Mlem for Lemmy @lemmy.ml WiseMoth @lemmy.world 1y ago

I built the github version of Mlem and realised that if I build it for iPad, it has a full sidebar an almost complete iPad featuers!

Is there any eta for this version releasing? Do you guys know if it will be in the App Store version?

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Officially more feature complete than Apollo ever was /s
- Seriously though we got drug out for like 4 years on an iPad version that never saw light of day. Christian even talked about showing a video when he posted about shutting Apollo down. And of course the video has never been released.
  
  He probably wanted to do something too ambitious and feature-rich, and then could never finish it (sunk cost fallacy and all that); although many users would’ve already appreciated something simpler too, like the screenshot.
  
  He could still release the video though..?
  
  He wanted to do quite a bit more than a simple (semi-automatic) layout with a sidebar and main content. While this may look great at first glance, how useful it it really? There's a lot more to UX.
Oh no! You got us! But I gotta confirm that it’s intentional (this great iPad experience doesn’t come for free, and the app in the background was adapted to look especially good on all platforms) but still not polished enough for release, there are a few extra iPad fixes splattered around various PRs that make the experience much nicer, Just wait until the cake’s done baking and I hope everyone will be wowed

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MudNao-W1eRGZndv-3FeweqH8UP15x2O/view?usp=sharing
- Ayy that’s awesome! And it looks great so far! I love the custom swipe animation for comments! Are there any plans to bring it to macOS through catalyst? I got it working (sorta) but I’m no programmer so I couldn’t solve any of the bugs haha. But it’s looking sick, great job!
  
  Aw man, supporting another platform is a bit tough atm, and we certainly can’t commit to the Mac at this point, but just for you I threw in a bunch of extra Catalyst fixes so the app won’t crash so much, and do stuff like properly save accounts
  
  https://github.com/mlemgroup/mlem/pull/167
  
  (If you know how to clone and build that branch I would love some feedback, that’s where all the extra iPad stuff goes)
  
  (Writing this from my Mac 💻 😉) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RlFDc3sklSpuH6Oor8uNK32bpyHiv5UH/view?usp=share_link
That’s what I do as well, build the current master branch every few days with enabled iPad support. I guess there are some bugs in the UI since the support comes directly from SwiftUI, which does not always does the job 100% perfect automatically. But for my purpose to be able to just use slideover on an iPad this is already working fine.
- Yeah, it’s really good on my end! Although it breaks a bit if I build for macOS

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