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Hi there fellow Apple enthusiasts!

Yesterday I announced that my native iOS app for Lemmy called Avelon is finally ready for testing, and I figured some people here might also be interested in checking it out!

My focus for the app has been performance, design and ease of use. As you can probably tell I got a lot of inspiration from Apollo and other iOS-first apps - but I think I've added my own cool spin on both the design and functionality.

Here's a couple screenshots of the app:

If you wanna try it out I'd greatly appreciate any feedback/suggestions so I know what to focus on next! I think the core experience is pretty solid already, but the app still lacks some important features such as adding new posts.

Download Avelon (Testflight)

Avelon is developed in Swift using almost enitrely SwiftUI. For those unfamiliar, SwiftUI is the newest UI library by Apple intended to replace things like UIKit over time. SwiftUI is cross platform, so Avelon also runs on macOS actually, though the UI is not tweaked to fit mac just yet. The tech is really great to work with, and it makes it super easy to fit right into iOS. I posted some more details about the project over on the community page for the app here if you wanna check it out.

Thanks, let me know what you think!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not seeing a way to favorite/save a post for later. Am I just missing it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not added yet unfortunately

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

That’s alright! It’s a work in progress. It’s really impressive as it is to be honest, even though it has some ways to go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It fails to log in for me. It gets past the 2FA step but then fails to log in afterwards. Strange.

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

Same here. It won’t accept my MFA code no matter what.

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

I love the app but it would be great if it would show a preview of text posts on the home page so I don’t have to click on the post to read it.

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

Have you planned to add a way to tune the font settings?

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

Wow, thank you. Finally a compact view that is actually compact while still telling me everything I need to know about a post. You know it's good when it takes all of 5 seconds to get used to the layout.

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

is it open source?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make it defaul to no NSFW post and i will recommend it to my family

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Downloaded. Looks great. Is there a plan to allow multiple account logins?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will definitely add multiple account support

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

This is what the fediverse needs, nice work

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

Would love to have an option to block communities/users. Unless I’m dumb and not seeing the option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very nice! Loving the Explore tab for finding communities, and the animations feel good!

I have a feature request: dark mode thats more of a dark gray than "amoled black". I find the contrast of white text on pitch black too much.

Edit: ...and iPad support would be awesome!

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

I like where you are going with this. Looks good so far.

I have one feature request. I really liked the way that Apollo would share pictures and videos. A typical use case for me would be find a funny image. Long press to share, send the shared image to any other app that supported sharing using the built in share sheet. That way I could do all kinds of different things. Save to my NAS, run it through a Shortcut send, or to a friend via whatever app.

Keep up the good work!

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

Thanks mate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Downloaded , thank you ! It’s missing atm font size

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

If you increase the font size in the iOS settings Avelon should update as well. I might look at an in-app-setting at some point but I'll prioritize some more important features first!

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

FYI, you can also do this on a per app basis via the control menu

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

Unfortunately this requires iOS 16. Not going to lose my jailbreak for it sadly

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

This is fantastic. Thank you for posting!

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

Is it open source?

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

Excellent job with this app! Like it so far. Will report bugs as discover them. Thanks for sharing!

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

This is probably my favorite out of all the ones I've tried. Only one that comes close is Mlem.

Would love to see some gestures in here but otherwise it is great for a first pass. Nice work! Excited to see where it goes

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

Back for some more feedback.

  • Comment threads are a little overwhelming and need some spacing or distinction between each individual comment.

  • I also can't figure out how to see my posts and go to them with ease (checking for replies and such)

  • No notification area...so I'm missing out on replies to my posts.

Other than those things, it is so smooth and a pleasure to use.

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

Downloaded, so far i’m impressed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Great start. Performance is better for me than with Memmy and Mlem! Looking forward to how it evolves.

Swipe actions I miss most atm.

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