cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1249875
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This looks amazing!!
Are you able to convert into Android too??
I’m not the dev but I think that’s the intention based on the readme on GitHub.
It’s written in Expo/React Native which means it’ll be easier to support both iOS and Android.
Yup. I took it for a spin on a simulator and things are about 90% functional out of the box. There’s some weird scaling issues with the text, but I believe that to be the patchwork way I’m rendering the markdown right now. Once I finish the markdown parser it should be the same across both platforms.
As far as I know kbin doesn’t have API access enabled at the moment. They’re still trying to finalise how they do it. This means that apps can’t communicate with it just yet.
Always great to have more options! But this seems very similar to Mlem in terms of goals (Apollo like). Why not combine efforts?
Underlying technology is completely different. One is Swift, one is React. It talks about this on the GitHub.
This is one of those cases where two is better than one, because not everyone can contribute to a Swift app, and multiple projects isn’t splitting effort, it’s bringing on people who wouldn’t otherwise be involved at all.
Plus, probably worth having a few going just because there is so much activity now. Mlem is moving a little slower than I had hoped so while I’d prefer a native Swift iOS app, this one is already a little more functional and it’s the first release.
Those are some of the main reasons. Also, the fact that it can be easily released as an Android build as well is nice, especially for users who would want a more Apollo-like feel on android devices. I have not personally tested Jeroba, but from screenshots I have seen (while it does look great!) it doesn’t have the same look as some of the old Reddit apps.
Bottom line is this is a huge preference thing. I don’t want to take anything at all away from Mlem. If you know Swift and think you can contribute to that project then by all means you should! Looks like a great project. Glad that there’s so many people working on things for Lemmy already!
Great! Thanks for clarifying. Definitely; more is better. Just based on the limited information available it wasn’t clear to me how this one was different.
Oh it’s built with expo, nice!
Because some of us saps don’t have a phone capable of iOS 16+ which is what Mlem is targeting. Memmy runs great.
Thanks for the cross post! Please feel free to let me know if you guys run into any issues!
I love it so far, better than mlem for me
Any particular reasons you like it better then Mlem?
Not him, but I like how stable it is compared to Mlem. But UX wise I still like Mlem better for now. But good to see two apps already like this, both really good so far.
Faster, smoother, clearly caches more aggressively so much less halting when scrolling, smaller fonts so more compact interface.
Both are so early in development though it’s basically irrelevant. Tomorrow Mlem could push a new build that includes their new interface that I’ve seen in the GitHub PRs and I’ll be back to that one. For now it’s just like Mastodon was, using all of the apps and seeing which one ends up fleshing out into a fully functional experience.
@z2k_ Holy crap that’s amazing. I might need to pull my iPhone out of the drawer
I’m not the dev. @gkd@lemmy.world deserves all the credit. He’s amazing.
I plan to support Android too, by the way. It is already about 90% functional, mainly just some styling issues due to a few quirks between iOS and Android rendering. I’ll keep you guys all posted!
bro your app is super stable as well! I was having a lot of crashes with Mlem, not to discredit their work they’ve got a cool multi profile feature that’s really nice. Appreciate your work!
Amazing, thanks for the hard work!
I’ll keep you guys all posted!
Please certainly do!
This looks great! Does it work with kbin.social accounts as well?
Edit: never mind, I should have read all the comments first. Looking forward to seeing how this app progresses!
Love it so far! Like some others here, I’d also love to see kbin integration if that’s possible. Thanks for putting this together!
Already using it to post this, looks awesome for v0.0.1. Keep it up :)
Gonna give this app a try! Cannot see a clear search feature. Other than that looks very clean!
I have something in the works and should have it released today or tomorrow.
@gkd@lemmy.world This looks like a fantastic start! As an Apollo user it’s a very familiar experience.
At the very least I’ll try to test and submit bug reports. If I can find the time I’ll try to do some development too. (I could do with a React side-project…)
Showing a lot of potential, already like what I see! Can’t login with kbin currently so just hoping that will change, otherwise I’d be commenting from there now :D
Swipe options nailed the bare-bones already and the right options in the right spots! I’d love to have share as the last option on swipe left. Also needs vibration when ‘unselecting’ (?) a swipe option.
Performance is already great, smooth and no crash yet other than when trying to login with kbin. Looking forward to seeing this grow!
FYI, I don’t think kbin has enabled API access yet which is why apps won’t work with it
Fixed the KBin crash.
Sharing I was thinking about having a little “…” at the top of the comment to offer an action sheet with sharing. But I like the swipe idea too. And of course the post share sheet will be there too.
Just tried logging into kbin and crashed during submission.
Although it should have been fixed to not crash (release was only just pushed though), it does not currently support KBin. I will look into implementing the API and support this. Might be a bit, since it will require actually writing an API wrapper (from what I have seen anyway), but that isn’t too much work. I’ll put it on the list.
Just tested this. This app is AWESOME! Please keep working on it!! Will keep testing for bugs!
@gkd@lemmy.world the lead dev is browsing this post so I’m sure he’s seeing everyone’s feedback.
Thanks for the feedback!
Looks great! Bit of a pain during login because it would bring my cursor back to the server line after each letter when I was typing in my username
Fixed that in the latest release. Sorry about that…
Other suggestions would be: Search feature (which you mentioned you would be rolling out soon) A way to block communities we don’t want to see (only option now is subscribe)
It looks great! I’m definitely taking it for a spin and will create an issue on GH if I find any.
Excellent! Good to see a second iOS app.
