Apple Watch app
Woah! Is this a first? Actually sounds kinda cool.
It's very very basic but still kind of cool! I hope it will be expanded in the future, but my Swift skills need to improve (or someone more talented needs to help, lol)
How do I install it?
Apple needs to approve the Test Flight update - should be within 12 hours? Then it should automatically be added to your device.
Did we just get like 3 new apps drop in about 2 days?
Sync, Infinity and Voyager. Omg.
This may very well become my favorite mobile app for Lemmy. I used infinity for Reddit and I quite like the Lemmy fork (though its still VERY early In development so we shall see)
But I love a lot of them currently. This ones just clean, simple while still having great features
Is there a possibility of it being released on F-Droid?
Or just an apk download?
Seconded but seems no comments about it from the developer.
Installing my 7th Lemmy client then...:)
It's fun to try them all.
Edit: It's not available on Play Store for me at least.
Thank you for bringing Voyager to the app store. I have installed and tried it, it's just as good as its web counterpart. Nothing abnormal or malfunction, great work. The loading speed is much faster than the webapp. Though, I do miss the ability to update to the new version using the web.
Thank you ๐
Two apps in as many days. Excited to try it out!
Quite good. If you allow criticism, one particular feature that needs improvment is the smoothness of image loading. Images (in particular) and posts took quite awhile to load. Even for some images, when they have already been loaded and displayed, if I go back and then forward, the app will try to reload the images that have already been displayed before. By right, the images should've already been cached and will load straight away.
This is what I find strangely interesting with Sync, which you can take as a benchmark. The image load very fast, even at the first loading. None of the apps that I tried, e. g. liffoff and infinity can even load (half?) that fast. If you can find a good algorithm to load ~~the~~ images, it will help increase user experience tremendously.
That's quite interesting. I was very impressed with Voyager being a PWA and a bit sad that a native version was needed.
Isn't the overhead of maintaining three completely different code bases very demanding?
Or, as the benefits it seems to have are quite limited, was it a quick conversion into a native app?
I think there are certain frameworks out there that basically let you write a website and it bundles it as an app for you. Also this could just be a web view locked into their site. Either way I don't think there's a ton of overhead here.
Thank you for somehow making the best and most featured app for all of lemmy.
I noticed that the vibration feels mushier on slide gestures compared to the web app/back button swipe. For reference I'm on the Pixel 6a and use Edge as my PWA client.
Interesting! The code is the same, so it may be a Capacitor Haptics bug (translating wrong haptic)? It's technically using a different API for haptics under the hood.
There will be an update to disable haptics shortly if it's annoying :)
It's not annoying, just... how do I put it... Unsatisfying? Feels less clicky than the system default is all.
Thanks for the hard work anyways! :)
Just grabbed it and it's working great so far. I'm not really clear on the pros/cons of using a native app vs a web app, but so far the experience is pretty much identical.
Edit: I'll also add that if there's ever a "premium" version that's just the same app only paid so people can support it with their dollars, I will be happy to use my Google Play points on that.
For me, it's that the app was sluggish on Firefox but not on chrome. But it turns out, with unlock, the internet is a terrible place! So links were unreadable
The dedicated app is the best of both worlds. Fast and responsive, but can use my default browser (Firefox) for links
I see developers putting in some hard work to make the best lemmy app. imo voyager and sync are the best I tried so far in terms of responsiveness and features!! definitely leaving a review
Thank you very much!
Right off the bat, it feels much more smoother. I haven't noticed anything broken, I'll keep an eye out.
I love the subreddit migration tool.
I really wish I could disable the post collapse on click. Long click wouid be ok, but like this as I'm scrolling I'm constantly accidentally collapsing comment threads, it's really annoying.
Hey, this is on the list for settings to add. Apollo had it and it's definitely something Voyager will add.
I really like this project, so kudos! Both as PWA on the browser and in the wrapped WebView version it is GREAT! I have a feature request if it's not too complicated: would it be possible to disable the long tap gesture on images which I sometimes accidentally trigger while scrolling? In the browser it opened the share modal, here it does nothing except giving haptic feedback.
Thanks! It's my favourite app for lemmy. Even the pwa was better than many other native apps. I've some minor suggestions if you're open to them.
Kudos to you and the team for making this app happen. It is one of the greatest lemmy apps.
As a developer of PWAs, can I ask how you ported it to Android? Did you use something like React Native?
(Regardless, I love me my Voyager PWA app. thank you!)
Check these out: https://ionicframework.com and https://capacitorjs.com :)
Thanks for the app, everything is working fine!
Iโm chomping at the bit of the thought of this coming to iOS especially as a former Apollo user.
Congrats on the launch, exciting times to be sure!
Am using it already. Smooth as butter.
One of the killer features of the PWA is long tapping an image anywhere and sharing it through other apps. Not a link to the post, not a link to the image but the actual image. Long tapping an image in the native app only vibrates it and does nothing. Would it be possible to port that behavior?
Awesome, posting this from the app! My browser history thanks you!
Just saw this post a few minutes back and downloaded it.
Not sure if its my phone (samsung s22+) or something, but comments keep dropping and I need to reopen the post for the comments to show up.
When I try to comment I get blank text box, no qoute, image attachemt, hyperling etc. Do I have to use
![]() for img or im missing something?
Thanks for creating Voyager (Wefwef), been using it as my goto - works great ๐
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The back action doesn't seem to work when in the home page. I was expecting app to get closed.
Congrats! Looks good
yes!!! finally!!!!
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