Hey! Just a quick update from me. I’ve created a new community for Lunar. [email protected]

I decided to make a change because the old name, lunar_for_lemmy_ios, was a bit messy and hard to type. So, I’ve created a new community called “lunar” - short and sweet.

Really liking it so far, though I've only gotten into it a few days. Looking forward to notifications and very excited you are adding kbin compatibility.

I'm no coder and can't help you there, but I am a graphic artist and can help on that side of things (app icons, etc). Here's an icon example you are more than welcome to use.

Keep up the good work and let me know if I can help with any graphics.

Hey all, I’ve just released Lunar for Lemmy version 0.5.0.

Check out the post image for a TLDR on what’s released with screenshots.

Here's whats changed in v0.5.0:

Added

• Login Page and account information persistence to Keychain
• Redesigned settings page
• 4 new app icons
• Instance selector with 7 popular instances (custom instances coming soon)
• Image popover with zoom and pan features
• Debug Mode
• Haptics during the login flow and for upvote & downvote buttons
• Redesigned post metadata buttons
• Reset app button

Changed

• Included instance URL in Explore Communities Page
• Minor UI design changes
• Better divider between posts

Fixed

• Background thread publishing bug
• Tab resetting to feed view on loss of app focus
• Graphical glitch when swiping down to refresh

It's still not available on TestFlight yet unfortunately, there are still a few essential features I would like to add before releasing:

• Click on URL attached to the post opens the link in an in-app browser/external browser
• Collapsable and expandable comments
• Collapsed by default post body
• Functional upvote and downvote buttons
• Search communities
• Navigate to communities from posts view
• Markdown formatted post body and comments
• Upvotes and downvotes in comments
• Subscribe button inside community info view
• Subscriptions when logged in.
• Subscribed communities posts page

Once these have been added, it will be released for TestFlight. Follow the progress on the board here: https://github.com/users/mani-sh-reddy/projects/3

If you're curious and want to take a peek, you can run a preview on your iPhone using a Mac and Xcode. The instructions are in the GitHub repository, so feel free to give it a try and share your thoughts.

As always, I welcome contributions. If you would like to contribute, please get in touch/create a PR. I am still very new to iOS development so any help is appreciated.

https://github.com/mani-sh-reddy/Lunar-Lemmy-iOS

I can’t find this client on the App Store, is it on TestFlight?

Just making this community to keep you updated on the progress I'm making with Lunar.

At this stage, Lunar is still in its early stages of development. While it's not available on the App Store or TestFlight just yet, you can get it up and running using Xcode and a Mac (instructions on Github)

I can only dive into Lunar during evenings and weekends so not got much time to dedicate to it at the moment but in the spirit of open source collaboration I welcome you to contribute your feedback and ideas and to even raise pull requests (pls mind my jank code)

https://github.com/mani-sh-reddy/Lunar-Lemmy-iOS

Keep track of progress here: https://github.com/users/mani-sh-reddy/projects/3