#+title: gitbay-ios
#+author: Christian Cleberg

A native iOS client for [[https://gitbay.org][gitbay]], a CLI-first git forge.

This app is a reading, reviewing and responding surface for the times you are
not at a keyboard.

[[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gitbay/id6806399095][https://toolbox.marketingtools.apple.com/api/v2/badges/download-on-the-app-store/black/en-us]]

* What it does

| Area                      | What's there                                                                                                                       |
|---------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Dashboard                 | Your review queue, assigned work, open merge requests and issues, pinned repositories, recent activity, and the unread count       |
| Repositories              | File tree and blob view with syntax highlighting, history at a ref or per file, blame, branches and tags, file editing on a branch, and a compare between any two refs |
| Merge requests            | Lists and detail with a unified diff, comments and review threads, review verdicts and requests, draft and ready, retarget, milestones, and the stack a merge request sits in |
| Issues                    | Lists and detail, comments, labels with the colours the web paints them, assignees and milestones, filtering by label, assignee, author and milestone |
| Search                    | Title-and-body search within a repository, file contents across one repository, and the whole instance for repositories, issues and merge requests |
| Notifications             | The inbox, unread or all, marked read singly or in bulk                                                                            |
| Repository actions        | Fork, bookmark, watch and mute, pin, archive, visibility, topics, branch protection, and dependency checks with their status       |
| Builds                    | Build list, job picker, logs, and cancelling one that is queued or running                                                          |
| Releases and wiki         | Releases list, detail, create, edit and delete. Wikis read from the same instance                                                  |
| Organisations             | Members and roles, teams and their repository grants, create and rename                                                            |
| Your account              | SSH and PGP keys, email addresses, and your profile — description, website, about text and links                                    |
| Explore, feed and profiles | Discovery, activity, contribution graph                                                                                            |
| Markup                    | Bodies and comments are written and rendered in the format they were stored in. Org renders natively through [[https://gitbay.org/krz/org-swift][OrgSwiftUI]] — selectable text, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver — rather than in a web view |

Everything the CLI can do reaches the app, except what is SSH-only by
design: minting an API token, and deleting or transferring a repository,
both of which want a typed confirmation or carry a credential.

* Signing in

As =gitbay= requires, your SSH key is your identity. To login to the mobile app,
you will need to mint a bearer token:

#+begin_src sh
gitbay auth token create --name iphone --scope full --ttl 90d
#+end_src

Alternatively, =--scope read= works too, but a read-only token cannot comment or
merge.

Any gitbay instance works. You just need to enter the host at sign-in.

* Building

Requires Xcode with an iOS 26.5 SDK. Swift 6 language mode, default =MainActor=
isolation.

#+begin_src sh
xcodebuild -project gitbay.xcodeproj -scheme gitbay \
  -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 17' build
#+end_src

Dependencies resolve over SSH ([[https://gitbay.org/krz/org-swift][krz/org-swift]]) and HTTPS ([[https://github.com/raspu/Highlightr][Highlightr]]), so a key
that can reach gitbay.org is needed to build.

* Tests

=gitbayTests= is hermetic and runs offline; network calls go through a stubbed
=URLProtocol=.

#+begin_src sh
xcodebuild -project gitbay.xcodeproj -scheme gitbay \
  -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 17' \
  test -only-testing:gitbayTests
#+end_src

=gitbayUITests= includes a live smoke suite that talks to a real instance. It is
opt-in, and skips without both variables. Environment reaches the test runner
only with the =TEST_RUNNER_= prefix:

#+begin_src sh
TEST_RUNNER_GITBAY_UITEST_LIVE=1 \
TEST_RUNNER_GITBAY_UITEST_TOKEN=<token> \
xcodebuild -project gitbay.xcodeproj -scheme gitbay \
  -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 17' test
#+end_src

* Contributing

To contribute, create a merge request with your changes:

#+begin_src sh
gitbay mr create --source <branch> --target main --title "..."
#+end_src