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by ederamen 871 days ago
They don't develop those APIs out of the goodness of their heart - it's a lock in strategy.

They've made it practically impossible to write native cross platform code that runs on IOS, and they've everything they can (within political limits) to prevent web apps from being able to compete with native apps.
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dgfitz 871 days ago
I’ve had success with Qt building an app that compiles on Android and iOS. I’m not in the app development business at $dayjob though.
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ederamen 871 days ago
Oh cool - I started looking into Qt a while ago but was confused by their license. Would you recommend it?
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rubymamis 871 days ago
The license may look confusing, but it's pretty permissive. I highly recommend Qt. I developed a block editor[1] (similar to Notion) using Qt C++ and QML, and my development experience is pretty great.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/

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bowsamic 871 days ago
Many apps have a cross platform C++ back end
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