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Avelon for Lemmy is now on the App Store! (apps.apple.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4709002

Hi everyone!

It's been quite the journey, but Avelon is finally on the App Store!

Click here to download!

The app is includes a lot of awesome features requested by the community, including:

  • Sleek design that fits right in on iOS & iPadOS
  • Highly customizable look & behavior
  • Mark read on scroll & hide read posts
  • Customizable swipe gestures
  • Multiple account support
  • Smart link previews in posts and comments
  • Support for videos, gifs, photos & other media
  • Custom font support
  • Write replies with markdown highlighting
  • Privacy focused - the app has no tracking of any kind
  • Gallery mode + hide bars on scroll = full immersion ... and a lot more!

Screenshots

Here's some cool app store screenshots of the app:

Developing this app has been one of the best development experiences I've had, and I feel very privileged and happy to have been able to contribute to Lemmy in this way. Nothing is more motivating than seeing so many people already enjoying the app and providing suggestions and feedback.

I really hope you enjoy Avelon, and I'm looking forward to hearing more about what everyone thinks. Keep the feedback coming!

Thank you, Sigve Rokenes

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Oh boy, if this can play gifs and videos natively without opening the in-app browser, it will definitely be front runner for the best app so far.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Looks great. I’ve downloaded it and look for to trying it out and seeing how it compares to Memmy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

If it’s better than Memmy let me know

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I use both and I prefer Avelon most of the time. It's sleeker and more responsive, probably because of the native code.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Wait, is Avelon based on Swift?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yup, native Swift app

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks I installed it now Memmy has some potential but honestly it was a bit glitchy

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

As per the other comments, seems super responsive, very Apollo like interface as well. Definitely worth experimenting with.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Memmy and Bean set the bar for iOS Lemmy apps, at least to me. Excited to see how Avelon stacks up.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Currently I’m personally using voyager, have used memmy till…. Two days ago when I found out about voyager lol. Will now try out this ine

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Congratulations on the release! Is the Test Flight build going to be updated going forwards, or will it be just the main release?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Good question! I'm still gonna use testflight before release, so if you wanna see what's coming earlier and are comfortable with a few more bugs then just keep using testflight.

The testflight version is temporarily outdated just now cause I had to focus on getting the release ready. This won't be the case in a couple days or so

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Awesome, thanks! I'm more than happy to stay on the test flight and report back any issues I find!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Love how it looks! Is there any chance of getting a ‘skip to next top level comment’ button that Apollo and other clients have?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yup, definitely wanna add this. The swipe-to-collapse-thread gesture is the closest thing atm

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah quite similar but less convenient. Loving the app otherwise, very clean!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It looks really nice! Any plans for an Android version, or is this gonna be iOS-only for now?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

The app is written natively for iOS, so an android version is not possible unfortunately.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Bummer, but that makes sense!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Visually great. One thing I could not see was the ability to block communities or users for ALL browsing. This has been valuable to filter out bot users just reposting reddit content and also communities that I am not interested in (nsfw that still manages to come through or communities in a language I do not understand).

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If you long press/tap the ellipsis button on posts you can block the community. More advanced filtering tools will be coming at some point

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The phone app is basically perfect. Not sure how I feel about how the iPad version looks in landscape mode. Maybe if the gray area to the left & right was BLACK, it would work?

Plans for alternate / custom app icons?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Thank you! I wanna do more custom icons, but I'm not that good at graphics design. If people wanna create some icons I'm definitely down for adding a community pack tho.

Avelon is designed for phones first, so the iPad one isn't on par yet. Wanna do split layouts etc at some point, but I figured basic iPad support is better than none.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thank you for the info! Solid start!!!! 🤙🏽

Calling all artists! Creative app icons 🙏🏽

Even a dark icon to replace the white one would be a good start.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just an observation coming from voyager and previously from Apollo.. there is something up with the touch spot for comments. I have never had problems with other clients but for whatever reason I always manage to miss hit the comments link and click on the group instead. Other than that it feels like this is my new Lemmy client

Edit: it only seems to be for long group names where the group name text is directly above the comments link

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, you can tap anywhere on the post except links/usernames etc to open it. Mind sending a screenshot or something?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ok.. see this screenshot

https://ibb.co/swLTfk2

The red dot at the bottom is where I would normally tap to see the comments. Muscle memory has me tap there from years of using these apps. I am not sure if there are other places to tap, but that is where I tap. 9/10 if I tap that red place I will end up accidentally getting confidentially_incorrect rather than comments

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Ah ok, yeah that makes sense. I'll look at tweaking the touch target to make it easier to tap!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Can confirm I also had to tap 4-5 times on the comments icon/count before I got it right. Otherwise it took me to the community and not the post. In my experience I had to tap below the actual number to get it to work.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Is it FOSS?

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