Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Jitsi Meet SDK for iOS, the
mobile SDK which powers Jitsi Meet.
The goal is to encapsulate the entire React Native app into a framework / SDK
and offer an API for native (ObjC or Swift) applications to embed the Jitsi
conferencing experience.
While React Native can be embedded in native applications, I don't think it was
designed to be embedded as part of a framework, hidden away from the application
using it. This surfaced as a number of issues which had to be addressed
specifically due to our use-case:
- Universal / deep linking needed to be wrapped to avoid the embedding app from
linking with RN.
- The bundle URL had to be manually constructed, since RN considers that all
resources are in the main bundle, but in case of a framework that is not the
case.
- Custom fonts had to be manually loaded, since UIAppFonts doesn't work on the
framework's Info.plist file.
- The RN packager has to be manually triggered since the React project will no
longer do it for us.
- Custom App Transport Security rules were added since the builtin way to do it
modifies the framework's Info.plist, which is useless in this case.
At this stage, the Jitsi Meet application is just a small single view
application which uses the Jitsi Meet SDK to create a single view which
represents the entire application. Events and external conference handling are
forthcoming.
It will render as white in dark backgrounds. This is what FaceTime does and what
we already do on Android. The problem with the default look (black text) is
noticeable in audio only mode, since the background is dark.
Now that Apple have approved build 1.3.204 for release in the App Store,
the short app version needs to be incremented; otherwise, no new builds
can be uploaded to TestFlight and, respectively, for release in the App
Store.
Now that Apple have approved build 1.2.199 for release in the App Store,
the short app version needs to be incremented; otherwise, no new builds
can be uploaded to TestFlight and, respectively, for release in the App
Store.
Turns out React Native's timers (setTimeout / setInterval) don't run while the
app is in the background: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/167
This patch replaces the global timer functions with those from the
react-native-background-timer package, which work in the background.
These timers won't magically make an application work in the background, but
they will run if an application already happens to run in the background. That's
our case while in a conference, so these timers will run, allowing XMPP pings to
be sent and the conference to stay up as long as the user desires.
This reverts commit b96ca538e4. While iPad
support is nice to have, we are not ready for a publish in App Store.
During the upload to iTunes Connect, a verification of the .ipa fails
because:
- app icons for iPad are missing:
- 76x76 pixels in .png format for iOS versions >= 7.0,
- 167x167 pixels in .png format for iOS versions supporting iPad Pro,
- 152x152 pixels in .png format for iOS versions >= 7.0,
- orientations required for iPad Mutitasking are missing:
- UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown.
Now that Apple have approved build 1.1.185 for release in the App Store,
the short app version needs to be incremented; otherwise, no new builds
can be uploaded to TestFlight and, respectively, for release in the App
Store.
Simplify the source code (with the idea that source code which does not
exist does not have to be maintained).
Additionally, apply modifications to have the source code comply with the coding
style.
Overall, prepare saghul:audio-mode for merge into jitsi:master.
Now that Apple have approved build 1.0.178 for release in the App Store,
the short app version needs to be incremented; otherwise, no new builds
can be uploaded to TestFlight and, respectively, for release in the App
Store.
The launch screen appears not centered and/or clipped on certain
devices. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce it when I deploy the app to
devices and Simulator from Xcode 8.1. It may (or may very well not) be
that the Xcode version matters and the enterprise build server does
appear to use an older Xcode version.
LaunchScreen.xib compiles locally with Xcode 8.1 but the enterprise
build fails. A possibility is that the enterprise build machine is
running an older Xcode version.
Xcode insists on automatically fixing the project file with tvOS
support. In order to not have to constantly ignore these automatic
changes when committing, commit them.
Bundle our custom icon font jitsi.ttf in the Android app (which we
already do for the iOS app).
Additionally, remove icon font files which are not in use.
As a step toward merging jitsi-meet-react with jitsi-meet to share as
much source code as possible between mobile and Web, merge the part of
jitsi-meet-react's source tree which supports mobile inside the
jitsi-meet source tree and leave jitsi-meet-react's Web support in the
source code revision history but don't have it in master anymore because
it's different from jitsi-meet's Web support. In other words, the two
projects are mechanically merged at the file level and don't really
share source code between mobile and Web.
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Lyubo Marinov
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Lyubomir Marinov
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