An alternative client for Slack written in swift.
The official client for me was pretty resource heavy. With around 8 teams active the memory consumption was above 1GB.
This inspired me, together with my interest in learning a new programming language to develop a simpler client, natively for os x.
The client is build with the vision of giving as much of the features, but to keep it from being distractive and resource heavy
Memory usage after launch with 4 connections:
Disclaimer
This is my first project I have ever written in Swift. I am pretty sure that many improvements can be made (and will be made) over time. Feel free to point me to better implementation techniques if you feel they can improve the client.
Pull requests and bug reports are welcome!
- Multiple clients using legacy tokens
- Chatting
- Groups, private channels, public channels
- User list with live status
- Links and markdown rendering of messages
- Emoji rendering (most of them)
- Live adding of channels via other clients
- Notification of new messages (without control)
What does not work
Many things, but that is the point. I will try to add more features but I will add them one by one:
- Image viewing
- Drag and drop image uploading
- Snippet viewing
- Channel creation
- Notification manager
- Status manager
- Suggest yours!
If you want a full featured Slack client, you should use the official client.
Download the latest release and copy it to your applications folder.
Then go and create legacy tokens
Last is to add the legacy tokens to the settings pane (CMD+,)
Restart the client for the new connections to be initialized.
If you would like to contribute, clone the repository.
As this project is using CocoaPods, you should run pod install after cloning.
After running pod install open the SlackDesk.xcworkspace
All code goes thorough pull requests together with an issue explaining the motivation for the code.
All help is welcome and much appreciated.
The project has no coverage currently as this was more a POC, all new development should have coverage.