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Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which is basically an exact copy of Apollo.

  Big difference appear to be that this looks like it’s proper native, not fancy web app.

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  • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Right, but it’s claimed to be a “from the ground up” build, but it’s an almost carbon copy. At least Vitager claimed to be trying to clone Apollo.

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      OP is just saying that it’s not a fork of an existing codebase. It’s all new code.

      But yeah, the UX is a shameless Apollo clone.

      Although Mlem, Avelon, Lemmios, and Memmy are all a little shameless about ripping off various Apollo patterns. A lot of the iOS Lemmy developers aren’t taking the time to think about what lemmy-specific UX problems need to be solved. All the iOS lemmy apps are feeling like Gru’s Minons. All super similar, but with slight variations.

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    • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It can still be built from the ground up but still uses the same design. If it’s a native app written in Swift not a PWA like Voyager I’d say that from the ground up still applies. Because you still need to code everything from scratch.

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      • gromdroid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s written in React Native, with some Swift modules here and there. I wrote down some more in depth behind the scenes in a previous post.

        When Apollo shut down I really missed it in my day to day use, so initially this project started out as a personal project to see if I could replace that Apollo craving. Since then the development was going so well that I wanted to share it with the rest of the community as well.

        Since then I’ve also build some things that imho are an improvement, for example:

        • the onboarding
        • the markdown editor
        • the chat interface for private messages

        It’s been really fun to work on, but now that the basis is quite stable I’ll look into features that make it more tailored to Lemmy

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  • Pea666@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Voyager is in het iOS App Store as well. Works just fine native.

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The core of the App Store of the same Ionic app code that you can also load in Safari. It’s basically just in a wrapper that allows it to be posted in the App Store, and soon, allows it to get notifications.

      The core or the app isn’t proper native. Nothing wrong with that. There are big benefits to that, but there are some issues with ionic that this developer won’t have with swift. Example: Swipe based navigation is notoriously buggy with voyager.

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      • Pea666@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The more you know…

        I found the App Store wrapped app to be much more responsive when swiping. And I like the haptic feedback a lot.

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• ddtfrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The comment sharing option and the embedded media playing looks good.

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