Most of my time last update was spent on push notifications, takes a while to set up a dedicated server, APNS integration and all that stuff. With holidays and other work on my plate I havent had the time to work on Avelon all that much. Apollo was a full time project years in the making, hopefully Lemmy will grow to eventually support that kind of full time work

Didn’t expect to see my own app in softwaregore 🥲

If it’s any consolation the error is just straight from the API

Settings/General/Sorting/Show Additional Options should solve the first issue! Working on something I think will satisfy the second

Ah ok, yeah that makes sense. I’ll look at tweaking the touch target to make it easier to tap!

Yeah, SwiftUI is still immature in many areas, so each new version adds a lot of essential features. I’m not talking fancy new things, just the basic stuff that almost every app needs. The alternative is to implement through the older UIkit which is slower to do, especially for people like me who don’t really know UIkit from before.

As for Avelon I’m using a few key features introduced with v16. Since I’m just one dev I prioritized polish and features over supporting older versions which would take much more time. Yeah, it sucks if you’re stuck on iOS 15, but that’s just what I decided to prioritize.

Not open source, but happy to talk more about the implementation if people are interested

Yup, native Swift app

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?

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.

Yup, definitely wanna add this. The swipe-to-collapse-thread gesture is the closest thing atm

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

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The testflight version is temporarily outdated just now cause I had to focus on getting the release ready.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

Coming in the next version! For both communities & users

The app is written natively for iOS, so an android version is not possible unfortunately.

Hi, Avelon is now on the AppStore!

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/avelon-for-lemmy/id6450952178

Also there’s a new app icon too:

Yeah for sure, wanna do that later. The app is mobile-first for now, but I figured some iPad support is better than nothing!

Hehh, sorry didn’t mean to startle you, your account was just a good example for a screenshot. Glad you like it!

Avelon dev here - thanks! Really enjoy Memmy as well, pretty impressive what you guys are able to do with React Native.

It’s very cool to see so much enthusiasm in the dev community. Lemmy can definitely be a place where lots of different apps & frontends can thrive to suit just about everyone.

No problem, let me know what you think!

I really prefer native apps, it’s usually way easier to get solid performance and top notch OS integration. Of course it limits the number of devices it can run on, but that’s the price you pay. I don’t think Avelon would have worked nearly as well as a PWA.