A few weeks ago, I wrote about using Appgyver, a no-code app development tool, to get my app off the ground. After experimenting with Appgyver this past weekend, I’m reconsidering.
While using the platform to create the first screen for my app, I found that the level of community and customer support for the product did not meet my expectations. For example, an interaction I want to implement is to automatically display the keyboard when the user taps on the “Add” button to create a new task. There’s a function in Appgyver to enable this feature, but that function wasn’t working. After searching the web, I found a forum with someone complaining about the same issue. The response they got back from customer support was something like, thanks for pointing this out, and we’ll add it to our backlog to fix later. That was dated a few months ago, and the problem persists. If I compromise on features now, what are the chances I’ll have to do so, again, as I continue throughout the project? I don’t know, and I’m not interested in finding out.
At this point, I think the best option for me is to try to create the app using Apple’s native development tool Xcode with SwiftUI. Working with SwiftUI will be a more significant learning curve, but the SwiftUI community is so large that I’m confident I’ll find multiple answers to the problems I run into.
I’ll check in again next week with my progress.