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Arctic
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Arctic is a Lemmy client for iOS built on pure Swift. It currently supports iOS 15+ and Lemmy v0.17+
Get the latest version on TestFlight, or check it out on the AppStore.
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I used arctic a little, but decided to build my own alternative. It’s very actively maintained.
The clock is kinda ticking with all these apps, since Lemmy V1, in the next year ish, will bring breaking changes. I’m committed to Lemmy V1 support, and if you don’t like my app, I’m pretty confident Voyager will also have Lemmy V1 support.
I wasn't sure about trying yet another app since Arctic really hits a sweet spot for me but yours is really good. It looks polished and is laid out how I generally prefer. Does it support any push notifications for DMs, replies, etc? Also if you have a TestFlight build I'm happy to run that as well.
Not yet. I’m trying to have Blorp not depend on any remote web server at all. I was thinking about doing local notifications, but the caveat would be 1) ~15 delay and 2) app has to be running in the background.
Not depending on a web server means lower cost/maintainer for me, and people can more easily fork my project. Then for the notification content, I’m thinking it’s a summary “15 unread replies and 2 dms”.
Is that a good enough solution or is that significantly worse than push notifications in your opinion?
I think that’d be fine generally. I’m on Lemmy enough it’s likely to be in the background most of the time and I don’t really get a ton of notifications anyway. If it makes it more maintainable I think it’s a solid compromise