[We've just put out a quick bump to 0.10.9 to include a few fixes. Notes below apply to 0.10.8 and 0.10.9]

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.9 Release

iOS:

• App Store - preview release as 0.10.7(32)
• TestFlight (will be visible later today)

Android:

• GitHub
• Play Store
• If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Hey everyone! I know it's been a few days since we've released but we've got a feature packed release today! Thanks to all our users and the continued feedback, keep it coming!

Change log

• Added MP4 and some redgif support (jjcomer)
• Added swipe gesture actions! (shocklateboy92)
• Added photo cropping before upload! (mykdavies)
• Added code of conduct and tweaks for iOS release (mykdavies)
• Redesign of home tab and themes colors (swmarks & a_minh)
• Fixed alignment of post pills/chips (mykdavies)
• Redesign of compact view to be more compact (zachatrocity)
• Added help text on account page to help guide the user (mykdavies)
• Added RU (asher) and EO (mykdavies) language localisations
• Tons of bug fixes!

Screenshots

Known Issues

• We hear your concerns about dark mode and will address these.
• Swipe actions against posts don't always update the post's icons.

What's coming

• iOS and Android full release! We'll keep test flight and early access going for beta testers!

Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Please note that many lemmy servers are under massive pressure today, so you may see many unexpected error messages and silent failures. Please bear with us all!

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.4 Release

iOS:

• TestFlight (will be visible later today as build 0.10.4.26)

Android:

• GitHub
• Play Store
• F-Droid is coming
• If you want to stay up to date with the latest releases before it gets on Play Store or F-Droid, checkout Obtainium

Changelog

• Added core support for deep links like liftoff://lemmy.world/c/liftoff (shocklateboy92)
• Fixed an issue preventing adding certain instances (swmarks)
• Added translate option to menu on posts and comments (mykdavies)
• Fixed locale not updating (zachatrocity)
• Fixed comment sorting and added Top 1, 6, & 12 Hr. post sort order options (zachatrocity)
• Fixed markdown parsing of lemmy links (zachatrocity)
• Fixed an issue where on-screen keyboard could cover up the comment text input field (zachatrocity)
• Fixed an issue that caused the keyboard to open when exiting a post (zachatrocity)
• Fixed an issue where selecting chat for comment sort would crash (zachatrocity)
• Changed theme for buttons throughout app to follow Primary Color (swmarks)
• Added ability to close fullscreen images with single tap (jjcomer)
• Fixed markdown parsing of lemmy links (zachatrocity)
• Internal project & build updates (shocklateboy92 / jjcomer)

Known Issues (In progress)

There are still some things we’re working through, so here’s a list of our top priorities:

• Account Settings aren’t being saved, error is displayed
• Check our GitHub issues list for a full list

Contributions

As always, contributions are welcomed and encouraged! We have a great community on GitHub and Matrix so don’t hesitate to contribute!

Screenshots

Dark mode

Light mode

Selecting a theme colour

For those of you wondering what all the fuss is about, here's a quick introduction to the app.

Yes, it’s yet another app for Lemmy, but based heavily on the mature but now abandoned Lemmur project, with a few updates to make it run with the current API and some minor changes to the UI.

Written in Flutter, so it is very multi-platform. We currently have builds available for testing for Android and iOS (also running on iPad and Macs [Apple Silicon only for the moment]). Brave souls can try building it for Linux or Windows and report back on their experiences!

Preview it on iOS at TestFlight or on Android at GitHub.

The source is released under GPL 2.0 and is available at GitHub for inspection, download, build, issue logging and contributions, so go and get it!

Features:

• Fully featured for end users: posting and commenting fully complete.
• Sorting and UI customisation options.
• Light Mode, Dark Mode, System Mode.
• Multiple accounts on multiple servers.
• Bookmark your favourite posts and comments.
• Localisation (work in progress).
• Full search support (posts, comments, users, communities).
• Support for direct messaging.

And here's a few screenshots:

Gorgeous Card view

Compact view

Settings

Reply to post

Reply to comment with rich text controls

User profile

Bookmark posts and comments

Full search

Built for Android (not released yet)

Runs on iPad and Mac (in TestFlight)

Limbo and Limmynade have joined forces, and will continue development together as Liftoff!

The past couple of weeks have been tremendously exciting times for all of us as events elsewhere have led to a massive growth in interest in and usage of Lemmy.

Our two separate projects both started with the intention of bringing an existing open-source code base Lemmur up to date, with the aim of helping new users to have a great first experience of Lemmy, while giving existing users access to many rich features. As soon as we became aware of each other we realised that we would work much more effectively by combining our efforts. Read more about what makes Liftoff! special.

We are:

Zach—Extensive experience in Enterprise full stack architecture and infrastructure.

Michael—Many years experience of developing and managing commercial and open source software projects.

Liftoff! is written in Dart for API support and Flutter for front-end development, meaning that it can run wherever Flutter runs. Our primary targets right now are Android and iOS, but the sky’s the limit!

Our current development priorities are to:

• Ensure that the app runs robustly on iOS and Android platforms.
• Identify and address any major bugs affecting key functionality
• Work to improve the user experience on both platforms.
• Release 1.0 version

Beta builds now available on TestFlight and will soon be available on F-Play and Google Store. (Note that the TestFlight page still refers to it as Limbo, but it does indeed install as Liftoff!)

Liftoff code is made available under GPL2.0 and can be found at https://github.com/liftoff-app

We have already had tremendous support from enthusiastic Lemmy users as separate projects and we look forward to continuing to work with you all. Code contributions, bug fixes, issue reports and suggestions are all welcome, so please join us on our journey into the unknown!