Proposal Monitor: I built us an app!

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Hi! My name is Victor Martins and I’d like to introduce you to an app I’ve been developing.

Proposal Monitor lets you explore every Swift Evolution proposal and allows you to be notified about changes such as new proposals, review periods, acceptances and much more.

It’s available on iOS, iPadOS and visionOS (from day one). Below is a short summary of some the app’s features:

  • Push notifications can keep you up-to-date with new proposals and relevant proposal changes;
  • These updates can also be seen on your home screen using the widgets.
    They are available in multiple sizes and are compatible with widget stacks, making sure it gets to the top of the stack once there's new and relevant information.
  • You can see details about each proposal, including related proposals and discussions (such as pitches, reviews and acceptances).
    It's easy to dive in and read both the full proposals or any of its related discussions while staying in the app;
  • The proposals can be filtered by status and searched by title, authors, status, the version the proposal was implemented, and more;

I’ve been following the Swift Evolution proposals since its first years and I’ve always wanted to receive notifications about it. Over the last few years I couldn’t find an app that could do that, so I decided to build it myself and it’s been a lot of fun!

I have a lot of cool features on the roadmap for the app and I’m here sharing it with the community to hear your feedback and evolve it in the direction you are most interested in.

If you happen to be interested in it and give it a chance, tell me what you think about it and what features you'd like to see! :smile:

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It’s a very beautiful app!
I love following, reading and re-reading the proposals and often look at them for reference. So your app is perfect! Thank you so much for building it!

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Will a macOS version be available?

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Yes, most definitely! I plan on making the iPadOS version more powerful and then implementing a macOS version.

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This app is just amazing. :star_struck:

I stumbled over it while looking for an RSS feed for the proposal website. And the app is what I got instead.

Perhaps not a reason for a Vision Pro, but incredibly valuable anyway. :sweat_smile:

So much high-quality work here. Not just something that works, but also beautiful. This is what I love about this community!

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Thank you :), great app! Just downloaded it.

Would like to also plug this other older (and sadly not updated for a few years now) app for Swift evolution: ‎EVOlution - App on the App Store

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When you press the information button (and then on continue), the sheet for notifications will pop up again, this looks like unintended behavior or is this intentional?
Good job for the app👏

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On M-models mac you can run iOS apps directly on the system, i made my apps iPad optimized, and enabled that they can run on macOS, it works well, keyboard shortcuts are also supported, it may also be enough for this app to get it on macOS.

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Yes, @Panajev, unfortunately, life happened, and I didn't update EVO anymore, even though I tried a few times to write a new version of it using only SwiftUI.

@Victor_Martins, what a pleasure to see you around! After many years since we last met in Rio, I now have the pleasure to see you here with an amazing project! I will definitely download it, and thanks for your hard work implementing it. I am quite sure you had a lot of fun working on Proposal Monitor, as I did with EVO!

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