HiveDesktop - a new desktop app for accessing HIVE

I'm currently working on HiveDesktop, a pyQt5 based desktop application for the HIVE blockchain. The source code can be found on github. HiveDesktop is using beem for accessing the HIVE blockchain.

I worked already several hours on the project and learning how to use pyQT5 properly. I'm using the fbs project for creating the executables and installers.

The project is still in a very early alpha stage.

Installing the app

You can find installers for Linux, OSX and Windows in the release page:
https://github.com/holgern/hivedesktop/releases

Implemented features

Account Info

Account History

Account feed

Fullscreen video playback

Notification when new feed posts are published and for all account history items

Roadmap

• Refactoring of the source code
• Signing of the Windows exe and the installer
• Option dialog
• Better design of the GUI
• Integration of Wallet for broadcasting operation (voting, posting)
• Editor to write posts
• Show comments and votes for a post
• Allow Voting and comment writing
• Store account history in a database
• Format the account history entries
• Work on the HTML-rendering (some inline HTML are not correctly rendered)

Contribution

You are welcome to contribute by writing issues or creating pull requests.
Comments and feature wishes are also welcome.
You can download the Qt-Designer and imrove the GUI without know how to program. You can find the ui file here: https://github.com/holgern/hivedesktop/blob/master/ui/mainwindow.ui

You can create a new GUI design and attaching it to an issue or create a PR and uploading it.

Developing

You need python 3.6 (fbs works only with this version) and all packages from base.txt.

pip install --upgrade -r requirements/base.txt

for Windows you need also

pip install --upgrade -r requirements/windows.txt

You can parse the ui file with

pyuic5 ui\mainwindow.ui -o src\main\python\ui_mainwindow.py

and start the app by

fbs run

Before pushing code, please check if the frozen exe also works. First, the exe needs to be created:

fbs freeze --debug

and it can then be started.

If you like what I do, consider casting a vote for me as witness on Hivesigner or on PeakD.