Related: I binned off Core Data for Big Mail 2, and instead have been using the phenomenal GRDB by @groue
Not only is my app now faster and less buggy, but it’s so much easier to reason with. No weird managed contexts and elaborate dances to pass stuff between threads. Just simple, safe, Swift structs.
(Also, the documentation is INSANE) https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift
There's also a sister package, GRDBQuery, which gives you a @Query property wrapper for SwiftUI (similar to @FetchRequest in Core Data)
You're then able to write views that automatically update when anything in the database changes.
Here's all the code needed for the account picker in Big Mail. So clean.
Big Mail 2, nay, ALL my apps, wouldn't be possible if it weren't for the generous contributions of others in the OS community.
I can't wait to give back, so that's why I plan to open source all of Big Mail's core packages: SwiftIMAP, SwiftSMTP, and SwiftEmail.
They're all super Swifty, modern, and hopefully instantly familiar to anyone who's used Foundation. #Swift
@phill are there some thoughts about gpg support directly in Big Mail? There is no propper comfortable solution for this.
@phill That would be so great, and as far as I know, a truly unique feature. It's something I've been missing on iOS for over a decade. I use iPG Mail since I got my first iPhone in addition. I asked the developer of it, if there was a way to create a plugin for the native Mail app a few years ago. He replied that it wouldn't be possible due to Apple's security restrictions. He also said that he didn't want to create a full Mail app.