Happy v1!
Yes, there are still outstanding bugs. It’s not perfect, and we will continue to make things better! But Voyager has come a long way, and all of the core functionality is there to use and enjoy lemmy. 🙂
Happy version 1.0! 🎉
This release only has one major new feature: Unique time-based sort icons! You can now quickly glance to see what sort you’re currently on. Thanks @tilden!
Voyager is going to the App Store
I’m also excited to announce that the next major focus will be on releasing Voyager as an iOS app! This will fix various iOS bugs that we’ve encountered (white status bar, scroll “freezing” etc), and bring some nice functionality like haptics and tapping the status bar to scroll to top, and also improve onboarding for people that aren’t familiar with Progressive Webapps. It also opens the possibility for other neat features, like the option to open links in your browser instead of in-app. You can see most of the work done in #410, to be merged shortly!
If you’re curious how this is possible, check out Capacitor and AppFlow!
Note, an iOS app is subject to approval from Apple which may significantly delay its public release.
(Don’t worry! The PWA isn’t going anywhere! It has it’s own benefits like being self-hostable, quicker updates and being available on desktop computers.)
Once the iOS app is released, work will begin on releasing to the Play Store.
What’s Changed
- Add custom icons for time-based sorts by @tilden in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/524
- Forcing high resolution icon for iOS by @fer0n in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/526
- Fix block, message user not presenting login when logged out by @aeharding in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/528
New Contributors
- @tilden made their first contribution in https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/524
Full Changelog: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/compare/0.28.1...1.0.0
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Congrats from a long time lurker. It’s been amazing to see voyager come together all the way from WefWef.
It has been such a smooth transition from Apollo to Lemmy that I needed to come out if lurking to show appreciation for the hard work you guys have done on this app.
Thanks again for all the hard work, I really can’t believe how well done this app is as a non-native PWA app.
Really again, thanks for the hard work and congrats on the V1. Amazing job 🎉
long time lurker
User names checks out
Welcome to the club
Awesome! Can’t wait to try the AppStore version!
The haptics are 🤌
Damn you weren’t kidding. I always felt the swipe in Voyager to feel a little “off” but could never tell why. It was the haptic feedback! Now it feels just as natural as it used to in Apollo
Do you plan on releasing it on testflight first?
Yes
Congratulations! And thank you for all the hard work!
Exciting stuff! Can’t wait to try the native iOS app!
Yahoo. Is F-droid release possibility too down the line?
I don’t see why we couldn’t
Very nice! Thanks to everyone who has put their hard work and effort into this project so far. It is much appreciated 😊
Thank you for keeping the PWA!
I was about to getting sad because I thought no Android version then I finish reading… Heck yeah dude way to go and congrats for V1!!
Congrats on this important milestone and thank you for making one of the best Lemmy apps! Turning this into a standalone app is definitely an awesome move.
It’s probably not the focus for many and the app is already great as it is, but could we expect some basic mod tooling some day or is that out of scope?
Yes! This will be a focus post 1.0. I have had experience modding with Apollo in the past and I really enjoyed it, and I’d like to bring that to Voyager.
The question is how to. Unfortunately, certain parts about Lemmy’s API makes this difficult, such as not having reports embedded in the post/comment payload. But we have some ideas for workarounds.
You can see a modest start here: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager/pull/512 (note the comment nuke, my favorite Apollo mod feature 😉)
You can also publish to Android without Playstore and it gives some advantages like pulling the APK from Obtainium or standalone download from GitHub.
Thank you for this! Many have doubted me when I said this would happen, it’s always nice to have options!
That’s awesome! You guys have done an amazing job
This is so exciting! Finally!
Actually I only miss notifications now. Is this not possible with the web app or what is the reason?
It’s possible, but to do it right without polling it depends on https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3552
Been using Voyager since the death of Apollo and it’s become my preferred way to access Lemmy. Looking forward to an App Store release.
