App development

jannis6023

Hi, I'm interested in some information about the background of your great apps! Are they developed for Windows, Android and Apple each, or is it a cross platform Framework, I don't already know?

Thanks for any information 🙂

timo

I am using the Xamarin cross-platform framework and C# programming language from Microsoft to build my apps. I am using Xamarin "Native", not Forms or MAUI. This allows me to share large parts of the code across the platforms. Only the UI part I have to basically write separately for each operating system. On Windows, the app is a UWP app.
Hope that helps 🙂

CRS

A somewhat related question: Is development still taking place? It started great, but important features are stuck in approved/planned state and I did not notice any changes for months now. I know how hard it is to keep things going and understand that. However, I'm curious what can be expected. Thanks!

timo

Of course. I am working on the app on a daily basis. I just fixed a bug that was reported today. The last update was less than 1 month ago.
A "planned" feature was implemented last week and comes with the next update that is currently rolling out. There is also so much that is done "behind the scenes" that you don't necessarily see as a user, like fixing the last remaining bugs, performance improvements, keeping up with changes of the APIs of the cloud providers & development frameworks, providing support via forum & mails etc. etc. The app is available for 4 platforms and it can sometimes I focus on a certain platform, which causes less updates/changes on the other platforms.
"Approved" doesn't mean, that the feature will come to the app.
All in all I am quite comfortable how the app is looking, I don't want to add things for the sake of adding things. Many users like that the app isn't too complicated to use. If I implemented every feature requested, the app would be bloated and unusable.
Commenting on existing feature requests (like you did - thanks!) helps me getting a sense what really is still missing. Some things however just cannot be added due to the nature of the app or because of technical limitations.