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Liftoff!

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A mobile client for Lemmy running on iOS and Android

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Liftoff! Version 0.10.4 is available today! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by liftoff@lemmy.world to c/liftoff@lemmy.world
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Lots of great changes have been added by our growing team of contributors as highlighted below. If you want to join the team come and say hello at the team discussion on Matrix

Please note that many lemmy servers are under massive pressure today, so you may see many unexpected error messages and silent failures. Please bear with us all!

Updates should appear on TestFlight and Play Store today.

v0.10.4 Release

iOS:

  • TestFlight (will be visible later today as build 0.10.4.26)

Android:

Changelog

  • Added core support for deep links like liftoff://lemmy.world/c/liftoff (shocklateboy92)
  • Fixed an issue preventing adding certain instances (swmarks)
  • Added translate option to menu on posts and comments (mykdavies)
  • Fixed locale not updating (zachatrocity)
  • Fixed comment sorting and added Top 1, 6, & 12 Hr. post sort order options (zachatrocity)
  • Fixed markdown parsing of lemmy links (zachatrocity)
  • Fixed an issue where on-screen keyboard could cover up the comment text input field (zachatrocity)
  • Fixed an issue that caused the keyboard to open when exiting a post (zachatrocity)
  • Fixed an issue where selecting chat for comment sort would crash (zachatrocity)
  • Changed theme for buttons throughout app to follow Primary Color (swmarks)
  • Added ability to close fullscreen images with single tap (jjcomer)
  • Fixed markdown parsing of lemmy links (zachatrocity)
  • Internal project & build updates (shocklateboy92 / jjcomer)

Known Issues (In progress)

There are still some things we’re working through, so here’s a list of our top priorities:

Contributions

As always, contributions are welcomed and encouraged! We have a great community on GitHub and Matrix so don’t hesitate to contribute!

Screenshots

Dark mode

Looking at a post menu in dark mode

Light mode

Looking at posts in light mode

Selecting a theme colour

More theme colours than you could shake a stick at

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[–] Raykin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Someone please add the option to block an entire instance.

[–] meant2live218@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how to submit GitHub issues, but there are a few things I want to note (I'm on a Pixel 6 Pro):

Sometimes when opening a post, after loading the entire comment screen is taken up by a blank gray screen. I can slide back out to the post/feed view, and after a few attempts re-enter the comment view and actually see comments. I haven't seen other complaints about this, and don't know what's causing it.

When I use the built-in browser to view a link, there is no shortcut to back out to the comment view. Instead, I have to mash "back/up" enough to return to the view. A nice inclusion would be some sort of top bar or navigation bar to allow "leaving" the link and returning to my normal Liftoff view.

Thanks for everything!

[–] veroxii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exact same problems as me. Also on a pixel 6.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to use my first comment on Lemmy to thank the devs of this app. Its simple, intuitive(mostly, learning new stuff is hard), and looks super clean. Watched RiF grow for over ten years, I'm excited tovsee where this goes.

[–] lifttruckoperator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Are there any plans to add more appearance options? Particularly with font colours, I want to adjust it so the text is just a bit more grey at night.

[–] coldhotman@nrsk.no 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

aa

[–] th4@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the best app for lemmy imho, thanks for the good work!

I love that it's the only one that allows me to select text like RIF, I wish there was a setting to make it selectable by default on long press!

[–] d_cent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Notifications??

I know on the top left there is the bell icon to look at notifications. It works nice but there is no change in how it looks if I have a new Notification. It would be great if it changed to the color when I have a new reply to one of my comments.

I love this app though. Very nice. Closest to RIF I have found. Thank you for everything

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not appearing yet for me

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Congrats on the App Store launch!!!

[–] xtract@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely brilliant. The AMOLED dark mode is perfect now with the line in between posts, but if liftoff could use the system's accent color (at least in Android) it would be amazingly sexy.

[–] elxeno@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi, i made a small patch to hide posts from the feed, and i'm not sending a PR on github because it's unfinished, might be bad code and i don't know if i will finish it. So if anyone wants to finish it feel free to do so. It was rebased a couple hours ago, so there's probably no confilicts if you git apply.

What it does:

  • adds a button to the post
  • when that button is clicked, it hides the post (globally via the postId, so u could still see it from other instances, i think)

What is missing (IMO):

  • Some way to see which posts were hidden
  • Some way to unhide them
  • Config option to disable/enable the button.
  • Improve the code? Currently it just checks every post in the post builder if the postId is in the list and swaps it with a SizedBox(height:0), might be better to filter in the fetcher.

patch: https://rentry.co/liftoff-hide-post

video of it working: https://sendvid.com/papfuniw

edit: added GIF GIF of the video

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are there plans or possibly a way I just haven't figured out, to have comment replies and DMs send push notifications/alerts and at least basic moderation tools (stickying, locking, removing posts in communities you mod in)? I think Liftoff is perfect for me, it's just missing these two things. I've worked around notifications but just having Connect in the background, but I prefer everything else about Liftoff, and no app I've seen thus far on Android has tools to moderate either, so I hope it is something in the pipe.

[–] zachatrocity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We've added modlog in the latest release. And basic mod actions are coming.

Additionally notifications are really close to being done

[–] Kelho@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the hard work, it's been my favorite app for Lemmy so far!

A couple of questions though:

  • Will we be able to subscribe to communities on other instances in the future (as Jerboa allows)?
  • I am registered on Lemmy.ml but still Lemmy.World appears on my app when choosing Subscribed/Local/All. Any way to hide it?
[–] lauha@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can already subscribe to other communities on liftoff?

[–] KluEvo@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a bit spotty. Some of the time it works flawlessly, other times I have to switch to jerboa or connect to subscribe, then come back to view the content

[–] aeluon@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

same here - I can get it to work if the community is linked in a post (such as !powershell@programming.dev). searching that same string yield no results unless someone else has linked to that community in a post.