Real (open source) iOS app

📱 Desktop & mobile clients 🍏 iOS
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I just found an old discussion about the iOS client in ownCloud which was closed-source in the beginning as well. Then the sources were published but still no own version could be distributed:

In this discussion I found a link to a real open source iOS client that can be freely modified and distributed (under MIT license):

Probably it can’t compete with the current ownCloud-iOS-app and closed-source Nextcloud-iOS-app (yet), but it’s a start. It is supposed to work with oC 8.1. Could this be the start for a proper Nextcloud iOS app?

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The app is a bit old and doesn’t run on current iOS. So, there is probably a need to rewrite a completely new app:

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AFAIK you cant publish Open Source apps on the app store because Apple requires you to sign a contract that requires you to not publish the app on any other store. This however is incompatible with most? licenses

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what about MIT or Apache license?

Publishing the code can’t be the issue because owncloud already publishes the code on github.

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The app was open sourced in the mean time. Thank at all working for it:

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Is there a way to get the iOS app for free? I see that it’s free on Android.

Can it be compiled from the github source?

Thanks!

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I think so, however non app store apps on iOS are pretty hard, especially because you need a bunch of signed certificates to access additional APIs, so while you probably could compile the app it could be worthless because you cant access things like network on iOS.

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