1y ago

Voyager released to the App Store!

It's taken a lot of hard work and I'm excited to announce that Voyager is now on the Apple App Store!

If you have time, download the app and consider leaving a review! This helps Voyager gain visibility and legitimacy.

Get the App!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762

Can I continue to use the PWA?

Of course! The PWA is self-hostable, hackable, and receives updates quicker. However, it doesn't have access to certain native APIs that the native app takes advantage of.

Can I continue to use the Test Flight beta?

Yes, but I recommend switching to the App Store release if you aren't actively involved in testing. It's a more stable release :)

Get the App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762

Enjoy! 💙

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"The developer does not collect any data from this app."
love it <3
- I am so in love with this. What an amazing gift this app is in a world of corporations and data harvesting. If ever there’s a project that deserves our huge support, it’s this one.
  
  Best lemmy app, period. So sleek, so smooth.
- Yeah! It respects your privacy and there's no ads!
- Very suspect!
  
  “If I’m not the product, then WHO AM I??”

Congrats! I’ve been using the PWA for a few weeks and I’ve been convinced to do it for my next project.

I was hoping the "scroll freeze after swipe back" bug would've been fixed by this...
- Is this an apple only problem¿? I don't face this on android
  
  Yep it's a Safari (and its webview) bug. This is a quirk that will haunt this app and I don't think there's much that can be done from developer's side other than porting this app to a native library.
- Wait it doesn’t?
  
  It doesn't fix this unfortunately. This is a Safari/Webkit bug that still isn't fixed.
  More info for context here: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/18
- It is definitely better.
- It's still a web app really.

How can I get the old icon back? I’m not a fan of the new one.
- In the future there will be an app icon switcher :)
- App icon switching is planned for a future update. Maybe the original will be included, but I can’t say.
  
  Any options would great! Some of my favorites weren’t included in the poll

Yeah, I’ll try it! Looks a bit like Apollo! Me likey!

Been waiting for this app to be released on iOS and it DOES NOT disappoint! Hands down the best way to view Lemmy.
If it’s already this good on its first release I can’t wait to see what the future updates will bring!
As a former Apollo user, this app also brings me back to the good times of using it before it was shutdown.
Fantastic work devs!

Posting from the app, looking great! Thank you, @aeharding, you’re doing amazing work here. Migrating to Lemmy from the other place has been such a breeze with this app to smooth the way.

Whoa. This looks very promising! THANK YOU.

Looks good to me. What I still miss from Apollo is a swipe right to get „back“ to a post I just swiped left from. Something like the browser forward button.

I’m just a layman in terms of app development, but have a basic understanding of the monumental amount of work that has gone into this app, so I would like to congratulate everyone, or singular person, who has made my viewing habits as streamlined as they are.
I look forward to your success, and wish you all the praise, financial, emotional and learning support you could wish for.

I've been using the Android version, and it's awesome, y'all IOS buddies are in for a treat.

Fabulous

Great news!

Awesome! Been waiting for this to switch from Memmy, as I loved the PWA except for the limitations. Thanks for your hard work!

Awesome news! Congratulations aeharding and team! 🎉🥳
Downloaded and reviewed. :)

Already downloaded! Didn’t realize how much I missed the haptics

Congratulations!

Commenting directly from the new app!!
Thank you! It looks and works wonderfully!

I don't really use any apple devices but I'm really happy for you guys. Congrats!

Woah boi do I feel at home ! It looks so much like Apollo, I love it ! It’s so nice, everything is where it should be. I’m loving it so far, thank you so much

Awesome work :)

Thank you for all your work into this app! Currently replying from the iOS app 😁

Would it be possible to change accounts while staying on a post? In case I browse with one account and want to comment from a different one? Or some setting to autoswitch accounts when I open a post from a different instance which I also have an account on?
- Is that so you can have conversations with yourself?
  
  😁 Rather because it’s sometimes more useful to comment with a „local“ account instead of the standard one I browse with. It’s a little complicated with the whole federated approach.

This is odd. I can upvote, scroll, sort, login … all of it with Memmy. None of that works the first time with Voyager. I keep getting errors saying it can’t login, can’t vote and so on. I have to try it twice for it to work.
- That's very strange, I haven't heard any reports similar to that. I'll keep an eye out though. Sorry for the problems.
  
  I was finally able to sign in with Lemmy.world account. Will look forward to progress with app and will happily donate once moderator tools are added. Hopefully community banner display can also be incorporated into the app. 🙏🏻 Kudos for work so far!
  
  I’m having the same issue. Commenting here while using Memmy. I can login with lemm.ee account but not Lemmy.world account.
- it's possible that it's because at the time you were trying to do that the instance was down

Any chance you'll include the option to select which browser to use as the default rendered? Sync let's me choose that currently, and it's one of my main reasons for using that over Voyager, because I much prefer the Voyager UI (and ad-free experience).
- You mean choose a default browser for external links? If so, yes, here: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/issues/553
  
  Thanks for responding to me, yes that is exactly what I'm looking for. It's this supported on Android too?

However, it doesn't have access to certain native APIs that the native app takes advantage of.
How much extra programming overhead does adding code to use these native APIs add to you¿?
- Not too much thanks to https://capacitorjs.com
- What are these benefits?
  Posted from the native app :)
  
  No benefits. I was asking the main dev how much extra work he has to do to maintain the native versions

Is it just me or is the animation when collapsing comments is very choppy?
- Not just you. Also very choppy for me, both on the PWA and on the app from F-Droid.
  
  Not exactly glad to hear it, but relieved that it isn't a device issue. All the people talking about how fluid it is....what? It's a good app but it's not fluid at ALL, heck even Jerboa is like 10x more fluid for me.

Hey, would it not be possible to switch to our PWA? Or is the code completely different?

Will you implement in the Future the "Plus button" to create posts without actually visiting one community?

the android one is on github, no? will it be released on google play eventually?
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager

Cannot report a bug, iPad store version. Was asked which instance I'm on with login and password, so 100% fail. Basically this app does not know what federation is. Sad, it was a great app.
- Sorry, I'm confused by your comment. You should be able to login to custom lemmy instances just fine.
  
  Ahh I think they have just clicked the drop down for the “connected to instance” when using anonymous instance rather than the login button in top right

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