Ongoing Engineering Stories

API Surface: Adopt Swift Concurrency.

• Lessen the learning curve for First-Time Contributors.
• Easier usage of OBAKitCore by other clients.
• Concurrent tasks are compiler-enforced (safer, but not necessarily faster).

Maintainability: Reduce number of third-party dependencies.

• Lack of contributors makes third-party dependency upgrades tedious.
• Many recently-released iOS SDKs and tooling are viable replacements for some of the current dependencies.
• Adopting native SDKs allows us to gain free feature upgrades with the yearly-OS updates.

Stability (OBAKit/OneBusAway app)

• There are still lots of crashes (as reported by App Store Connect).