Orbit

Orbit is an iOS/iPadOS app for space related activities!
It includes an ISS tracker, a list of people currently in space, some space jokes, and a spacebar clicker game; built for Hack Club's Siege Week 10.
It supports iPhone and iPad, as well as Mac and Apple Vision Pro using Designed for iPad!

Demos

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Video

YouTube link (unlisted)

How to get Orbit

As per usual for all my Siege projects, this is the way I recommend, but there are indeed other ways to sideload apps onto iOS/iPadOS/etc devices such as AltStore and SideStore; they will all work, there's no reason for them not to!

1. Install Sideloadly and its dependencies; if I remember correctly there are none on macOS but Windows needs iTunes and iCloud not from the Microsoft Store; the Sideloadly website will have links to all dependencies you need for your OS.
2. From the Releases tab, find the latest release - it should be at the top -, and download the attached Orbit.ipa file.
3. Using a cable that supports both charge and data transfer, connect your device to your computer, tap Trust if promped to and enter your password, then open Sideloadly.
4. In Sideloadly, click the file icon with the IPA text, and select the previously downloaded Orbit.ipa file.
5. Select your device in the iDevice dropdown, and make sure the name matches with the device you wish to sideload Orbit to.
6. In the Apple ID text field, enter your Apple Account/ID's email. If you use a free Apple developer account, you will need to reinstall/resign Orbit every 7 days; with a paid dev account you only have to reinstall/resign Orbit once every 365 days!
7. Click the Start button, and enter your Apple Account/ID's password when prompted. No one apart from you and Apple will see this password - not the Sideloadly devs and not me.
8. Wait for the app to install, and then launch it! If you are prompted to enable Developer Mode or trust the app/dev, so do.

Inspiration

Space has always been a fascinating topic for me, and so has location-based tracking, so combine that with this week's Siege theme being Space, it was the perfect opportunity for me to combine these interests into one app: a space toolkit with an ISS tracker!

Tech stack

• Swift (what basically every modern app for Apple platforms is written in, if the developer has some mental sanity)
• SwiftUI (what the app's UI is built with; incredible UI framework, does most of the work for me, stupid easy to use, tyvm Apple)
• Open Notify APIs (http://open-notify.org, Orbit uses both the ISS current location API and the people in space API.)