FAQ

When will Stitchart have insert-feature-here

Stitchart is constantly being improved and is under active development. We have quite a long list of feature requests and we are working towards adding them (some are easier than others). At the same time we also have to make sure the app is stable and behaves itself for everyone. Bugs and issues always take priority over new features.

Ultimately though, Stitchart is a side-project and we have limited time to dedicate to it. This is part of the reason we choose stability and user-experience on a single platform over trying to build a “mega knitting app”.

Why isn’t Stitchart available on iOS?

Unfortunately we don’t have the resources to build a great app for both mobile platforms yet. Ultimately we would love to support iOS as well, but we prefer to make the app great on one platform rather than trying to maintain something of lower quality for both platforms.

But app-xyz is available on both platforms!

That’s wonderful for them. Choosing which platforms to support is always a question of compromise. We chose to build Stitchart as a native Android application. This means the entire codebase is specific to Android, porting it to iOS would effectively be a whole new application. Maintaining compatibility between these two applications means that every new feature needs to be developed twice.

Getting a bit technical: why didn’t you write Stitchart in something cross platform like Flutter|ReactNative|NativeScript|Cordova|InsertFrameworkHere? We have plenty of experience with several of these tools, but they are also an inherent compromise. While it does require significantly less work to create a cross-platform application, the support load is not decreased at all. You still have bugs that pop-up on one platform but not another, you still have to connect both platforms with the support tooling, etc. Not to mention that the application never truly feels native.