Hi there fellow Apple enthusiasts!
Yesterday I announced that my native iOS app for Lemmy called Avelon is finally ready for testing, and I figured some people here might also be interested in checking it out!
My focus for the app has been performance, design and ease of use. As you can probably tell I got a lot of inspiration from Apollo and other iOS-first apps - but I think I’ve added my own cool spin on both the design and functionality.
Here’s a couple screenshots of the app:
If you wanna try it out I’d greatly appreciate any feedback/suggestions so I know what to focus on next! I think the core experience is pretty solid already, but the app still lacks some important features such as adding new posts.
Avelon is developed in Swift using almost enitrely SwiftUI. For those unfamiliar, SwiftUI is the newest UI library by Apple intended to replace things like UIKit over time. SwiftUI is cross platform, so Avelon also runs on macOS actually, though the UI is not tweaked to fit mac just yet. The tech is really great to work with, and it makes it super easy to fit right into iOS. I posted some more details about the project over on the community page for the app here if you wanna check it out.
Thanks, let me know what you think!
I’m quite a fan of voyager (née wefwef), but out of curiosity, I tend to install all lemmy apps and give them a whirl.
I have to say, there is quite a lot to like about your app. I’m very curious to see where it goes next.
Downloaded, so far i’m impressed!
The speed and smoothness are amazing! Missing swipe to vote and better link handling.
Make it defaul to no NSFW post and i will recommend it to my family
It should block NSFW by default, perhaps its your instance or account settings?
Hey, one of the Mlem devs here, Welcome to the club. Be advised we are hitting issues getting on the AppStore, apparently Apple says that we are “exploiting the popularity of the Lemmy trademark”. You might have to deal with that once you submit… Good Luck, Your app is looking good. ❤️
It sometimes makes you wonder if the App store employees think before sending pushback like that.
The latest episode of ATP had a big rant about how fucking stupid app review is. It honestly seems like it’s being done by ChatGPT or something it’s so fucking stupid.
And here I thought nothing was going to pull me away from Voyager/WefWef
This is damn good
Voyager doesn’t have full screen gestures yet (swiping to get back to feed), so I’ve been looking around.
Liftoff! has so far best matched my Apollo style lurk browsing habits. Although the feed is a little more busy looking.
Gestures work no problem in Voyager here.
It does? Like I can do that from this post to get back to my feed right now.
Swipe where? Mine just brings up comment upvote if I’m on the comments, I can’t swipe back on the post either, what am I missing?
Swipe from the edge of your screen. Starting in screen is the upvotes, a swipe that starts off screen takes you back.
Thank you for that!
But yeah, that’s not true to Apollo’s full post swipe back option. I have to put my phone down to reach over to the left edge in Voyager.
I upvote comments a few times per year, but need to get back to the feed multiple times per session.
Hopefully gesture options come out in the future.
Wow, thank you. Finally a compact view that is actually compact while still telling me everything I need to know about a post. You know it’s good when it takes all of 5 seconds to get used to the layout.
Thanks mate
Looks good on my 12 Mini. Thanks!!
It fails to log in for me. It gets past the 2FA step but then fails to log in afterwards. Strange.
This is fantastic. Thank you for posting!
The 3rd party app scene flourishing for Lemmy is the perfect “fuck you”.
Downloaded. Looks really good so far
Awesome, looking forward to hearing what you think!
Didn’t even finish submitting my feedback before you pushed an update lol. Keep up the good work
I’ll check it out. Thanks for your hard work!
Can it be used for kbin as well?
Kbin currently does not have a public API which is what most developers use to create apps, as such very few people are working on kbin apps and AFAIK they’re not public for testing yet. Artemis by a developer named Harriet (Harriette?) is the only one I know off the top of my head and she’s still in the private stage.
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