Gather

gather-demo-2025-staged.mp4

a handheld companion for your curiosity, a local-first client for collecting, curating, and cultivating multimedia collections.

Available on the App Store and Google Play Store

Development

• run npm install to install dependencies
• npx expo start starts development servers cross-platform

Adding Data Sources

I still have to do some setup work to make this really easy, but you can refer to all the Are.na code for adapters to making this work. See arena.ts for syncing data and arena logic in db.ts.

IOS

if you add any native plugins, make sure to run

npm run prebuild
npm run ios

Are.na

To develop with Are.na syncing, you must set up a proper .env file with your own Are.na keys. Please message me if you want this, and I can help you set it up

Release

IOS

in order to release a new version, you have to bump the version in app.json and then run

npm run build-ios

this will produce a file like build-1698192300094.ipa inside the builds folder which you can then provide to eas submit.

eas submit -p ios

provide the filepath and then it will submit it to testflight automatically.

Common Errors

npm run ios fails with CommandError: Failed to build iOS project. "xcodebuild" exited with error code 65. Duplicate tasks error.

open ios folder in XCode and delete duplicate ShareExtension tasks. re-run.

npm run build-ios fails with See Xcode logs for full errors

run EAS_LOCAL_BUILD_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 npm run build-ios to keep logs around in local logs. inspect the logs to see what went wrong.