2y ago

Lunar for Lemmy 0.5.0

It's been amazing to see all the fresh apps popping up for Lemmy! I've been having a blast making my own app and learning iOS development.

I’ve just released Lunar for Lemmy version 0.5.0.

Check out the post image for a TLDR on what’s released with screenshots.

It's still not available on TestFlight yet unfortunately, there are still a few essential features I would like to add before releasing:

Click on URL attached to the post opens the link in an in-app browser/external browser
Collapsable and expandable comments
Collapsed by default post body
Functional upvote and downvote buttons
Search communities
Navigate to communities from posts view
Markdown formatted post body and comments
Upvotes and downvotes in comments
Subscribe button inside community info view
Subscriptions when logged in.
Subscribed communities posts page

Once these have been added, it will be released for TestFlight. (Hopefully by the end of the month) Follow the progress on the board here: https://github.com/users/mani-sh-reddy/projects/3

If you're curious and want to take a peek, you can run a preview on your iPhone using a Mac and Xcode. The instructions are in the GitHub repository, so feel free to give it a try and share your thoughts.

As always, I welcome contributions. If you would like to contribute, please get in touch/create a PR. I am still very new to iOS development so any help is appreciated.

https://github.com/mani-sh-reddy/Lunar-Lemmy-iOS

Anyways, here is what's been updated in v0.5.0

Added

Login Page and account information persistence to Keychain
Redesigned settings page
4 new app icons
Instance selector with 7 popular instances (custom instances coming soon)
Image popover with zoom and pan features
Debug Mode
Haptics during the login flow and for upvote & downvote buttons
Redesigned post metadata buttons
Reset app button

Changed

Included instance URL in Explore Communities Page
Minor UI design changes
Better divider between posts

Fixed

Background thread publishing bug
Tab resetting to feed view on loss of app focus
Graphical glitch when swiping down to refresh

10 comments

iOS only?
- Yep, iOS for now and a potential release for macOS too. I won’t be able to bring it to android as it’s written in swift.

Here's the app specific community !lunar_for_lemmy_ios@lemmy.world
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lunar_for_lemmy_ios@lemmy.world

Thank you for this, always good to see more iOS options (and I'm on Android)

I'm on Android but I'm loving that iOS users have more clients
- Most of the times it's the opposite

Android any time soon? Pretty please?

- Bruh
- It’s nice to see there’s so many apps. Honestly nothing too special about my app. I only started this so I can learn more about iOS development. But there are a few small things that might make the app different to others eg Written in Swift and SwiftUI while supporting iOS 15 and above. Kbin support (I’ve had a go playing around with the API but it doesn’t seem to work at the moment) Free and open source!