Hello everyone,
I’m William, and I’d like to introduce myself and say hi to the English-speaking Dolibarr community. After several years of working on Dolibarr software development, I’m excited to announce the launch of my own company, M34D, based in Normandy, France. We specialize in Dolibarr core development and mobile development for Apple platforms.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to introduce DoliApp, my new native mobile app for iPhone and iPad. DoliApp lets you access and interact with your Dolibarr data on the go. It’s available now on the Apple App Store—feel free to try it out and share your feedback. I’d love to hear what you think!
Thanks, and looking forward to connecting with you all!
Please elaborate about how it interacts with my Dolibarr. From where does the connection come?
Which data do you collect and store on my iOS device and which on your servers?
I do not think I want to make my API directly available on the internet
When I was developing DoliApp I had the same concerns, FYI DoliApp uses your secure API key to communicate with your Dolibarr.
All your data stays on device, we don’t and aren’t interested in pulling any of your business data back to ours servers. That stays private ! When you close the app, no data is stored on disk only in RAM when in use.
I understand your concerns about exposing your API on the internet but when you think about it, it is no worse the exposing your login screen. It will all depend on your password/key strength. A lot of Dolibarr’s have exposed API because data needs to communicate. It just needs to be secured correctly.
The best case scenario is to have Dolibarr behind a VPN. That way only the devices with VPN connection can access your Dolibarr.
More info here : https://doliapp.eu
Feel free if you have any other feedback.
Technically you could use a https client certificate installed on your phone to prove to the server that you are allowed to even speak with the API - but that is unfortunately not very common 