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yourPISD / yourpisd

Android app to access myPISD (Plano Independent School District grades portal)
MIT License
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Porting to iOS? #22

Open theKidOfArcrania opened 8 years ago

theKidOfArcrania commented 8 years ago

After sifting through all the comments about yourpisd, a huge consensus was on porting this to iOS. I have looked at this tool but not sure if it could work yet, so if anyone else has any other suggestions, please comment down below. The problem is, I don't think anyone of us has a mac?

sid-kap commented 8 years ago

Another option is to write a single app that works on both OSes, using Google's Flutter or React Native.

sid-kap commented 8 years ago

BTW, one reason we were hesitant to build an iOS app is that the App Store has a pretty high reject rate. One of the common reasons for rejection is that the app serves only a small, niche market. yourPISD is only relevant to PISD students and parents, and not the general population, so it might be considered niche---I'm not sure.

I know someone who worked on a similar app for Austin Independent School District. They built a Chrome app, Android app, and iOS app, but they never released the iOS app. I'm going to ask him why they didn't release it, and if it had anything to do with the App Store guidelines.

EDIT: Turns out they stopped working on it because all of them graduated. So the App Store guidelines didn't have anything to do with it.

hanli1 commented 8 years ago

@theKidOfArcrania If no one has a mac, then maybe talk to some of the computer science teachers about it? I know when we were developing this app at Plano West, the district actually loaned us a mac to do some development. We just ended up not having time to utilize the resource. Also, Swift would be probably a better alternative to objective C.