I’m not a dev but just wanted to say I appreciate all the work that has and will go into this.
Mlem for Lemmy
Official community for Mlem, a free and open-source iOS Lemmy client.
Rules
- Keep it civil.
- 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.
- We welcome constructive criticism, but ask that it be both precise and polite.
FAQ
- 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.
You're welcome!
I’m not a mobile dev (python/backend), but as a huge fan of Apollo, I’m loving how you’re designing the app. You guys got this! And maybe I’ll be working swift soon and can help out.
Experience designer here. Run a design team for a large ecommerce company, but I’m happy to help with stuff on the side.
The fact that you’re using a lot of standard iOS components means that it would be fast to mockup UI with Apple’s figma component libraries.
Good advice! Figma is what we've been using so our team can collaborate on the redesign of the app.
Well this is exciting, can't wait to see what comes out of it. If I knew Swift I'd love to contribute. Best of luck!
You can always help by beta testing--the link is here if you're interested
Well now thats perfect, gonna do so!
Cool! Where's the repo?
sorry, edited the post to include the link. check it out!
We're rooting for you, keep up the great work so far!
Great job on the project so far!
I'm often wondering, and this seems like a good place to ask: As someone who has no experience with app development and generally can't help with any of the actual engineering problems – is it still useful for you folks when people like me chime in with discussions and feature suggestions on the GitHub repo? Or are we more annoying than helping?
I sometimes feel like it seems easy to just “flood” the place with tickets, but if nobody contributes with actual code solutions, what is it really for? If you know what I mean…
Thanks for your interest! We welcome everyone from the community to hop on over and join Mlem App on Matrix and chat with us!
Might be known, but trying to click text links just collapses the post or comment. I’m not seeing a way in the app to click links.
I know you said you’re focused on development, but I have a long career in technical documentation and marketing communications. Would love to contribute if you need help with keeping externally-facing things spelled and communicated correctly.
Not a developer but I will be happily beta testing/ sending in bug reports whenever I can. Looking forward to the app reaching full release!!
Welcome, and thanks for your interest. The beta is currently open, and you can access it via TestFligt app. Here's the link
I wish i had the ability to help! I'm in tech, but not much of a developer. Really appreciate all the work being done here and I will gladly keep beta testing via TestFlight!
Cool! I was an iOS developer for 3 years. I’m good with Rx/Combine, know async/await. Now I do iOS dev as a hobby and would like to help out on the side if needed.
glad to hear it! join our space on Matrix, and hop into the Mlem Recruitment room! (links above)
Windows dev primarily, but absolutely engaged to test the hell out of this app! Here to make it the best we can
testing and liking
That license is... not appealing to contribute to. GPL or MIT or CC0 for me. Non-commercial licenses are the worst.
First time I've seen The Commons Clause; it's … interesting?
It's not the first time I've seen it, and I don't know how to feel about it. It's not free software at the very least.
I'm not super familiar with the nuances of licensing--what's different and why is it a deal-breaker for you?
I'm excited to see a mobile client is in the works! I wish I had time to help.
Is there a way to use this on iOS 15?
Howdy, I’ve been a web app dev in Angular for the past 7 years. I don’t actually have much experience in what you’ve listed here, aside from very limited exposure to consuming an OpenAPI spec and the barest minimum of E2E tests with Cypress. However, I’m very familiar with TypeScript and Angular, and will be very sad at Apollo’s passing (I’m fairly confident that’s your inspiration, and you’re doing a great job so far), so I’m eager and willing to learn. If you think I could be of help, let me know! Otherwise, I’m happy to beta test as much as possible for you. Very impressed with everything so far.
Do the owners of the repo accept PRs, or do you prefer us sign up/discuss somewhere?
I have 4 years of iOS app development experience