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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.
Looks great. I’ve downloaded it and look for to trying it out and seeing how it compares to Memmy.
If it’s better than Memmy let me know
I use both and I prefer Avelon most of the time. It's sleeker and more responsive, probably because of the native code.
Wait, is Avelon based on Swift?
Yup, native Swift app
Thanks I installed it now Memmy has some potential but honestly it was a bit glitchy
As per the other comments, seems super responsive, very Apollo like interface as well. Definitely worth experimenting with.
Memmy and Bean set the bar for iOS Lemmy apps, at least to me. Excited to see how Avelon stacks up.
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
Congratulations on the release! Is the Test Flight build going to be updated going forwards, or will it be just the main release?
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The testflight version is temporarily outdated just now cause I had to focus on getting the release ready.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
Awesome, thanks! I'm more than happy to stay on the test flight and report back any issues I find!
Love how it looks! Is there any chance of getting a ‘skip to next top level comment’ button that Apollo and other clients have?
Yup, definitely wanna add this. The swipe-to-collapse-thread gesture is the closest thing atm
Yeah quite similar but less convenient. Loving the app otherwise, very clean!
It looks really nice! Any plans for an Android version, or is this gonna be iOS-only for now?
The app is written natively for iOS, so an android version is not possible unfortunately.
Bummer, but that makes sense!
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).
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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?
Ok.. see this screenshot
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
Ah ok, yeah that makes sense. I'll look at tweaking the touch target to make it easier to tap!
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.
Is it FOSS?