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[Self Promo] I've just made Avelon (a native iOS app for Lemmy) available for download! (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by evgiz@lemm.ee to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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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.

Download Avelon (Testflight)

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!

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[–] AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It fails to log in for me. It gets past the 2FA step but then fails to log in afterwards. Strange.

[–] signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Same here. It won’t accept my MFA code no matter what.

[–] srxavi@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Have you planned to add a way to tune the font settings?

[–] coalbus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] lackthought 2 points 2 years ago

is it open source?

[–] Tom_bishop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Make it defaul to no NSFW post and i will recommend it to my family

[–] evgiz@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It should block NSFW by default, perhaps its your instance or account settings?

[–] thecapyking@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Downloaded, so far i’m impressed!

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Downloaded. Looks great. Is there a plan to allow multiple account logins?

[–] evgiz@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Will definitely add multiple account support

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Awesome. Thank you.

[–] Frosty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is what the fediverse needs, nice work

[–] M1lt0n@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Would love to have an option to block communities/users. Unless I’m dumb and not seeing the option.

[–] ForegoneConclusion@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Very nice! Loving the Explore tab for finding communities, and the animations feel good!

I have a feature request: dark mode thats more of a dark gray than "amoled black". I find the contrast of white text on pitch black too much.

Edit: ...and iPad support would be awesome!

[–] paulsab@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I like where you are going with this. Looks good so far.

I have one feature request. I really liked the way that Apollo would share pictures and videos. A typical use case for me would be find a funny image. Long press to share, send the shared image to any other app that supported sharing using the built in share sheet. That way I could do all kinds of different things. Save to my NAS, run it through a Shortcut send, or to a friend via whatever app.

Keep up the good work!

[–] Manuel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Downloaded , thank you ! It’s missing atm font size

[–] Atramentous@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

FYI, you can also do this on a per app basis via the control menu

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[–] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately this requires iOS 16. Not going to lose my jailbreak for it sadly

[–] alcasa 1 points 2 years ago

Is it open source?

[–] ChicagoCoder9@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is probably my favorite out of all the ones I've tried. Only one that comes close is Mlem.

Would love to see some gestures in here but otherwise it is great for a first pass. Nice work! Excited to see where it goes

[–] ChicagoCoder9@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Back for some more feedback.

Comment threads are a little overwhelming and need some spacing or distinction between each individual comment.
I also can't figure out how to see my posts and go to them with ease (checking for replies and such)
No notification area...so I'm missing out on replies to my posts.

Other than those things, it is so smooth and a pleasure to use.

[–] geekcologist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Excellent job with this app! Like it so far. Will report bugs as discover them. Thanks for sharing!

[–] KEG@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is fantastic. Thank you for posting!

[–] skellener@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Can it be used for kbin as well?

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[–] micha 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Great start. Performance is better for me than with Memmy and Mlem! Looking forward to how it evolves.

Swipe actions I miss most atm.

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