Before we begin, we would like to announce that Input has been renamed to Mergin Maps as of May 2022.
After a long wait and weeks of development, we finally managed to release Mergin Maps on iOSlatform.
Update: Mergin Maps app is now available through Apple App Store:
We are pleased to announce the Beta release of Mergin Maps on iOS TestFlight. To install the app, simply click on this link from your iOS device: https://testflight.apple.com/join/JO5EIywn. This will open a window to first install TestFlight app. After that, you should be able to install Mergin Maps on your device.
Mergin Maps is the first QGIS based app to be released for iOS. Using Mergin Maps , you can open, view and edit your QGIS projects and data on your iPhone/iPad.
For setting QGIS projects, transferring data/projects and capturing data, you can see the documentation here.
In addition to the great works of the QGIS community in the past to port QGIS to Android devices, we had to do major changes to be able to have Mergin Maps on iOS. Below are the steps we had taken in the past couple of years, to pave the way:
As a first step, we decided to create a new library in QGIS based on Qt Quick for QGIS. This allowed us to easily create platform independent apps for touch devices.
The library has been built on components ported from QField project. In addition, we have been improving the library and added support for new types of edit form widgets. Details of the QGIS Enhancement Proposal for QGIS Quick can be found here.
By providing static data providers, it was possible to compile code of data providers directly into qgis_core library. This was a major step, as iOS does not support dynamic libraries. Details of this QGIS enhancement can be found here.
We will be delighted to hear your suggestions and feedback, mainly critical ones so that we can improve the application and user experience. After ironing out any issues reported during the Beta testing in the TestFlight, we will publish the app to the App Store.
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