Heyo everyone,

This update brings a few cool new features, most notably:

  • Smart link previews
    • Now shown in comments and posts
    • Previews for communities, users and regular links
  • Image carousels
    • For posts with lots of images!
  • iPad support
  • Layout/ui tweaks
  • Bug fixes and other improvements

Check out this image gallery in the latest build to see how it works:

(just scroll through it!)

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 the whole screen and pushes in some content. This is similar to how other apps like Apollo did it, and it looks much nicer than than a scaled up phone app. I haven’t had time to test this version much, so please let me know if you discover any weird stuff.

The update also introduces a custom markdown rendering system that enables me to add things like link previews and image carousels. Seems to work pretty well now, but could definitely be some bugs with it for certain posts - if you find any, let me know!

Hope you enjoy the update!

    • shuntipepperment
      1•1 year ago

      Hi,

      This bug is still present in the latest build:

      Clicking on the Heading of the first post in any post feed is taking the page to the communities introductory page which is present above that post feed.

      Example: please try clicking on the headline of first post of Avelon community (Introducing Avelon for Lemmy line )here would take the page to the about page is Avelon.

      • evgizOPM
        0•1 year ago

        Hmm, seems like this only happens if you have a fairly large text size, no? I’ll make sure it’s fixed for the next build.

        What do you think about the new features?

        • shuntipepperment
          2•1 year ago

          Hey,

          Today I learned that I can customise the gestures according to my liking by clicking on them and can change their functionality via pop up window… ( I can interchange the SAVE and REPLAY functionalities )

          Never knew this before… ( Silly me )

          Thanks man… really awesome…

        • shuntipepperment
          2•1 year ago

          Hi evgiz,

          I have a very very very small request for you… I know I pop out every now and then with smallest of the small nitpicks which might annoy you often…

          You have fulfilled most of my requests earlier too and I’m really thankful for that.

          Here goes that small request:

          Please swap the position of search and notification icon in the lower nav bar… if you do this small code change I won’t ask for the custom nav bar option I asked in the other post which you said is of least priority at the moment ( Which I totally understand )

          Please consider this one small request before the big AppStore launch…

          Thanks man.

          • evgizOPM
            1•1 year ago

            No problem, your feedback definitely helps so keep it coming!

            I think you’re in the minority here, I personally prefer to have search to the right side for instance. Perhaps I’ll add a “shuntipepperment tab layout” setting just for you :p

        • shuntipepperment
          1•1 year ago

          Just checked for smaller text sizes also, I think it’s a hit and miss in most of the case… can’t exactly say this is happening only for the larger sizes…

          The newly introduced features are good one…

          Especially the link preview is a must have… Happy to see the Avelon is getting feature rich…

          Can’t wait to see Avelon soon in app store so that many will discover this cool app.

          Keep up the good work. 👍🏽

        • shuntipepperment
          1•1 year ago

          One more heads-up:

          1. The link preview only enlarges the list if a page has too many links… ( for 50 links it generates 50 link previews making the list to grow with 100 entries with duplicates )

          My question is that, Is this supposed to work like this or anything can be done to reduce the list and nullify the duplicates ( Kind of inline previews maybe )??

          Example:

          Please check how the link preview enlarges the page by checking any one of the posts in this below community.

          https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities

          Here this community shares 10-20 trending communities each days.

          1. Noticed that Short and Medium Left swipe functionalities in gestures have been swapped ( Earlier it was Short for REPLY and medium for SAVE ),… is it intentional or a bug ??

          I felt the medium swipe for save was a standard setting across other lemmy/reddit apps and got used to it. 😅