PartyBox is an iOS/iPadOS app containing tools and games (wip, coming soon) for parties!
Built for Hack Club's Siege Week 14 (the final one!) following the optional theme of Party
It supports iPhone and iPad, as well as Mac and Apple Vision Pro using Designed for iPad!
As per usual, this is the way I recommend, but there are other options available such as AltStore or SideStore; any way of sideloading apps onto iOS should work.
- Install Sideloadly and its dependencies; the ones you'll need depend on what OS you use, the website lists them!
- From the Releases tab, find the latest release; it should be at the top. Download the attached
PartyBox.ipafile. - Using a cable that supports both charge and data transfer, connect your device to your computer, tap
Trustand enter your password if prompted to, then open Sideloadly. - In Sideloadly, click the file icon with the
IPAtext and select the previously downloadedPartyBox.ipafile. - Select your device in the
iDevicedropdown, and make sure the name matches the device you wish to sideload PartyBox to. - In the
Apple IDtext field, enter your Apple Account/ID's email. If this account is a free developer account, you will have to resign PartyBox every 7 days; with a paid developer account this becomes 365 days. - Click the
Startbutton, and enter your Apple Account/ID's password when prompted. This will be sent straight to Apple, and no one else apart from you can read it. Not me, and not the Sideloadly developers. - Wait for the app to install, and then launch it! You may need to enable Developer Mode or trust the developer, your phone will prompt you if this is required.
For the final Siege week, the theme of party was very fitting! I looked at my options, and I landed on the idea of an all in one app for parties.
With people moving to having more and more of their life on their phones, why not also have a toolkit for parties on there too??
- Swift (amazing language, what basically every modern app for Apple platforms is written in provided the developer has some sanity)
- SwiftUI (amazing ui framework, easy to use, cant beat it, ty Apple!)