Bitwarden native apps for iOS / Android released - but (currently) not compatible with Vaultwarden
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The first betas of Bitwarden native apps for iOS / Android have been released.
iOS Testflight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/S4OQEYYQ#09
Beta for Android: https://groups.google.com/g/bitwarden-beta-testing#09With a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance, you get an "unknown error", though.
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Hu? My Bitwarden Android app is from Bitwarden Inc. so where is the difference?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.x8bit.bitwarden
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@RazielKanos Your link leads to the classic app, based on Microsoft’s Xamarin framework.
This thread is about the new native (MAUI-based) app, see https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1b32bbz/going_native_the_future_of_the_bitwarden_mobile/?rdt=33290 -
@nichu42 said in Bitwarden native apps for iOS / Android released - but (currently) not compatible with Vaultwarden:
@RazielKanos Your link leads to the classic app, based on Microsoft’s Xamarin framework.
This thread is about the new native (MAUI-based) app, see https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1b32bbz/going_native_the_future_of_the_bitwarden_mobile/?rdt=33290Just read that link, thanks.
But, for clarity, the MAUI-based app is still a stop gap measure whilst native apps are being developed:
Early last year we began planning to retire our Xamarin-based mobile apps and made the decision to transition our mobile apps to fully native apps written in Swift (for iOS) and Kotlin (for Android).
The upgrade to MAUI
In an effort to support passkeys sooner than later, we’ve had a parallel effort going on with adding passkey support in the existing Xamarin-based mobile app. This required us to “upgrade” the Xamarin app to the new MAUI framework. As anticipated, the upgrade has not been smooth, however, we are nearing the completion of that project and plan to release this temporary solution soon. Although this is largely a new app under the hood, overall, the new MAUI shouldn’t look or feel any different than the Xamarin app that we have today.
Demo video:
Native app release
In a few months you will begin to see our completely revamped native mobile apps roll out. These new apps will look and feel different. They are completely new Bitwarden apps. Hopefully you will notice large improvements to the overall experience of using the mobile apps. The designs are different, using all native platform controls, but the layouts still follow similar user flows that we already have.
iOS
Demo video:
Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/zGD23Kd
Android
Demo video:
Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/ZYUzs48
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Apparently, this PR needs to be merged to let the new (beta) apps work with Vaultwarden: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/4386, see https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/pull/4386#issuecomment-2177251070
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@archos said in Bitwarden native apps for iOS / Android released - but (currently) not compatible with Vaultwarden:
Perhaps this is off-topic for this thread, but would there be any problem with hosting Bitwarden directly on Cloudron instead of Vaultwarden?
I don't think it's feasible at this time. But there is this project, which could bring a change: https://bitwarden.com/help/install-and-deploy-unified-beta/
But: Vaultwarden is free while you probably need to get a license if you'd like to use premium features on Bitwarden Unified.