Support for mobile devices? about patchwork HOT 9 CLOSED

lite-client patchbay seems to be the way forward on this issue for now. Closing!

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No worries, good question.

We don't currently build for mobile, because we lack the resources for it. (We're presently working on a new V2 of Patchwork's frontend, which will be our stable longterm application, and that's taking all of our time.)

Our longterm plan is to adapt Patchwork to run on mobile. We'll need to answer a few different questions, including:

• How does SSB do for bandwidth-usage? battery-usage? disk-usage? Do we need to tweak the algorithms to fit mobile better?
• What needs to be done for Patchwork to be ported to mobile? Can we manage both builds in the same repository?
• What platform rules, for iOS and Android, do we need to conform to?
• How will identities work? There's currently a hard constraint, that you cannot use the same keypair on two different devices, because this can produce conflicts in SSB's data-model. We'll need to solve this. (Discussed here ssbc/ssb-server#252)

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Thanks. I agree perf testing is the first thing to do.

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Relevant:
https://github.com/benoitvallon/react-native-nw-react-calculator
Creators thoughts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513241

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The perf is probably okay - that is to say, it will work - perf can always be improved, but what we really need first is something working, and for that we need someone with some mobile experience. @pfraze and I barely own cellphones.

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Does anyone involved already have pre-existing knowledge about the compatibility of react-native with the libraries ssb+patchwork relies on? I'm assuming that anything in the client/server JS sphere will "probably work" without too much trouble; i.e., anything that can be brought in with npm and bower.

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@du5t the tricky parts are probably leveldb and sodium. There is definately something for leveldb, but less people use sodium.

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Thanks for that. I would have expected the reverse, but at least this way I know what will be a slog.

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I think posted this on patchwork already, but https://github.com/tradle/react-native-level and https://github.com/mochtu/libsodium-ios

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