Thanks @gaurav on the udpate, any expected timeframe for this? justo so I can plan a couple of project I would need this for.
Cheers,
Canāt give a accurate timeline but Iām hoping couple of weeks
plus one one for barcode reader. And to use it to find data in the app itself also.
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My colleague and I started using BDK recently and we have both been very pleased so far (this was not the case with previous companies we looked into/worked with). BDK offers great solutions at an incredible value and they have been very helpful. I am hopeful that they are very successful and continue to build out their features. 
(And in case you were wondering, there is zero incentive for me to complement BDK. I am just a client that found them on this forum. I simply want to give credit where credit is due.)
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Thank you @ben5!! Much appreciate the feedback 
Hi @gaurav , I have been testing your application and I liked it, it feels completely native, but, do you have permission for GPS, geolocation and Google Maps integration?
Hi @joelalcudia
Yep, work in progress and on track. Likely to be a part of next update
great, Iāll wait for you to have this update and Iāll definitely acquire it for android and ios.
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This looks very promising. I have a yelp-like web app. A problem I have with the web is that I have to ask the user for permission to use his/her location **every time ** he/she opens the website.
In a native app, I would only have to ask for location sharing permission only once and it will be allowed forever. Does BDK deal with location?
Yep 
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Any rough idea when the next update will be deployed?
Iām really looking forward to trying it out once geolocation and Google Maps are supported!
Itās ready. Iām writing up the demos, documentation and project page changes. Will be available in the next few days
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Great job with this @gaurav. Will the next update include the barcode reader capability?
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Yep
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Hey @gaurav this seems amazing, actually I am using dropsource to connect my bubble app and a ios app with good results, how do you compare to them? Also, I read somewhere and canāt find it anymore youāre not planning to implement touch id/face id, am I wrong? This is a must for me. I am just trying to understand if make sense to me to star again ti build an ios app from scratch with another platform ( which seems more obvious) or keep using what I have done. Thanks:)
Sorry I bet youāre super busy writing the docs and demos but how do updates work?
If I make changes to my Bubble app, will the native app update itself without the user having to update the app via the app store?
Yep thatās correct. Your bubble updates go through directly without the user needing to update their native app
Just released new version addressing these features Update your demo app using testflight (iOS) / play store (android)
Hey @caeroa,
Thatās a great question. I actually had once tried dropsource when it was in early stages for my app. And it quickly became evident that there was a major trade-off: Speed of development. Bubble is amazing when it comes to iterating your app. If you have a webapp & backend powered by bubble combined with native app built on dropsource, your ātime taken to make changes and deployā shoots up several times in my experience. For some apps it may make sense if you donāt expect to make many changes or if your native app is very simple / does a small subset of things that your webapp does.
Think of BDK Native as a cross between Dropsource & a Wrapper. A good example will be the native list type template capability I added in the release today. Itsā a purely native screen, but the content is styled and filled-in by bubble. The communication between the native engine and bubble app is all behind the scenes and seamless.
I do plan to implement it eventually but its quite low on priority list. Reason being there are capabilities which are useful to a wider set of users at the moment (e.g. native footer tabs). The % of phones having touch ID * the % of apps using it * the % of bubblers wanting it is lower than other capabilities at the moment.
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[Update] May 15, 2019
New version released. Check out the updated app to try out new native capabilities like
- Device location tracking (build the next Uber)
- QR / Barcode scanning (or maybe Amazonā¦)
- Native header button
- Persistent on-device text storage
- Generate list style native screens dynamically from your bubble app
Cheers,
Gaurav
theBDK.com
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@gaurav itās amazing what your building here. Great job.
I have a question and sorry if youāve already responded to it before.
Will I have to request a rebuild everytime I make a change to my app? Or you have a testing system where I will be testing as I creat my app and when Iām ready to generate the apk (for Android) I request the build?
Iām a bit confuse about your response above.
Are you saying I just need to build once and submit to the playstore and thatās it (like gonative) . And when I update my app no update is required from the user?
If this is the case why would I need multiple builds from you.
Again sorry if youāve answered these and I didnāt get it.
Thanks and good luck with this.