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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by evgiz@lemm.ee to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago

And here I thought nothing was going to pull me away from Voyager/WefWef

This is damn good

[-] Gond0r@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] milo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Gestures work no problem in Voyager here.

[-] moeggz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It does? Like I can do that from this post to get back to my feed right now.

[-] Gond0r@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

https://pixelfed.nz/storage/m/_v2/587188283494717467/bf0f52ff2-92677b/PnTdiGLYAItT/CYQARM9Snk57AY98vgvBI0ZmoqYsuKr8isVLUQxz.gif

[-] moeggz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Swipe from the edge of your screen. Starting in screen is the upvotes, a swipe that starts off screen takes you back.

[-] Gond0r@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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