cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4709002

Hi everyone!

It’s been quite the journey, but Avelon is finally on the App Store!

Click here to download!

The app is includes a lot of awesome features requested by the community, including:

  • Sleek design that fits right in on iOS & iPadOS
  • Highly customizable look & behavior
  • Mark read on scroll & hide read posts
  • Customizable swipe gestures
  • Multiple account support
  • Smart link previews in posts and comments
  • Support for videos, gifs, photos & other media
  • Custom font support
  • Write replies with markdown highlighting
  • Privacy focused - the app has no tracking of any kind
  • Gallery mode + hide bars on scroll = full immersion … and a lot more!

Screenshots

Here’s some cool app store screenshots of the app:

Developing this app has been one of the best development experiences I’ve had, and I feel very privileged and happy to have been able to contribute to Lemmy in this way. Nothing is more motivating than seeing so many people already enjoying the app and providing suggestions and feedback.

I really hope you enjoy Avelon, and I’m looking forward to hearing more about what everyone thinks. Keep the feedback coming!

Thank you, Sigve Rokenes

  • edric
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    121 year ago

    Oh boy, if this can play gifs and videos natively without opening the in-app browser, it will definitely be front runner for the best app so far.

  • @ciaocibai@lemmy.nz
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    81 year ago

    Looks great. I’ve downloaded it and look for to trying it out and seeing how it compares to Memmy.

  • I need NOS
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    71 year ago

    Congratulations on the release! Is the Test Flight build going to be updated going forwards, or will it be just the main release?

    • evgizOP
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      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      The testflight version is temporarily outdated just now cause I had to focus on getting the release ready.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

      • I need NOS
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        21 year ago

        Awesome, thanks! I’m more than happy to stay on the test flight and report back any issues I find!

  • @ymhr@lemmy.world
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    71 year ago

    Love how it looks! Is there any chance of getting a ‘skip to next top level comment’ button that Apollo and other clients have?

    • evgizOP
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      71 year ago

      Yup, definitely wanna add this. The swipe-to-collapse-thread gesture is the closest thing atm

  • Chozo
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    41 year ago

    It looks really nice! Any plans for an Android version, or is this gonna be iOS-only for now?

    • evgizOP
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      161 year ago

      The app is written natively for iOS, so an android version is not possible unfortunately.

  • Javish
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    The phone app is basically perfect. Not sure how I feel about how the iPad version looks in landscape mode. Maybe if the gray area to the left & right was BLACK, it would work?

    Plans for alternate / custom app icons?

    • evgizOP
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      51 year ago

      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.

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        Thank you for the info! Solid start!!! 🤙🏽

        Calling all artists! Creative app icons 🙏🏽

        Even a dark icon to replace the white one would be a good start.

  • @ApeNo1@lemm.ee
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    Visually great. One thing I could not see was the ability to block communities or users for ALL browsing. This has been valuable to filter out bot users just reposting reddit content and also communities that I am not interested in (nsfw that still manages to come through or communities in a language I do not understand).

    • evgizOP
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      21 year ago

      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

  • @kowcop@aussie.zone
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    Just an observation coming from voyager and previously from Apollo… there is something up with the touch spot for comments. I have never had problems with other clients but for whatever reason I always manage to miss hit the comments link and click on the group instead. Other than that it feels like this is my new Lemmy client

    Edit: it only seems to be for long group names where the group name text is directly above the comments link

    • evgizOP
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      11 year ago

      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?

      • @kowcop@aussie.zone
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        Ok… see this screenshot

        https://ibb.co/swLTfk2

        The red dot at the bottom is where I would normally tap to see the comments. Muscle memory has me tap there from years of using these apps. I am not sure if there are other places to tap, but that is where I tap. 9/10 if I tap that red place I will end up accidentally getting confidentially_incorrect rather than comments

        • evgizOP
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          31 year ago

          Ah ok, yeah that makes sense. I’ll look at tweaking the touch target to make it easier to tap!

          • toshex
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            21 year ago

            Can confirm I also had to tap 4-5 times on the comments icon/count before I got it right. Otherwise it took me to the community and not the post. In my experience I had to tap below the actual number to get it to work.

    • evgizOP
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      51 year ago

      Not open source, but happy to talk more about the implementation if people are interested