3Speak - Mobile App Updates - iOS Native App with SwiftUI - Experiments

Hello Hive & 3Speak Community members,

With this post, allow me to share some updates on 3Speak Mobile app.

Background

• I am currently working on the Mobile App.
• For the mobile app, we are using cross-platform-app-development called Flutter.
• Cross-platform-app-dev = with little code, you support iOS, Android, etc.
• But it comes with it’s own limitations
• Those limitations are hitting hard & causing issues in the app.

List of issues

With Flutter, we have several issues & limitation on Video player

• Changing orientation causes video play from beginning
• Full screen has several issues on Android
• Background Video player not working properly
• Picture in Picture mode not supported
• Chrome cast, AirPlay not supported
• On Android, most of the videos, only play sound & shows black screen
• Video playback speed changes related issues
• Video player crash
• Issues while playing 3Shorts videos
• Video player doesn’t support subtitles
• Upgrading 3rd party video player library may cause several issues
• We’re using multiple 3rd party video libraries to play videos & shorts for iOS & Android
• With those many issues, I kept thinking on what needs to be done.

Why Now?

• At the moment, we are doing a lot of refactoring and making open source contribution.
• With acela-core, SpkNetwork is trying to keep the back-end code completely open-source.
• With GraphQL, Any one can use queries & use it in their DApp.
• Such Massive refactoring work also made me think about the refactoring mobile app.
• I am already re-writing the most of the screens with GraphQL & Acela-core, why not native?
• So, I worked on a separate code-base/repository to build the native app for iOS users.

Demo Items

• Feeds switching on Top bar / Quick switch Feeds
• Play video & Explore feed at the same time (landscape)
• Hide Side Menu to get full window experience
• Full Screen Video experience
• Work & Play video, Picture in Picture mode
• Change Playback speed without any issues

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