EDIT: I’ve created a community for the Lemon app: !lemon@lemm.ee !

Hello community! πŸ‘‹

I wanted to drop a short announcement: I’m building an iOS client for lemmy, named Lemon πŸ‹!

It is still very much in early development, only having one week of dev time so far. I’m not yet ready for users (unless you want a lot of bugs πŸ˜…).

I’ll be sharing some development logs throughout the journey. Consider this the first of (hopefully many) entries!

Story time:

For years, I was an avid user of Apollo for Reddit. I was an β€œultra subscriber” and occasional donor, since I loved the app and Christian Selig was such a kind and engaged developer. He managed to build both an inspiring app and community.

I was heartbroken when I learned Apollo would shut down due to Reddit’s API changes.

Lemon for Lemmy as an homage to Apollo and is greatly inspired by his amazing work (Thank you, Christian!)

Features

Some of the currently-working features are:

  • πŸ”’ Logging in and registering (including instance search + information browsing such as user count, location, accepting memberships, etc!)
  • πŸ’‘ Light and Dark modes
  • πŸ”Ό Upvoting / downvoting posts with optimistic updates and rollbacks (including swipe to vote!)
  • πŸš€ highly performant feed with infinite scroll
  • πŸ“š persistent cache to read while you’re offline

My goal is to make this a fully featured Lemmy client for iOS, and hopefully one day as good as Apollo is/was!

That’s all for now. Here’s some screenshots. Until next time!

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It would be also helpful if you could create a separate community for the app.

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Yes! Great call out. This was on my todos but slipped through the cracks.

I’ve just created !lemon@lemm.ee which will be our home base.

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