twodayslate/claw

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Bombs Away!

A simple iOS game, tap to destroy!

Get ready to watch the pixels fly with this highly addicting real world simulation game!

Simply tap to destroy!

Pick your target and watch it explode! 'Bombs Away!' has a predefined list of major cities and even your own location you can pick from. Zoom in to hit a specific target or choose to obliterate whole countries at a time.

Todo

• Add score and gamecenter support (total # of bombs exploded, most # of bombs exploded in a day)
• Add more bomb types
• Add more sounds
• IAPs: remove ads, buy all bomb types, buy all sounds
• Add bomb-drob animation
• Estimate # of people killed using geonames or PopStat
• Change map to WhirlyGlobe with local copy of maps

Bugs

• The first bomb's timer selector doesn't fire at the correct time (hopefully will be fixed when we change to SpriteKit)

claw's Issues

Allow swipe back for in-app safari

Most apps that open in-app Safari to allow reading an article will mimic the "swipe to go back" gesture from the left edge of the screen. It would be nice for claw to do the same so that I don't need to reach all the way to the top of my phone.

User page navigation not minimizing

Content goes behind navigation and the navigation title isn't minimizing

Pull to refresh

I would like for this to be native SwiftUI but...

https://github.com/Geri-Borbas/iOS.Blog.SwiftUI_Pull_to_Refresh

Show user submitted stories

claw/claw/User.swift

Lines 112 to 113 in 116c380

	// todo: generate submitted stories
	// /newest/twodayslate.json

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This issue was generated by todo based on a todo comment in 116c380. It's been assigned to @twodayslate because they committed the code.

Convert to IAP

In order to continue to support development and make claw more accessible to more people we should switch to a freemium model

• Make the App free on the App Store
• Grandfather in all previous purchasers to free lifetime license
• Free 3 day trial. Trial starts when you first open the application. It is okay if the user wants to have unlimited access by just deleting app and reinstalling.
• After 3 days you will need to pay $0.49/month or $4.99/year or $10 lifetime

Support login

This isn't officially supported so it will be a lot of work

https://lukakerr.github.io/javascript/reverse-engineering-hacker-news-into-an-api might help

Create Lobsters Action Extension

Pretty sure it is an Action extension we want and not a Share extension. Basically if the user is on a Lobsters page we should be able to open that up in the Lobsters app.

share or open article in browser

add a share or open in... button when in an article to share with others.

Make settings an actual environment key

https://swiftwithmajid.com/2020/12/09/styling-custom-swiftui-views-using-environment/

Add alternative icon

Claw.eps.zip

actually throw an error

claw/claw/Stories/Hottest/HottestFetcher.swift

Lines 46 to 51 in f4931d8

	completion?(nil) // todo: actually throw an error
	}
	} catch {
	print ("Error \(error)")
	completion?(error)
	}

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This issue was generated by todo based on a todo comment in f4931d8. It's been assigned to @twodayslate because they committed the code.

Fix widgets

Don't load every story in feed

StoryFetcher is called for every story in a feed cause SwiftUI reasons... load should only be called when the story is opened.

Is there a way to pre-load some stories? Like perhaps only load the first 10 stories, after that don't preload.

Related #28

Use asset catalog for alternative icons (Xcode 13)

Don't really have any icons yet... but when we do we should use the asset catalog.

https://katzenbaer.medium.com/alternate-app-icons-using-asset-catalogs-in-xcode-13-da6387d1cd78

Tags should use new bordered button (iOS 15+)

https://swiftwithmajid.com/2021/06/30/the-many-faces-of-button-in-swiftui/

Investigate if this looks good

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/quick-start/swiftui/how-to-get-bordered-buttons-that-stand-out

Set User-Agent string for requests

As requested by @pushcx

#19 (comment)

Awaiting official guidance on what the string should be

Widgets should open story

widgetURL https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view/widgeturl(_:) will be needed for the small widget

Investigate better scrolling for tags

https://twitter.com/_kavsoft/status/1574096111115341824?s=46&t=SPcWQqxNOWbtlaKRaRvwgA

Use new iOS 15 Searchable API

claw/claw/Tags/SelectedTagsView.swift

Line 60 in 1d4ad01

@ObservedObject var searchBar = SearchBar()

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/SwiftUI/View/searchable(_:text:placement:)-1r1py

Crash when opening up browser then story

Example URL to assist with testing: https://lobste.rs/s/3qgyzp

Be in that story, then open the lobsters link in the comment in the web view. Then use the share sheet to in the webview to open the lobster link again but in the app using "Open in claw". None of the links then work and when you exit the view controller it crashes

When in a story, there is also a crash if you try to use the share sheet on a story and use the "Open in claw" action to open the same story. These are most likely related.

Remove L alternative icon

@pushcx wants it gone - so its gone

View tagged stories

claw/claw/TagView.swift

Lines 32 to 37 in 116c380

	// TODO: generate tag list
	// /tags.json
	// /t/<tag>.json
	struct TagList: View {
	var tags: [String]

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This issue was generated by todo based on a TODO comment in 116c380. It's been assigned to @twodayslate because they committed the code.

