How can you find the developers who work on a specific part of Home Assistant?

[FutureTense]

I’m trying to find out who the developers are that work on the iOS app. I have some suggestions but in general, it seems like the developers don’t participate much in this forum, let alone in the feature requests forum. I know they hang out in Discord, but names would be helpful.

[tom_l]

Supporting Ongoing Development of the iOS app

Hi all, There was a bit of a backlash the other day when I launched the beta testing of 2.0, as I tied beta testing directly to supporting my new Patreon. Turns out, someone (me) didn’t think to read the fine print around TestFlight, and it turns out you can’t “sell” invites. Anyway, had to scratch that idea quickly. It brought up a lot of comments though about ways people would like to help further development of the iOS app in a financial sense. It also, sadly, brought up some anger about my…

[robbiet480 (Robbie Trencheny)]

I monitor the forums frequently but only jump in if I want to reply directly to a bug or make an announcement. My presence on Discord is much more stream of consciousness though!

As for feature requests, I’m all ears, feel free to reply here or just go directly to opening issues on GitHub.

[bbrendon]

This might be of use
https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/dev/CODEOWNERS

[FutureTense]

One thing I couldn’t find about the iOS app is the differences between that and using the browser GUI. They look exactly the same. The notifications and tracking are a big difference, but I’m not sure what else is available. Is there a chart somewhere?

[robbiet480 (Robbie Trencheny)]

It’s exactly the same web UI you know and love. The secret sauce is the stuff in the background: notifications, location, Apple Watch, Today Widget, Siri Shortcuts.