Avelon for Lemmy 1.0.2 - customizable swipe gestures, a new inbox & subscriptions page and much more!
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.
Fully customizable! Head over to the new gestures page in settings
Quickly perform actions such as upvote, downvote, save and reply
Also added swipe gestures to various other parts of the UI
Inbox to view your replies
Quickly respond using gestures
Quickly open the relevant post
New subscriptions page
More compact, grouped alphabetically
Not a tab any more (reachable by swiping back in posts)
Community links now work in-app
Added ability to save comments
No way to see saved comments atm. Coming later!
Added customizability to thumbnail position
Add option to enable more sort options (6 hours, 12 hours, 3 months etc.)
Add option to show both upvotes and downvotes
Added ability to save etc. from within a post
Add swipe gestures to the in-app-webview
Add purple accent color (yellow too in previous build)
Reworked navigation system (no longer brings you to a different tab unexpectedly)
Restructured settings a bit (will be more changes here over time)
Fixes issue where your own votes would often be counted twice
Fixed some typos
Fixed alignment issues with tab bar
Fixed overflow issue with some posts (hopefully)
Attempted to temporarily fix ios17 reply crash
Lots of other things I probably should have written down earlier
Screenshots
Known Issues / Future Features
Adding posts
Viewing profile pages
Viewing saved comments
Blocking/filtering
Multiple accounts
Adjusting text size
And more stuff!
Replies have been crashing on the iOS 17 beta and I've added a temporary fix that hopefully resolves this (though it lacks markdown highlighting). I'm not on the beta yet myself so unable to verify or add a proper fix for now, will look at this once I get a device on the beta.
Given how many features this update adds, I do expect the build to be a bit less stable than before.
If you encounter any bugs/crashes I really appreciate your feedback, either here or through testflight.
Hope you enjoy the update, and let me know what you think about all the new features!
This update is great I’m really loving the way this app looks and behaves compared to a lot of the competition. I was wondering if it’s possible to implement some kind of full width swipe back feature. Like the one in Apollo that lets you swipe to the previous screen from anywhere, not just from the left side. If I recall, you had to disable the other guestures in order to use it, but my memory might be fuzzy. Either way the app is fantastic, keep up the great work.
I'd love this too, but it might require a from-scratch implementation of the ios navigation system which is a bit much work when Avelon still lacks some important features. I'm considering adding a floating back button or something for now
Good news, found a way to do this and added it as an option under gestures in the latest build! For now it overrides all other swipe gestures, but eventually I wanna support left swipes too with this option.