indiepass / indiepass-ios

An IndieWeb app with extensions for sharing information to micropub endpoints and reading from microsub endpoints

IndiePass

A social app for the IndieWeb.

Previously known as Indigenous, IndiePass is designed to be a cross platform Micropub/Microsub client that's simple to use on Android, iOS and desktop.

Rebuilding in progress...

IndiePass is the next version of Indigenous, which has different apps for iOS, Android and Desktop. The goal of this rewrite is to bring all the different versions of the app together in one unified codebase, which will make it easier to maintain, and develop going forward.

As such, the state of this version is very much a work in progress, and you can find regular updates on my site, https://marksuth.dev

After a few false starts and dead-ends, I have now settled on this current approach for the codebase using Flutter, focusing first on getting the Android & iOS versions released.

Documentation

I will shortly be launching documentation for the new app, with breakdowns of each post type, and a general how-to on using the app. As much as anything this is to act as a guide for myself of what needs to go where.

Screenshot

Everything is still very much a work-in-progress, but here's a quick screenshot.

Credits

• Eddie Hinkle original creator of Indigenous and iOS version
• swentel original developer of Android and Desktop versions
• Christian Hockenberger for suggesting the name IndiePass
• IndieWeb community as a whole.

I'll write up more complete credits of third party libraries used as the app develops further.

indiepass-ios's Issues

Add micro.blog Timeline as a “Channel” in the Reader when user has authenticated with micro.blog

Add photo to note

Make sure that scope returned from token endpoint contains "create" or else present error

When a post doesn’t send correctly in indigenous, it fails silently

This isn’t good. It should present an error that it didn’t send. Either initially or later it should actually save a draft version of that post

An alert should be displayed if you try to use the share sheet without logging in

READER: Add icon to indicate that this post is a reply to another post

Write a reply note based on current URL

Re-add legacy support for Token endpoints returning urlencoded responses

Some IndieAuth providers (like Known) still return urlencoded responses from the token endpoint. I need to re-add that support as legacy compatibility for the time being.

Also opened up an issue with Known to get their token endpoint working correctly.

idno/known#1986

Add “cancel” authorization button

When “authorizing” server, there should be a “cancel” button that aborts authorization in case someone gets stuck

Add a configuration option for a non-micro.blog user to "login to micro.blog"

This allows someone who posts on a non-micro.blog hosted site to be able to display their micro.blog timeline

Crash when refreshing channel list

I encountered a crash when I did the pull to refresh gesture in the channel list. I doesn't crash every time, so I'm not quite sure what the combination of things was to cause it. I don't see any crash info in my device logs.

Investigate if swipe length can be shorter

As pointed out in #76 it can be confusing that you can do a full swipe to trigger the swiping actions because it requires further than a user expects. I have often found this to be the case. Investigate if there is a way to make this swipe length shorter while still using the native tableview controls.

READER: Improve article display

If post is an article (has name and it’s not equal to the beginning of the content), then the name should be a title (likely bold or some prominent font) and the first X characters of the article should display in a smaller more subtle font.

For micro.blog users default response types to micro.blog options

If the micropub endpoint is micro.blog's micropub, default the micropub response types to those that micro.blog supports

Login needs to follow redirects (http -> https)

When trying to log in to http://cleverdevil.io, it doesn’t follow the redirect to https://cleverdevil.io so we just get stuck in the endless spinner

Fix new "Share Modal" communication errors

When using the new share modal the timing of the dismiss functions is off causing the app to occasionally freeze.

Stuck on "Authorizing with Server"

I can enter my site (https://barryfrost.com), authorize with my IndieAuth service (auth.barryfrost.com) and get returned to Indigenous, but from there I just see "Authorizing with Server" and a spinner.

Is there an issue my end that you can see in your logs? Perhaps a return value that I'm missing? Quill, Micropublish, IndieWeb wiki, etc. all log in fine.

Add micro.blog “Favorites” and “Mentions” feeds as Channels

Like current URL

Cells become huge when an image is displayed

Potential fix: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44170726

Handle backing out of authorization screen

When I enter https://aaronparecki.com, it does discovery and opens the authorization screen. If I don't approve the login and instead click the "Done" button in the top left corner, the screen is dismissed and I am taken back to the app and it's stuck saying "Authorizing with Server [spinner]"

Repost current url

Use iOS 11's new Authentication Session for logging in

Add comment to likes

Just as we will be able to add content to a reply how about giving the option to do the same for likes rather than limiting it to the action.

