Hi, I’m a complete useless lurker who do not know anything about programming, and I want to program an XMPP client :D. I have absolutely 0 competence, but I’d like to know if there is a language preferable to make such things, and if there is a place where I can start to learn. I tried with some basic tutorials and general lessons about programming, but without a clear goal I got bored and stopped after a little while. Thanks in advance for every advice/insult!
Flutter might be a good option. Maybe best would be if you can contribute to an ongoing effort to write a new XMPP client in Flutter here: https://codeberg.org/moxxy/moxxyv2
Thanks for the suggestions and the link :). Just briefly looking to the project it sadly doesn’t seems too different from conversetions and forks, but I will check more deeply. Thanks again!
Its a completely different code-base, no relation to Conversations at all. The screenshots in the readme are quite outdated.
@poVoq@lemmy.ml do you know where I could find an apk for moxxyv2? I am not an expert at all and don’t know how to build applications.
I don’t think the developer considers it ready for non-developer testing yet. But I guess it should not be difficult to build with the Flutter SDK.
First decide on a platform, then language. Do you want to make a windows gui client? Apple? Mobile? Web? *nix console?
GUI is the hardest part of programming on pretty much any platform, especially compared to how simple XMPP is.
Javascript/web is probably easiest for a beginner…
You’re right, I’d like to develop for android, and I prefer to learn something else than JavaScript. Thanks for the answer and the info of course :)
I am no Android developer but apparently you can use Kotlin for that:
Yep, I thought about Kotlin, maybe if I can learn that I could help jerboa development too :D
My wife uses iPhone. So you should learn Swift and make a reliable XMPP client on iOS, which always notifies my wife when she has a new message.
Has she tried the latest Monal release? I think there were some improvement for push notifications.
At least Snikket server and the iOS app for Snikket (based on Siskin) have reliable push notifications on iOS for sure.
P.S.: the problem is of course iOS and not XMPP :p
Yes, she did. I’m going to try @snikket_im@fosstodon.org’s server maybe next year. Thank you.
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When the notification doesn’t work correctly on my wife’s phone, it is neither iOS’s nor XMPP’s fault. It is mine.
Or maybe hers because she just pretends to not get them ;)
No, she didn’t. I saw the client didn’t work.
I never used an iPhone or iOS in any way, so I don’t think this gonna work :)
