Asking for iOS build...

[robiwan1]

Hi Jeremy!
You where definitely NOT the last holdout for the N900. I am still useing it - even as company phone. But the last exchange updates chrashed my calendar sync - so the days are counted! Unfortunately my company only supports iphones (i am the last man standing without an iphone) - but an iphone without portabase is useless for me. Its the only app i can't miss! How hard would it be, to build/devlope a iOS Version of portabase.
I hope you are healthy!

[jmbowman]

I'm doing pretty well, although my life outside hobby open source development is keeping me very busy (mostly in good ways). I actually had a new version of PortaBase for all the usual platforms (Linux/UNIX, Android, macOS, and Windows) essentially ready to release about a year ago but just ran out of time to do the upload and announcement logistics; still trying to make time for that. I expect the iOS port to be medium effort - it should be feasible without a major redesign, but may require quite a bit of tinkering to look and work right (that was the case for the Android port). Of course, there's also the point that although I finished the port to Qt 5, Qt 6 is out now and would probably be a better basis for new platform targets...

I'll at least try to get that stalled release finished, but I'm not sure yet if I'll be able to dedicate much more time than that to PortaBase development by the end of 2021. If you or someone else wants to take a stab at the iOS port before I get around to it, I can at least answer questions about it and maybe debug the occasional problem.

[jmbowman]

This will definitely be blocked on #60 . I don't want to attempt this in Qt 5 only to discover that there are bugs and limitations which only let it work on recent iOS versions with Qt 6.