DevLog[0]: Announcing Lemon, a Lemmy client for iOS! 🍋[pre-alpha, WIP] - lemm.ee
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EDIT: I’ve created a community for the Lemon app: !lemon@lemm.ee [https://lemm.ee/c/lemon] ! Hello community! 👋 I wanted to drop a short announcement: I’m building an iOS client for lemmy, named Lemon 🍋! It is still very much in early development, only having one week of dev time so far. I’m not yet ready for users (unless you want a lot of bugs 😅). I’ll be sharing some development logs throughout the journey. Consider this the first of (hopefully many) entries! Story time: For years, I was an avid user of Apollo for Reddit [http://apolloapp.io]. I was an “ultra subscriber” and occasional donor, since I loved the app and Christian Selig [https://twitter.com/ChristianSelig] was such a kind and engaged developer. He managed to build both an inspiring app and community. I was heartbroken when I learned Apollo would shut down due to Reddit’s API changes. Lemon for Lemmy as an homage to Apollo and is greatly inspired by his amazing work (Thank you, Christian!) Features Some of the currently-working features are: - 🔒 Logging in and registering (including instance search + information browsing such as user count, location, accepting memberships, etc!) - 💡 Light and Dark modes - 🔼 Upvoting / downvoting posts with optimistic updates and rollbacks (including swipe to vote!) - 🚀 highly performant feed with infinite scroll - 📚 persistent cache to read while you’re offline My goal is to make this a fully featured Lemmy client for iOS, and hopefully one day as good as Apollo is/was! That’s all for now. Here’s some screenshots. Until next time! Dark Lemon [https://i.postimg.cc/ZR2pfP7Z/Lemon-for-Lemmy-dark.png] Light Lemon [https://i.postimg.cc/KjTLCKwT/Lemon-for-Lemmy-light.png]
      • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m still learning how this works. Do I need to login to that instance too in order to upvote or comment?

        • Rogue_General@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          No need to log in to that instance. As long as you are logged into lemmy.world, just click on this link to comment: https://lemmy.world/post/247760

          In the future, keep this format in mind to easily access and subscribe to other instance’s communities:

          • [your instance]/c/[subreddit name]@[foreign instance]

          In this case, it would be:

          Click on that link, and you’ll see you can now magically subscribe to that community. You can also see the post you guys are discussing:

        • tylerthehuman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          thats what i’m trying to understand…how many different websites and usernames do i need to signup with??

          • Rogue_General@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Only one. As long as you are logged into lemmy.world, just click on this link to comment: https://lemmy.world/post/247760

            In the future, keep this format in mind to easily access and subscribe to other instance’s communities:

            • [your instance]/c/[subreddit name]@[foreign instance]

            In this case, it would be:

            Click on that link, and you’ll see you can now magically subscribe to that community. You can also see the post you guys are discussing:

            • tylerthehuman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              what’s difficult for me is that i have to fix URLs to interact with them. so in this case, i’m on lemmy.world right now. but if i go to that cross post, it jumps URLs to lemm.ee and required to sign in.

  • d4rknusw1ld@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    iOS 17 on iPhone 14 pro max is love to test! Apollo ultra subscriber and now currently testing mlem and memmy.

  • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    this is great! i saw Sync is coming for Lemmy and am looking forward to good apps for iOS. best of luck to you!