Add support for application/json to be returned from the token endpoint

Related to #38

Add micro.blog “Discover” Timeline (regular discover, as well as emoji search feeds) as Channels

Add Black Theme

User should be able to turn on a “Black theme” which inverts text and background colors for easy reading in the dark.

Present error if user returns application/json from the token endpoint

Swipe to view should immediately launch the browser

I don't think the extra step of swipe then click is needed. Would be nicer if the swipe action was all that was needed to open the browser

Support syndicate-to targets.

Name on the tin says it all. Didn't see an open issue for this. I'm not sure what the intended action is supposed to be for instance when liking a tweet with Tweetbot.

Add Channel Settings Screen

At start this should have:

• Auto-read
• Mark all posts as read

Fix Siri Issue from Apple Dev

We have discovered one or more issues with your recent delivery for "Indigenous - Micropub Client". Your delivery was successful, but you may wish to correct the following issues in your next delivery:

Invalid Siri Support - No example phrase was provided for INCreateNoteIntent in the "en" language. Please refer to "https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Intents/Conceptual/SiriIntegrationGuide/CustomVocabularyKeys.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016875-CH10-SW16"

Add categories to note

Present alert error if no auth endpoint, token endpoint or micropub endpoint are found

When a user logs out of Indigenous, the token should be revoked

https://indieauth.net/spec/#token-revocation

Keyboard covers share extension

Keyboard covers share extension when trying to write a reply post

Syndicate reply to micro.blog

When posting a reply to a non-micro.blog hosted site, there should be an option to syndicate replies to micro.blog.

In order for this to happen outside of a native micro.blog post, I'll need an API from manton that allows me to provide a URL and get the micro.blog API id back.

Every post should be marked as read after it is interacted with in some way.

Each post (unique id as URL, so the same post might be in multiple channels.) should track certain things such as what types of responses the user has done. It should also remember if the post has been “read”. When it’s read it should be slightly dimmed from view. If the user views a photo, opens a longer version of a post, or responds to the post in some way, it should be marked as read.

It should also be able to be unmarked as read.

User customisable post types

Add the ability to customise the post types, e.g. change note to status for WordPress users.

Login state is not retained

Hi Eddie,

I open Indigenuous, get the login screen. I enter the site address, https://ascraeus.org/, and get the redirect to IndieAuth, that's all fine.

After logging into a designated provider, the program exits. On relaunch, the screen briefly flashes logged in as - then resets to the login screen.

iOS 11, iPhone 6

Post note

Make sure login URL has UITextContentType

Make sure that the login text box uses UITextContentType of URL. This should hopefully auto-suggest the user's URL

Bookmark current url

Domain name not always listed on account page after login

Sometimes the domain name doesn’t appear on the account page until the app has closed and reloaded.

This is an issue with using viewDidLoad to load the username variable. That isn’t called when switching back to an already open view. We also need to load username on viewWillAppear

Add NSAppTransportSecurity to extensions

b29153c#commitcomment-26180518

A channel should have some type of a subtle indicator if there are “new posts”

Need to determine what a “new post” is. Is it posts after the current “timeline location”? I don’t think that’s the case because that means scrolling down would cause the indicator to appear.

The easiest way seems to be when your timeline reaches the top of the channel, it sets the channel as read. When a background fetch happens, if it discovers new posts by using the “before” Microsub token, then it should set the channel to “new”. This means a channel is “read” not if everything is read, but if the timeline has been scrolled to the top.

Add support for uploading to media endpoints

I need to add support for media endpoints to support photo uploads as well as other media uploads

Just spins when I try to log in

Hi, I’ve got a WordPress site, and after I filled in my URL it just sits with the spinner on the “Authorizing with server” message. I put in my blog URL, http://devilgate.org/blog/ , because that’s where WordPress is hosted.

Crashes after approving authorization

After I approve the authorization from my site, the app crashes.

I dug up the logs, and here's where it crashed:

Indigenous(CoreFoundation)[14432] <Notice>: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'accessing _cachedSystemAnimationFence requires the main thread'

Autocomplete covers UI elements