Question: Ways to Support

Tarmslitaren / FrosthavenAssistant

flutter app

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Question: Ways to Support #136

Closed nickv2002 closed 6 months ago

nickv2002 commented 1 year ago

This tool is super valuable and I'd love to support it.

I'm happy to donate $ for any costs (I'm guessing you can't make a profit without a license)
I don't know Dart but work in other languages so can offer advice there when relevant
I can help organize the issues with labels and do some basic triage
I could use my Apple developer account to sign the Mac binaries so they don't get the Unsigned software warnings as I do for Simple Comic (but given you already have iOS versions maybe that's a technical limitation)

Please let me know if any of these would be helpful. Thanks again!

Tarmslitaren commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your interest!

I should set up some sort of donation way, since it's a commonly requested 'feature'
Dart is pretty easy. If you feel like contributing with code, I can give a tour of the codebase. The most pressing issues are plainly code quality since I've pretty much only done quick and dirty solutions for a speedy development. I have a plan for that though.
Secondly if you are at all interested in testing, that is also needed ;)
For the mac issue: If you know how to sign the binaries without putting it on the store that could be helpful. The main reason I haven't added it to the app store is it would become a part of the ios release process, and I currently don't want to jeopardize the speed of that (you never know what they will complain about) but in the end I should add it there anyway.

nickv2002 commented 1 year ago

I hear you about app review. The way I sign & notarize Simple Comic for distribution outside the App Store is via the Xcode GUI process. It does send my binary to Apple but it's just an automated scan that takes ~15 minutes, no human review. From the Organizer window, I select the arrived build and click Distribute then the Developer ID option. But if that doesn't work for your workflow you can use other CLI tools. Lots info & details here. Xcode Sign Mac Build

I don't want to take up much of your time but an idea to figure out what to do for testing and/or other feature requests would be to create a Help Wanted ticket with some short descriptions of some tasks that folks could do to test etc.

Happy to donate once you have a way to do that (ie through GitHub sponsors)

Tarmslitaren commented 6 months ago

added Ko-Fi donations due to high demand. You may find the link from the readme