- Mobile (iOS/iPadOS) - Would be great to be able to work on Pages/Keynotes documents on phone/tablet. Is it something that will be possible in the future?
Yes, k.k on Discord had shared a couple of proof of concepts pictures
iOS / iPadOS needs the font to be wrapped into an app (and then published to the App Store etc).
My primary language is Elixir, and there is an interesting project by Dockyard called LiveView Native (LVN). It’s basically a way to write Phoenix (Elixir’s web framework) and target all the platforms. Both Phoenix LiveView and LVN seems to be rapidly maturing.
There are things we cannot do in a font, but possible with computation available as an app. Hovering Jyutping on OCR / camera feed; TTS; STT etc. I’ll learn and investigate over summer (so this is more likely something in 2025 rather than now).
Thank you and k.k
An App sure sounds interesting
Is there a discord?? Would love to join. Can’t seem to find info on it…
If all you want is to bundle a font into an iOS app for publication, moving on top of a x-platform abstraction layer sounds like a big gun. Usually better to just have a separate iOS build procedure that takes the finished artifacts and creates the bundle using Xcode stuff…that way you don’t pick up a dependency just for some boilerplate scripting.
The Discord is at Visual Fonts (it’s mostly my monologue)
I’ll revisit the iOS app in summer. ATM I’m gearing up to the mid-May general availability, which means surrounding ecology (web + doc + promotion), and opening up early access week-by-week (some in-person, some online).