OPNSense on App Store

[Xames81]

Could be possible on future allow OPNSense firewall be configured via app store application? Could be great.

I'm using UNIFI system and the app is fantastic, better than the firewall itself.

[fabian]

What are you talking about? Android, iOS, Ubuntu or a common package for a common GNU/Linux distribution?

[Xames81]

I'm talking of Apple store. Sorry

[fabian]

So I'm out. I don't even have a build environment for it nor is it easy to get one because as far as I know, I would need a new Mac (for Xcode) and a store account. Maybe someone else here has this and wants to do it.

[xames]

Could be great and app for iphone.

[bartjsmit]

The mobile CSS works fine for me.

Bart...

[steffda]

Everybody has this App already... its called Webbrowser.

Or in other words:
What exactly should do this app better than the web-based GUI?
What should be the difference between such an App (in my opinion just a slimmed down browser) and a full featured Webbroser?

[fabian]

Everybody has this App already... its called Webbrowser.

That should work if the screen is wide enough.

What exactly should do this app better than the web-based GUI?

It could integrate better in the OS like for example it could authenticate on the captive portal when the device connects to the wireless network. It could also use native UI components and it would need less traffic, but at the cost of a second frontend.

A limitation is that it only works well for the API enabled endpoints, but most core components are not API enabled yet.

What should be the difference between such an App (in my opinion just a slimmed down browser) and a full featured Webbroser?

see previous

[xames]

Are you really discussing the advantages of an app versus a web browser? With this philosophy the app store would have no application.

An app allows you to focus more content and have more versatility of buttons, content and offer better performance than a simple browser.

[steffda]

"Are you really discussing the advantages of an app versus a web browser?"
Yes. In an App has a really advantage, please... but the most Apps which show some web-content are just slimmed-down web browsers. They don't have any advantage.
An App needs to be developed and maintained for different OSs, for which it's not developed, it's excludes users.
A web browser is just there on every system and OS. So no extra development and maintenance is necessary, nobody with "wrong" OS will be excluded.
There is just needed a responsive theme.

[fabian]

A web browser is just there on every system and OS. So no extra development and maintenance is necessary, nobody with "wrong" OS will be excluded.

Nice try. If you have read the last release note, you would have seen that there are some patches to make things work in Internet Explorer. This is because it is missing lots of features in JavaScript (ES6+).