My first ever iOS app is finally live 🥳

After what seemed like forever, my first ever iOS app, Paralino, is finally live on the App Store.

Paralino is end-to-end encrypted, privacy friendly, location sharing app. Location sharing is nothing "fancy" but it is still very complicated topic, let alone when you focus on encryption and privacy.

I started working on Paralino 4 years ago, and I used the app privately with my family. Last year I decided to give it a push and release it for everyone else. Android was up and running fairly easy since I am Android dev for many many years already.

iOS in itself wasn't complicated since I am using Kotlin Multiplatform, but there are still many native things in the app especially when dealing with system resources like location and mapping.

Also, app required few very special entitlements from Apple that are granted per request. One of those is ability to request someone's location manually and get updates even if the app is not running. And that one took 5 months to get for whatever reason.

Now that it is finally granted, iOS version has feature parity with Android, so everyone can use the app normally, regardless what device they have.

Check out the app directly on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6736908747

Or if you want to learn more how Paralino works, check out the website: https://paralino.com/