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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why did you go for Windows instead of iOS? Are you going to port to iOS anytime soon?
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At the time that I decided to do the Android port, I saw a lot of my users moving from Windows 10 Mobile to Android (and actually I personally was doing the same) - so I reckoned that most of the market for Freda would be people wanting an app that ran on Windows desktop/tablet and Android. An iOS port is possible in principle, because I used the Xamarin platform to build the Android port - and Xamarin does also support iOS. But in practice, it would probably take a couple of months of fairly concerted effort to get an iOS version of the app done.
Also I would, thanks to Apple's annoying policies, have to buy an Apple machine as a build-server.
So, up until now, the iOS build has been off the agenda because it would take a lot of time, and require me to spend a fair amount of money, and I'm not really sure how big a market there would be for an iOS Freda (Marvin is a *very good* alternative, and quite hard to beat).
But I am watching the Microsoft roadmap quite closely because .NET6/MAUI might offer a really straightforward way to move my Windows app over to iOS within the coming year.
In short: it may happen. Particularly if it becomes easier, or if I come to think there's a big market for it.