iOS support

[bauerj]

An iOS version is currently in development.

If you would like to test, you can find it on testflight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ToncPdxU

Please open a new issue if you find a bug in the iOS version.

If you would like to help developing, please let us know here. The current progress can be found here: https://github.com/AliKarpuzoglu/paperless_app/tree/clean_update

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This issue will be used to coordinate the effort to distribute Paperless App to the Apple app store.

A developer has been able to successfully run the app on their iOS device, with only minor changes. More details will follow soon.

While all features work, there are some further changes necessary to make it feel like a proper app on iOS, especially regarding the user interface. Currently there are still some layout problems and missing navigation elements.

Once the app works good enough to release it to the public, we will have to:

• Set up automatic building as part of our CI pipeline (cc @tcurdt)
• Find out how I can make sure I didn't break anything for iOS when changing something

[qcasey]

That's great! I'm out of the country right now, but I'd be able to help TestFlight once I'm back in the states.

I know this is still in the early stages, but is there a plan for publishing? My apple developer account has lapsed. However I'm happy to pitch in for the cost of the
shared account.

[pilaski]

As Johann already indicated, I have a version for iOS running. I supports the main functions and only required very small modifications. In case anyone is interested to test it, please let me know. You can see the changes in my fork of this repository.

A few things are still not working perfectly but I would consider most of them as minor problems. Here are the issues I discovered so far:

• Some screens (about and settings) don't have a back button but it seems like a left to right swipe can close them.
• It is not yet possible to share external content with the app. There are instructions for enabling this in Xcode in the Flutter implementation (receive_sharing_intent) but I didn't run through it yet.
• Some parts of the edge_detection UI have buttons that have issues with background transparency on newer iOS version (at least for iOS 15, maybe even for 13 and 14). I traced this down to the native implementation which is called WeScan (from We Transfer). I changed the background for the navigation bars on the top of the screen but could not do it for the bottom part from within a customized version of edge_detection. This needs to be done in WeScan but I didn't yet see a way to include a customized version of WeScan into edge detection. As this issue was also raised for WeScan I hope it would disappear soon.
• The document preview image inside the detailed document view is inverted in dark mode even if the settings switch is set to not invert documents in preview

Apart from this everything seems to be working fine. Anyone interested in testing, please let me know.

[andreheuer]

I would also be able to test the iOS app. Can you invite me to test flight?

BR

[zeeshan-m]

Happy to test if you need more testers :)

[dereitz]

Same - happy to test if you need more testers!

[pilaski]

Good to see so many people interested to test. Now I just need your e-Mail addresses. Please write to my first name at my last name dot de.

Unfortunately I can't offer a link for public beta test. I tried to submit the app for review to Apple but that failed. Apple needs access to a Paperless server in order to test the app. Does anyone know if there is a demo instance of Paperlesss available anywhere?

[qcasey]

I don't know of an official one. You're all welcome to hammer my demo instance, if you'd like:

https://paperless-demo.quinncasey.com/
paperless
paperless

[Eldiabolo21]

I sent you an email as well, thanks for taking care of it!

[fyrfli]

Looking forward to this.

[JDFS404]

Happy to test as well @pilaski, just sent you an email!

[2600box]

I sent an email too. Hoping to be able to try it out! Thanks!

[Eldiabolo21]

Has anyone ever heard back from sending an emai? I haven't since I wrote in December last year.

[dereitz]

I heard back from @pilaski back in Nov, but nothing since. I have the app in Test Flight and submitted some feedback through that. Perhaps other life priorities have taken over? It's hard to know with the lack of response.

[bauerj]

@dereitz and everyone else who has been able to test this: Can I get some feedback on how well this worked? Did you notice any bugs or things to improve?