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Mlem for Lemmy
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Official community for Mlem, a free and open-source iOS Lemmy client.
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- 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.
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- When will insert feature here be implemented?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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What else did you try? Heard good things about Memmy as well
I for one can say I actually prefer Memmy. I think the themes look better and it functions a little smoother. I’m sure Mlem will be good though, it just seems earlier on in development.
Haha yeah we're definitely the "slow and steady" team on this one. Memmy is done in react-native, which, as the app very effectively demonstrates, is a fantastic framework for getting a smooth app out to market fast. We're using SwiftUI, which has the advantage of being the native iOS framework--it's more powerful and integrates better with the platform, but at the cost of being slower to develop in.
I can’t wait to see it fully developed. I still pop in on the beta on TestFlight from time to time.
Really appreciate the native approach! Came from Memmy and Mlem feels really smooth and Apollo like 👍
I tried both and they both have their strengths and weaknesses. Both are far from complete so it’ll be interesting to see how they develop.
That being said, long term my money is on Mlem over Memmy simply because Mlem is a native iOS app written in Swift and Memmy is made using React Native. In the end you can never beat the quality of a native app using a cross-platform toolkit.
Just Mlem atm, looking to try others.
Memmy is by far the closest to Apollo. Highly recommend
Using it right now, absolutely. I like it too.