It’s been amazing to see all the fresh apps popping up for Lemmy! I’ve been having a blast making my own app and learning iOS development.
I’ve just released Lunar for Lemmy version 0.5.0.
Check out the post image for a TLDR on what’s released with screenshots.
It’s still not available on TestFlight yet unfortunately, there are still a few essential features I would like to add before releasing:
- [ ] Click on URL attached to the post opens the link in an in-app browser/external browser
- [ ] Collapsable and expandable comments
- [ ] Collapsed by default post body
- [ ] Functional upvote and downvote buttons
- [ ] Search communities
- [ ] Navigate to communities from posts view
- [ ] Markdown formatted post body and comments
- [ ] Upvotes and downvotes in comments
- [ ] Subscribe button inside community info view
- [ ] Subscriptions when logged in.
- [ ] Subscribed communities posts page
Once these have been added, it will be released for TestFlight. (Hopefully by the end of the month) Follow the progress on the board here: https://github.com/users/mani-sh-reddy/projects/3
If you’re curious and want to take a peek, you can run a preview on your iPhone using a Mac and Xcode. The instructions are in the GitHub repository, so feel free to give it a try and share your thoughts.
As always, I welcome contributions. If you would like to contribute, please get in touch/create a PR. I am still very new to iOS development so any help is appreciated.
https://github.com/mani-sh-reddy/Lunar-Lemmy-iOS
Anyways, here is what’s been updated in v0.5.0
Added
- Login Page and account information persistence to Keychain
- Redesigned settings page
- 4 new app icons
- Instance selector with 7 popular instances (custom instances coming soon)
- Image popover with zoom and pan features
- Debug Mode
- Haptics during the login flow and for upvote & downvote buttons
- Redesigned post metadata buttons
- Reset app button
Changed
- Included instance URL in Explore Communities Page
- Minor UI design changes
- Better divider between posts
Fixed
- Background thread publishing bug
- Tab resetting to feed view on loss of app focus
- Graphical glitch when swiping down to refresh
iOS only?
Yep, iOS for now and a potential release for macOS too. I won’t be able to bring it to android as it’s written in swift.
Here’s the app specific community !lunar_for_lemmy_ios@lemmy.world
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lunar_for_lemmy_ios@lemmy.world
Thank you for this, always good to see more iOS options (and I’m on Android)
I’m on Android but I’m loving that iOS users have more clients
Most of the times it’s the opposite
Android any time soon? Pretty please?
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Bruh
It’s nice to see there’s so many apps. Honestly nothing too special about my app. I only started this so I can learn more about iOS development. But there are a few small things that might make the app different to others eg Written in Swift and SwiftUI while supporting iOS 15 and above. Kbin support (I’ve had a go playing around with the API but it doesn’t seem to work at the moment) Free and open source!
