cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1249875
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Note this is very much a work in progress still and this is very barebones. I plan to continue work and submit nightly builds on TestFlight, so be on the lookout for the new releases.
Happy scrolling!
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
Excellent! Good to see a second iOS app.
Using it now to post this comment. I’m really liking it, it’s very smooth. Wish there was compact view but I’m sure its coming soon. I might switch over from mlem
Is email required? I am having issues logging in with my existing account, that only has username and password. Said could not find username or email.
Testing it now, seems to work pretty well. Aside from search, which you said you’re working on, links don’t seem to work? It would also be nice to have somewhere to see replies to your comments/post. It would also be nice to see what instance each community comes from. Thanks for your hard work!
@gkd@lemmy.world
Commenting through memmy. I love swiping right to upvote comments!
Glad to hear it’s working well! Let me know if you run into any issues or have ideas!
Here’s an idea: in apollo you swipe left on a comment to collapse the current commet’s thread, this would be nice too.
Thanks for the cross post! Please feel free to let me know if you guys run into any issues!
@gkd@lemmy.world This looks like a fantastic start! As an Apollo user it’s a very familiar experience.
At the very least I’ll try to test and submit bug reports. If I can find the time I’ll try to do some development too. (I could do with a React side-project…)
Always great to have more options! But this seems very similar to Mlem in terms of goals (Apollo like). Why not combine efforts?
Underlying technology is completely different. One is Swift, one is React. It talks about this on the GitHub.
This is one of those cases where two is better than one, because not everyone can contribute to a Swift app, and multiple projects isn’t splitting effort, it’s bringing on people who wouldn’t otherwise be involved at all.
Plus, probably worth having a few going just because there is so much activity now. Mlem is moving a little slower than I had hoped so while I’d prefer a native Swift iOS app, this one is already a little more functional and it’s the first release.
Those are some of the main reasons. Also, the fact that it can be easily released as an Android build as well is nice, especially for users who would want a more Apollo-like feel on android devices. I have not personally tested Jeroba, but from screenshots I have seen (while it does look great!) it doesn’t have the same look as some of the old Reddit apps.
Bottom line is this is a huge preference thing. I don’t want to take anything at all away from Mlem. If you know Swift and think you can contribute to that project then by all means you should! Looks like a great project. Glad that there’s so many people working on things for Lemmy already!
Looks great! Bit of a pain during login because it would bring my cursor back to the server line after each letter when I was typing in my username
Fixed that in the latest release. Sorry about that…
@z2k_ Holy crap that’s amazing. I might need to pull my iPhone out of the drawer
I’m not the dev. @gkd@lemmy.world deserves all the credit. He’s amazing.
I plan to support Android too, by the way. It is already about 90% functional, mainly just some styling issues due to a few quirks between iOS and Android rendering. I’ll keep you guys all posted!
bro your app is super stable as well! I was having a lot of crashes with Mlem, not to discredit their work they’ve got a cool multi profile feature that’s really nice. Appreciate your work!
This looks amazing!!
Are you able to convert into Android too??
nvm ignore my comment, i saw the option to compile for Android!
I’m not the dev but I think that’s the intention based on the readme on GitHub.
It’s written in Expo/React Native which means it’ll be easier to support both iOS and Android.
Yup. I took it for a spin on a simulator and things are about 90% functional out of the box. There’s some weird scaling issues with the text, but I believe that to be the patchwork way I’m rendering the markdown right now. Once I finish the markdown parser it should be the same across both platforms.
As far as I know kbin doesn’t have API access enabled at the moment. They’re still trying to finalise how they do it. This means that apps can’t communicate with it just yet.
this is great! I really enjoy the UI and the feel of this app.
@gkd@lemmy.world - any plans to allow for adding multiple accounts?
