It seems that many popular mobile apps nowadays have their own design language. I like uniformity between my apps so I greatly respect when an app developer takes the care to design their app to follow their OS Human Interface Guidelines. For example, apps like Apollo (and wefwef/Voyager for Lemmy) rose to popularity partly due to looking and feeling like native iOS app

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Apollo. Sigh

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I’m glad this was the top comment

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Sync for Reddit.

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Definitely. Just waiting for Sync for Lemmy, can’t be long.

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Yeah, it’s coming soon.

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The best was defintely Apollo. Memmy seems to be trying to push the native iOS UI forward, but it’s early days for that app.

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Anyone have an example of an Android app that feels like this?

Personally I don’t see the appeal of adhering to an existing design system just to make it feel “native”. I’m using Voyager on Android and it’s not native-feeling at all since Voyager is very Apple-inspired, but that doesn’t feel weird/bad. Discord is another app I use every day (though not for Lemmy) and it’s certainly not designed to feel native on either Apple or Android.

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Lemuroid and Libretube are good examples. I personally think they’re beautiful and match great with stock (Google) Android Material Design

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Yeah I think Google’s current thing is material design

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Yep, that’s what their design language is called. It’s changed a lot over the years, but still kept the same name

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