Avelon 1.0.8 - push notifications, lots of fixes, performance improvements, and some nice-to-have features!
With Avelon you can explore every topic, navigate seamlessly using customizable gestures, and tailor the look of the app to your preferences. Engage in diverse conversations and discover the content you care about. Key Features - Native support for videos, gifs, photos & other media - Smart link ...
Hi everyone!
This update adds push notifications, a bunch of fixes and a few requested improvements. It also turned out that the second RC for Lemmy v19 broke a lot of things in the API, so those issues are fixed in this update too.
Here's the changelog:
Apologies for the slow communication lately, I've been in a b
Push notifications - open beta!
Hi everyone,
For the past weeks I've been working hard on a push notification service for Avelon that is finally ready for open beta! This feature involves a completely new cloud service that automatically notifies you whenever someone replies to your posts/comments, and it simultaneously supports multiple accounts you might have. Although the app itself doesn't change much with this new Testflight build, there's a lot of stuff happening in the background to make push notifications happen.
My goal with the open beta is to test the service with many more users to see how it scales under heavier load. I'm not sure how powerful of a server it'll need - and as many of you might know cloud compute isn't exactly cheap. The service isn't quite done yet, so while I keep working on it you should expect downtime and occasionally delayed notifications.
Avelon 1.0.7 out now - adds text selection, tweaks to the free tier, new pro features and lots of QOL improvements
With Avelon you can explore every topic, navigate seamlessly using customizable gestures, and tailor the look of the app to your preferences. Engage in diverse conversations and discover the content you care about. Key Features - Native support for videos, gifs, photos & other media - Smart link ...
Hi everyone,
First of all, thanks so much for everyone using Avelon and everyone who've decided to support the development by upgrading, it really means a lot! All the feedback in the post following the release of pro was definitely insightful. If you're unaware, I recommend reading the post as well as my reply here.
I've decided to push towards a 1.0.7 release a bit earlier than planned to address everyone's feedback. My goal with these changes is to provide a wider range of features in a more basic free variant, whilst offering more extensive customization options and an even better experience as an optional upgrade. This way everyone gets to try out more stuff for free, and if you want the full capabilities you can feel confident that the features work as you'd expect. This setup is more in line with other apps as well as the feedback from all of you.
In addition to tweaks to the free tier, the update contains a new text selection tool, a new d
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.
Avelon for Lemmy is now on the App Store!
With Avelon you can explore every topic, navigate seamlessly using customizable gestures, and tailor the look of the app to your preferences. Engage in diverse conversations and discover the content you care about. Key Features - Sleek design that fits right in on iOS - Support for videos, gifs, ...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4709002
Hi everyone!
It's been quite the journey, but Avelon is finally on the App Store!
The app is includes a lot of awesome features requested by the community, including:
Here's some cool app store screenshots of the app:
I figured (like some other devs) that some iPad support is better than none. Though the layout is not built from the ground up for iPad, it now fills t
Avelon release 1.0.2 (b10) adds multiple account support, profile pages, favorites, full-width swipe back and more
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2944211
Hi everyone! Thanks for all the feedback so far, lot’s of really great suggestions and useful criticism! I’m very happy to see so many people using the app, nothing is more motivating honestly.
This update adds a bunch of requested features, including:
Since the last update I’ve also added:
Hope you enjoy the new changes, and let
Avelon for Lemmy 1.0.2 - customizable swipe gestures, a new inbox & subscriptions page and much more!
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2030083
Hi everyone!
First of all thank you for all the amazing feedback I have gotten so far. I was a bit overwhelmed by the response on my first release, but I'm happy to see so many people enjoying Avelon. This update addresses a ton of the most common feedback I have received with a lot of useful new features including swipe gestures, a new inbox and a new subscriptions page.
Community: !avelon@lemm.ee
I've just made Avelon (a native iOS app for Lemmy) available for download!
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)](https://testfliIntroducing Avelon for Lemmy - Join the open beta!
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/1358038
Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce that my iOS Lemmy app "Avelon" is finally ready for beta testing! I've been working tirelessly on the app lately and I think it is turning into a quite solid experience now. I'm very excited to hear what you think and gather more feedback before I move towards an App Store release.
My focus for Avelon has been to polish the base functionality as much as possible to ensure that the day-to-day browsing feels as good as possible. I've also done things a bit differently to make it easier for new people to try out the Fediverse. Rather than requiring new users to look through a complicated list of instances the first time, the app automatically shuffles a list of preset instances so you don't need to think about it until later when you register. This will hopefully also reduce the load on individual servers.
Avelon already supports quite a few cool features:
