All in one App ? about spots

[zenangst]

Hey @aashishdhawan, interesting idea. One of the "key features" of Spots is that you decouple UI from controller implementation, which in turn means that any screen can potentially display anything that you desire. The side-effect of that feature is of course that you could create applications like the ones that you mention. However, we haven't really given it much thought when it comes to build apps like WeChat based of Spots. We do however, have been tinkering a bit with a tvOS implementation for our iOS team, which kind of works in the similar fashion like the thing you are describing.

We made one endpoint that fetches controller data, like the title, cache key that should be used and what endpoint it should fetch from. The factory constructs a collection of controllers that are displayed in a tab bar. Each controller just fetches content from said endpoint and displays it on screen. The rest is handeld by Spots rendering engine.

It can be quiet powerful, especially if you serve up Spots friendly payloads directly from the backend so that you can skip all client-side JSON parsing entirely. Not to rain on this parade or bring up something that could be considered negative but this is pretty much the same approach as serving up a normal web-page, except that it is native 😁

[zenangst]

@aashishdhawan should we just close this issue or do you want to discuss it further? :)

[aashishdhawan]

yes please, lets close this. @zenangst