SyncAssist is back from break and hitting the ground running! This past week, we’ve been fleshing out our plans for this semester, preparing for our visit to Freedom Scientific’s office in Clearwater, and cleaning up our code. Finally, the long standing “Remote-Control” branch that’s 62 commits ahead and 12 commits behind main will be merged — huzzah!

After we deliver our pitch at Clearwater, our main priorities for the project will be abstracting away the Jitsi internals and having a cleaner interface for sending arbitrary data, as well as beginning development for the mobile app. To avoid having to buy Macs for everyone, we’ve decided to use Expo along with React Native, which manages the underlying iOS and Android systems so that we can focus on using purely React. More detailed mobile development plans are in the works, but our main goals are to reuse as much code as possible and to decouple the logic from the UI.

Stay tuned for updates on how our project pitch goes, and until next time!