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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Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year agoRight, 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.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Thank you for clarifying, and for your awesome work!
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.