OH 3.0 UI support

[digitaldan]

Hi @timbms and @weakfl , as mentioned in openhab/openhab-webui#633 , there is work to support the new UI in the android client, i'm not sure if there is another thread on this for IOS, but if not then let's track it here.

It would be great to have the IOS client support our new UI in a webview. This would be selectable along with the different sitemaps and should feel seamless. Ideally, the app would default to the last view used, so if you use the new UI, thats what would be selected next time you launch , and the same for a sitemap. This way existing users could default to what they know, and new users would have the new UI.

The ticket referenced above goes beyond this and allows communication between the WebUI and native app for things like themes or notifications.

I created a POC way back in May when we were testing the UI and possible options for embedding it, its not much, just adding a webview as something to navigate to, and populating the sidebar with OH3 tiles. My branch is at https://github.com/digitaldan/openhab.ios/blob/oh3-ui and more specifically the main view is at https://github.com/digitaldan/openhab.ios/blob/oh3-ui/openHAB/OpenHABWebViewController.swift . I can open a PR , but my Swift is embarrassing at best, and i'm not sure how you would like to proceed.

[timbms]

Makes sense to have support for OH3 UI. Let's make it.

[LaborEtArs]

Hi!
Has there been any progress on this? Is there some kind of 'maintainer' for the iOS app?
In fact, my main focus would not be the iOS app (as the OH3 webview support by placing it on the iOS homescreen is quite OK for me (except the terrible icon)), but the watchOS extension.
Unfortunately I'm more the ObjC guy...

[timbms]

I have brought Dan's fork as a branch into the openhab-ios workspace #605.
It 's not working yet! Needs to be localised, but it is an excellent starting point to get this going.