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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 2 years ago

The app looks really nice and already well polished. This smells really nice for the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Downloaded, so far i’m impressed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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

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

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

Will definitely add multiple account support

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

Awesome. Thank you.

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

Not added yet unfortunately

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It looks great! Logging in doesn’t seem to be working though not sure why.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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

Thanks mate

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

Can it be used for kbin as well?

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

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

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

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

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

Is it open source?

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

Looks good on my 12 Mini. Thanks!!

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

This is fantastic. Thank you for posting!

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