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)

Avelon is developed in Swift using almost enitrely SwiftUI. For those unfamiliar, SwiftUI is the newest UI library by Apple intended to replace things like UIKit over time. SwiftUI is cross platform, so Avelon also runs on macOS actually, though the UI is not tweaked to fit mac just yet. The tech is really great to work with, and it makes it super easy to fit right into iOS. I posted some more details about the project over on the community page for the app here if you wanna check it out.

Thanks, let me know what you think!

  • @bisqEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    Does it have Apollo’s full width swipe back? That’s the one thing I have yet to see implemented with any other app ever. As someone who just broke their wrist it’d be a damn godsend.

    • evgizOPEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      I really want this too actually, but I honestly have no idea how Apollo did this. Might have to write the whole iOS-navigation-UI-stuff from scratch which is a bit much. I considered adding a floating back button of some kind - not quite the same, but better with a broken wrist hopefully.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•1 year ago

        Here you go. It was a custom implementation but i don’t know enough about iOS development to say how difficult it would be to implement.

    • @akazooEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Liftoff has this feature. You just need to do the TestFlight build

      • @bisqEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Just got liftoff, it’s so perfect!!! Thank you ❤️

      • @bisqEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Ooh thank you

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Hmm, what do you mean by this exactly? Dragging from anywhere on the right-hand edge of the screen?

      • evgizOPEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        In Apollo there was a setting that allowed you to swipe to go back from anywhere, not just from the edge of the screen. Super nice if you have a large phone since you don’t have to stretch your fingers as much.