Mlem for Lemmy

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Official community for Mlem, a free and open-source iOS Lemmy client.

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This is a forum for discussion about Mlem. We welcome a degree of general chatter, but anything not related to Mlem may be removed at moderator discretion. This is not a forum for iPhone/Android debate. Posts and comments saying nothing but "iOS bad/I use Android" will be removed as off-topic.
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When will insert feature here be implemented?
- Check our issue board--if there isn't an issue open for the feature you want, feel free to open an issue or make post! Just remember that devs are people too--we're doing this for free in our spare time, and building a quality app takes a lot of patient work.
Is Mlem available for Android?
- No. Mlem is written using SwiftUI, which is not currently supported on Android. If such support becomes available, we will look into bringing Mlem to our Android friends.
How do I join the beta?
- We are currently testing our new 2.0 codebase on TestFlight. We have two beta groups: a weekly group that receives the current state of our development branch every week, and a stable group that receives a curated pre-release build at the end of each development cycle.
- Join the weekly beta
- Join the stable beta
How do I join the dev team?
- Head over to our recruitment channel, or go straight to our GitHub and read CONTRIBUTING.md to get started.

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[ APP STORE RELEASE ] Mlem for Lemmy is live on the App Store! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ericbandrews@lemmy.ml to c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml

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It's here!

Download Mlem for Lemmy on the App Store

Please note: it may take a couple minutes for it to be available in all regions. We just pressed the button.

Mlem for Lemmy is out of beta and live on the App Store!

Thank you to everybody who tested our app and submitted feedback, whether through TestFlight or a GitHub issue or a post on the community. Your insight has been an integral part of making this app what it is, and we look forward to working with you to make it even better in the months to come.

The past month and a half of hard work has been an amazing journey, but this is just the beginning. We hope you give it a download and join us as we strive to bring you the best mobile Lemmy experience we can.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

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[–] Jessica@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does it require iOS 16? I am on 15.7 on an iPhone SE Second generation

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are a couple smaller reasons, but the big one is that we use NavigationStack to handle our core view navigation--it's a truly monumental improvement over the old NavigationView, and lets us do things like build an iPad version without rewriting all our nav stuff, but it is unfortunately only compatible with iOS 16+.

I know that's probably not a super satisfactory answer, but I'd rather be transparent than spin some PR nonsense at you.

[–] Jessica@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the quick reply! I just wanted to confirm it wasn’t something superficial. I’ll look into updating and see what the performance hit looks like

[–] feifei@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

The less headache for the devs, the better. I fully support this decision

[–] Deez@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that mean an iPad view is on the cards?

[–] ericbandrews@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! We're planning to get it into beta as part of our 1.2 milestone, which should start development early August

[–] Deez@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Great news, looking forward to it!

[–] windowsphoneguy@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just in case you're not aware, your phone is compatible with iOS 16

[–] Jessica@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh I know. I’ve just been burned many times in the past with upgrading iOS on older phones so I generally avoid it these days until I have a compelling reason to upgrade. Forced obsolescence and all that