WKWebView crash

testflight_feedback.zip

Lazy load from the data source

https://x.com/fatbobman/status/1768556554385797267?s=46&t=Y4XIQRacf1Xrobs6MsS0nA

Browser navigation options

Refresh, forward, back, share, open in Safari, etc.

Currently using WebView

SFSafariViewController probably the way to go as I don't expect needing anything custom.

The tab bar should be removed when browser is activated.

Will be tightly coupled with #18

Customize comment depth colors

Could be an IAP or go nicely with #19

Tag stories are reloaded when presented

Tag stories are reloaded when presented. They change too often so they shouldn't load every time.

SFSafariViewController close refreshes story list

If not on the first page of stories if you close the SFSafariViewcontroller you don't go back to the story but the list of stories and only the first page.

Investigate other markdown parsers

The current implementation is homemade.

https://github.com/shaps80/MarkdownText

iOS now supports markdown natively. Perhaps we can use this? I believe we can override the open url environment variable to control how to open the links.

Links do not open in new sheet

When a story is displayed in a sheet links do not work.

Found while testing #22

Error when no data for stories

Also see #11 #12 #13

claw/claw/Stories/Newest/NewestFetcher.swift

Lines 86 to 91 in f4931d8

	completion?(nil) // todo: actually do error
	}
	} catch {
	print ("Error \(error)")
	completion?(error)
	}

Should show an error if there is an actual error.

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This issue was generated by todo based on a todo comment in f4931d8. It's been assigned to @twodayslate because they committed the code.

Add ability to share the lobste.rs link itself

It's useful to be able to save/share the link to the comment page, not just the target site. For example the HN app this, allowing to share to personal notes with [title](https://ycombinator.com/...). It's also possible to link/share a specific comment.

Support comments for "Open in claw"

lobste.rs/c/<id> redirects to the story page

URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: URL(string: "https://lobste.rs/c/omqrcc")!) { (data, response, error) in
    print(response?.url) // this is what we should actually open. perhaps add a highlight comment part but that is another ticket...
}.resume()

Open web links in claw

If there is a link to a lobster page (user profile for example) it should open in claw and not the web page.

Having an option to enable/disable this might be a good idea.

iPad Pro Icon

TMS-90892: Missing recommended icon - The bundle does not contain an alternate app icon for iPad of exactly '167x167' pixels, in .png format for iOS versions supporting iPad Pro. To support older operating systems, the icon may be required in the bundle outside of an asset catalog. Make sure the Info.plist file includes appropriate entries referencing the file. See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information_property_list/cfbundleicons

I got this when uploading 1.1.7 although I was able to submit to the App Store just fine.

Filter tags

Have the ability to hide stories that have certain tags

Does the endpoint support this?

Improve safari and in-app browser selection

Users should be able to chose if their want stories, comments link to open in Safari or in-app.

Support strike through

https://lobste.rs/s/f5dt41/pip_has_dropped_support_for_python_2#c_ke2hvl

Limit Comment Depth

Comments look terrible if you have a thread of 5+ comments. They are scrunched and don't look good. They should be limited with a button to view the child.

Apollo has this.

Related #27

Make URL view show text

Show the text above the url if the text isn't the url itself. Makes it easier to find what url matches each text

throw error

claw/claw/Stories/Newest/NewestFetcher.swift

Lines 54 to 59 in f4931d8

	completion?(nil) // todo: throw error
	}
	} catch {
	print ("Error \(error)")
	completion?(error)
	}

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This issue was generated by todo based on a todo comment in f4931d8. It's been assigned to @twodayslate because they committed the code.

Convert network requests to async

The Image loader is already using combine

• HottestNewsFetcher
• Newest News Fetcher
• Story Fetcher
• Tag Fetcher
• Tag Story Fetcher
• User Fetcher
• hottest widget

throw actual error

claw/claw/Stories/Hottest/HottestFetcher.swift

Lines 80 to 85 in f4931d8

	completion?(nil) // todo: throw actual error
	}
	} catch {
	print ("Error \(error)")
	completion?(error)
	}

---

This issue was generated by todo based on a todo comment in f4931d8. It's been assigned to @twodayslate because they committed the code.

App does not display any posts from threads

All of the threads in the app appear like this:

I'm using an iPhone SE 2 on iOS 17.3.1 and app version 1.5.1

Infinite scroll

Support infinite scrolling for story lists

Mark as read

Mark stories as read
Perhaps mark comments as read too

Add reload button to stories

A reload button would be nice for stories. A reload button is already available for feeds.

Preload stories

After #30 we should preload some stories. Preferably only the ones in the current feed. We need to make sure we aren't preloading too many stories.

Use task for loading stories on appear (iOS 15)

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/quick-start/swiftui/how-to-run-an-asynchronous-task-when-a-view-is-shown

Instead of onAppear task should be used

If throttled wait 1s

See https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/master/config/initializers/rack_attack.rb

I've been getting throttled recently (probably due to #30) and a 1s+ wait may be good.