I know there are a ton of iOS apps for Lemmy. But what are they missing? What experiences would you like? It could be quality of life or big and ambitious features Many of you often have really good ideas and feedback, I’m looking forward to responses.

  • macniel@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    How could it be the perfect lemmy app when it only runs on iOS or respectively only runs on Android?

    • Platypus@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Because cross-platform apps inevitably feel out of step with the OS they run on. Native apps can use system components and behaviors and will almost always run better because they don’t need to be wrapped in a cross-platform framework. Admittedly a platform-locked app isn’t going to be a universally perfect Lemmy app, but it can certainly be a platform-specific perfect Lemmy app.

      With no disrespect to Voyager, its devs, or its users, this is why I can’t use that app despite its impressive feature set and high level of polish–the ui feels fundamentally wrong on iOS, and the fact that it’s a very direct Apollo clone but not written in native swift makes it feel like a knockoff.

    • Dame @lemmy.mlOP
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      8 months ago

      Well, it could launch on one platform first, doesn’t mean it’s only going to be for one platform.