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Voyager

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Test Flight is here!

https://testflight.apple.com/join/nWLw1MBM

It's appreciated testing various versions of iOS, and ensure all functionality matches the Progressive Web App.

Comment below with any issues that don't exist in the Progressive Web App and aren't listed below.

Known issues:

  • Post photo upload doesn't work
  • Haptics needed in many places
  • Saving a photo crashes

Thanks!

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[–] ruud@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cool! Installed it to replace the PWA. Nice work!

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Howdy! I’m still new to Lemmy. Why does your username appear red to me in the Voyager app?

Are you super special? Are you dev royalty??

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Ohhh am I red in the app? Hadn't noticed :-) I'll go see a doctor. Doesn't sound good.

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

He’s like the Prime minister of lemmy.world

[–] itadakimasu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy.world founder and overall cool dude 😎

[–] fer0n@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What’s everyone’s experience so far? Mine:

  • haptics are nice
  • status bar tap is very welcome
  • the back swipe issues seems to be a bit better, but not entirely solved
  • browser appear animation is really nice
  • the scroll hiccups seem to be also better, but also not entirely gone (short time of being inactive, but it then works without me waiting a second)
  • nav bar icons are still spikey (I’m probably the only one looking that closely at it, but I was hoping that might be fixed with the native version)
[–] kobra@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I’d like to see haptics implemented when hitting the voting buttons too, not just on swipe

[–] Lord_Fluffington@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I do find it interesting that the back swipe then scroll freeze issue isn’t entirely fixed. It doesn’t stay frozen like the PWA if you keep swiping but it still latches for a sec before you can keep swiping.

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[–] avater@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

so awesome, since memmy became very unstable.

Just found one curiosity, if you post something new it would be great if it opens the keyboard directly. At the moment you still have to do an additional tap to on the comment area to bring up the keyboard!

Otherwise amazing work!

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[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can't believe how quickly you work. You're a legend. I can't wait for the Android app.

[–] Elcapitan786@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Swiping back instead of accidentally upvoting is much better here than the web app.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

to those curious, the download is only 14 megabytes and its silky smooth and appears much faster to me. it didn't remember my settings from the wefwef pwa. submitting posts and comments and votes so far all work perfectly for me.

this thing is a release candidate in my eyes.

[–] fraydabson@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Yay! Thanks for this! I’m loving it and feels like I never left Apollo more than the pwa did if that makes sense.

[–] itadakimasu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Jealous of iOS users! Looking forward to Android release!

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

By the way if you don’t mind. What programming language are you using? Is it swift UI?

Great work! I love having Voyager as a separate app on macOS.

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, this is awesome! Thank you!

I'm keeping an icon for the PWA Just In Case though

I’ve been using the PWA version of Voyager for the last month, and today I’ve experimented with the new Test Flight app.

I have just two words of feedback:

Nailed it.

[–] alaxitoo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oooh joined! Big fan of Voyager, the app is working well so far! Just a question, when will push nofications be implemented?

[–] BitingChaos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Holy shit, it's real!

I wish we could give awards on Lemmy.

[–] sdu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great work! Would it be possible to have the app or even the PWA support 120fps gestures such as on the back swipe gesture on devices with ProMotion?

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can disable 60 fps lock in safari with develop menu.

As for that being a default, Safari needs to fix this: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173434

Edit: More reading:

[–] mancy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Just found a bug, not sure if it’s already been reported: if the comment thread is longer than I think like 4 posts, when I click “x more comments” it doesn’t actually open the rest of the thread.

[–] Deemo@bookwormstory.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This probably is a nich feature, but is it possible to get deeplinks (example voyager://inbox or voyager://vger.app/inbox/unread)?

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We can definitely do deep linking with a special URL, however I want to avoid links to vger.app opening the app. One of my pet peeves are apps open that when I'm just trying to browse their site.

[–] Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Awesome! But can you please have an .ipa available for download on GitHub, so we don't need to depend on Apple for updates.

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe in the future, builds are through App Flow which doesn't have a way to make builds public, and I don't want to manually upload an ipa every release.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wait so this is now an actual app? Genuine question!

If so that’s cool!

[–] snake@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thank you for the status bar tap feature!

One thing I noticed is that the "Back" button does not always work on the posts tab, it just alternates between "Home", "All" and "Local" instead of actually taking me to the page where all my subscriptions are listed.

Edit: Actually I meant the "Communities" button, and the bug only happens when I’ve previously used the drop-down list to switch between either of "Home", "All" or "Local".

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks! The problem is it’s not replacing the current route. There should be a fix soon.

[–] Ilikecheese@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I notice when I click on a YouTube link in the PWA it opens up in the same window and takes me to the link, but when I click on the same link in the TestFlight app it opens in a separate window. Is that intended?

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not intended, just the way native apps work. At some point I will need to add code to explicitly open certain things in their app.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

would be great to make it a settings page for which media type/app to choose how to open them.

[–] techie@techy.news 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does the native app proxy through your server like the PWA, or does it connect directly with the instance? Thanks for all your work on this!

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Direct. The PWA is direct now too (except for photo upload endpoint because Lemmy bug)

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