when away from home. The app becomes my mini-library in the wilderness.
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A little education (not in a snarky way - genuine education).
Android natively works in a programming language called Java. IOS natively uses a different language called Objective C. (By "native", I mean the actual operating system is written using these languages. The device's operating system is meant to have apps written on it written in those languages.)
Now you don't have to code on Android or IOS in those languages, you can use C++, and then the code you produce works on both platforms.
But, neither IOS nor Android actually allow you to use all the fancy controls, like scrolling tree views, buttons, labels, view layout tools and all the rest of it if you don't use their native languages.
So you are kinda forced into it. There are ways around this - creating your own UI in C++, or using abstraction interfaces, but when you do that, you make more work for yourself, because there are enough subtle differences between how the controls work on the two different platforms as to mean you'll be writing enough device specific code you might as well have just used Objective C or Java in the beginning.
So effectively you are going to have to write the app twice, once for each platform.
Most developers tend to write apps for IOS first, because the debugging tools and pure content creation tools are light years ahead of what's available for Android. Android tends to get a port once the IOS app is complete and done.
In the case of the existing app, well, someone is obviously a glutton for punishment in terms of developing for Android first
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