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Mlem for Lemmy

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Mlem for Lemmy is out of beta and live on the App Store!

Thank you to everybody who tested our app and submitted feedback, whether through TestFlight or a GitHub issue or a post on the community. Your insight has been an integral part of making this app what it is, and we look forward to working with you to make it even better in the months to come.

The past month and a half of hard work has been an amazing journey, but this is just the beginning. We hope you give it a download and join us as we strive to bring you the best mobile Lemmy experience we can.

Cheers,

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Why does it require iOS 16? I am on 15.7 on an iPhone SE Second generation

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are a couple smaller reasons, but the big one is that we use NavigationStack to handle our core view navigation--it's a truly monumental improvement over the old NavigationView, and lets us do things like build an iPad version without rewriting all our nav stuff, but it is unfortunately only compatible with iOS 16+.

I know that's probably not a super satisfactory answer, but I'd rather be transparent than spin some PR nonsense at you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the quick reply! I just wanted to confirm it wasn’t something superficial. I’ll look into updating and see what the performance hit looks like

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The less headache for the devs, the better. I fully support this decision

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that mean an iPad view is on the cards?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! We're planning to get it into beta as part of our 1.2 milestone, which should start development early August

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Great news, looking forward to it!

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