Postalgic Devlog

Updates about Postalgic development

Posts tagged with "ios"

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Heck yes, I just finally got a full sync system with smart publishing included working. So you can make a post on self-hosted, publish, pull it down to iOS, make a post and publish it, pull it down on self-hosted, and so on. It's working! It took some thought but, goddamn, it's finally working properly.

Unsurprisingly it has been very difficult to get syncing to work. Only today did I finally get syncing working between two copies of the self-hosted version of the app. Now we'll figure out if I can get syncing working between iOS -> iOS and then iOS -> self-hosted. I already know self-hosted -> iOS works. There's also two separate systems at play, because we're trying to do smart publishing so both systems need to generate the same identical html and hash it the same way, this has been annoying...

New Syncing

I am working today on getting cross-platform syncing working for Postalgic blogs. So when you upload your blog, it uploads a syncable version as well, with your draft posts encrypted with a choosable password. Then you can have your blog in multiple clients and the 'cloud storage' of your blog is just your site storage. So far I've gotten it working for uploading the sync data and importing a blog from the sync data in the new self-hosted version. Just need to QA the iOS side of that and keep going...