Heyo everyone,

This update brings a few cool new features, most notably:

  • Smart link previews
    • Now shown in comments and posts
    • Previews for communities, users and regular links
  • Image carousels
    • For posts with lots of images!
  • iPad support
  • Layout/ui tweaks
  • Bug fixes and other improvements

Check out this image gallery in the latest build to see how it works:

(just scroll through it!)

I figured (like some other devs) that some iPad support is better than none. Though the layout is not built from the ground up for iPad, it now fills the whole screen and pushes in some content. This is similar to how other apps like Apollo did it, and it looks much nicer than than a scaled up phone app. I haven’t had time to test this version much, so please let me know if you discover any weird stuff.

The update also introduces a custom markdown rendering system that enables me to add things like link previews and image carousels. Seems to work pretty well now, but could definitely be some bugs with it for certain posts - if you find any, let me know!

Hope you enjoy the update!

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I wanna do a full screen gallery mode eventually but that’s a bit more work to get all the gestures and stuff working as expected!

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💯% agree with this!! 👍🏽

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And for you running the latest update, check out these link previews:

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This is awesome!

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Hi evgiz,

Another great update 1.0.2 (27)… this time the app feels snappier than ever… I loved it…

I have come with one more request here (greedy me):

Can you make the bottom nav icons customisable??

Like changing their position according to our likes maybe…??

( I wanted the search and notification icon swap their position to maintain the visual design aesthetics… so asking this )

Thank You.

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Customizing the tab bar positions will not be a priority, got a lot of other things that I think are more important. Perhaps in the future!

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No problem!!

I appreciate your work…

The app has shaped up really well from past few updates…

Thank you.

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Hey man, I’m trying out the this latest update and it’s been great. The UI looks sleek as always. And there’s little slowdown now compared to before when switching post viewing.

I also love that you added a link preview, however can this be tweaked so that user name mentions doesn’t show a preview? But I don’t think that’s possible.

I’m also getting used to not having a hide read button. But it will be a lot better if there is a choice for one.

Over all, the update has been great. Feels a lot more stable. And thanks for adding iPad support. Will test that later.

Thank you! Keep up the good work!

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What a great app! Loving it so far. Is there any way to support you? Any version in the App Store soon?

With some polishing this will be the one I use.

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Thanks! Working towards an appstore release hopefully quite soon

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I just downloaded the AppStore version and could make that tip. Thanks, great release!

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