TestFlight for Voyager
Test Flight is here!
https://testflight.apple.com/join/nWLw1MBM
It's appreciated testing various versions of iOS, and ensure all functionality matches the Progressive Web App.
Comment below with any issues that don't exist in the Progressive Web App and aren't listed below.
Known issues:
Thanks!
Cool! Installed it to replace the PWA. Nice work!
Howdy! I’m still new to Lemmy. Why does your username appear red to me in the Voyager app?
Are you super special? Are you dev royalty??
What’s everyone’s experience so far? Mine:
I do find it interesting that the back swipe then scroll freeze issue isn’t entirely fixed. It doesn’t stay frozen like the PWA if you keep swiping but it still latches for a sec before you can keep swiping.
Yes, that’s the same thing I was experiencing
I’d like to see haptics implemented when hitting the voting buttons too, not just on swipe
I can't believe how quickly you work. You're a legend. I can't wait for the Android app.
Jealous of iOS users! Looking forward to Android release!
Works great so far!
Here we go!
to those curious, the download is only 14 megabytes and its silky smooth and appears much faster to me. it didn't remember my settings from the wefwef pwa. submitting posts and comments and votes so far all work perfectly for me.
this thing is a release candidate in my eyes.
so awesome, since memmy became very unstable.
Just found one curiosity, if you post something new it would be great if it opens the keyboard directly. At the moment you still have to do an additional tap to on the comment area to bring up the keyboard!
Otherwise amazing work!
Got it and am posting this from the app. Well done!
This is awesome. Everything’s great except anytime I try to save an image to my photos it crashes
Same issue here
Bug:
Tapped on the OP in the thread below to collapse it, and end up getting the whole app shifted up/offscreen, and the comments cut off below.
I had this happen too. The time on my phone was overlappping with the post…
I don't know why, but scrollIntoView seems more buggy here than in the PWA.
Yup happening on my phone as well. IPhone 13 mini running iOS 16.6.
Holy shit, it's real!
I wish we could give awards on Lemmy.
Wait so this is now an actual app? Genuine question!
If so that’s cool!
This probably is a nich feature, but is it possible to get deeplinks (example voyager://inbox or voyager://vger.app/inbox/unread)?
We can definitely do deep linking with a special URL, however I want to avoid links to vger.app opening the app. One of my pet peeves are apps open that when I'm just trying to browse their site.
Question and I'm sorry I missed it if it has come up before. Once the native app is released, do you plan to continue development of the PWA? I love the PWA and love that it can be self-hosted.
1000% yes, it's using the same code!
Swiping back instead of accidentally upvoting is much better here than the web app.
Wohoo!
That was quick! Testing using iOS 17.
There seems to be a delay on the keyboard which is not present in the PWA however this might be because of the beta version I’m using.
I also find the font sizes of the header quite large. Perhaps there could be an option to resize?
Edit: the reply bug where when you reply to a comment, the comment thread shows in the reply area is still present.
Regarding your edit, can you take a screenshot?
Thanks!
Here, I uploaded a video of my screen. Let me know if you can see it.
Here’s a screen shot but the video is clearer imho
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6xsukekxrnxn4ef/AADQvyD6V30HTTnNXaa919R6a?dl=0
One thing I noticed, I have long swipes disabled and I’m just using short swipes but crossing the short/long threshold gives a second haptic bump which feels unintuitive. Otherwise the app is working amazing so far thanks for all the work you’ve put into it!
Great catch!
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I noticed there's no version number in settings compared to the PWA.
The app seems to work great ! Thank you !
Awesome! But can you please have an .ipa available for download on GitHub, so we don't need to depend on Apple for updates.
Maybe in the future, builds are through App Flow which doesn't have a way to make builds public, and I don't want to manually upload an ipa every release.
Where do we submit feedback? The TestFlight email link is not working for me. Basically my bug report: if you auto fill passwords, validation error reports pwd is empty , unless you manually auto fill both fields separately which beats the purpose of auto fill. Probably unnecessarily early front end validation.
Here is fine, otherwise I think you can through Test Flight app.
What password manager? It's working for me in Bitwarden.
Just using the default iOS one, it shows up automatically on the top of your keyboard when it detects a user/pwd kind of input . So basically something like your safari saved passwords ? Edit: thanks & props for the awesome work btw
Have you heard from you early adopters in the delta quadrant?
I’ve been using the PWA version of Voyager for the last month, and today I’ve experimented with the new Test Flight app.
I have just two words of feedback:
Nailed it.
Hope you can later share Android APK and have auto-update feature without relying on Playstore.
I notice when I click on a YouTube link in the PWA it opens up in the same window and takes me to the link, but when I click on the same link in the TestFlight app it opens in a separate window. Is that intended?
Not intended, just the way native apps work. At some point I will need to add code to explicitly open certain things in their app.
would be great to make it a settings page for which media type/app to choose how to open them.
If you wanted it to open up in the same window like it does in the PWA would you have to code in a browser to the native app? Is that something you’d be interested in adding in the future?
Now that’s what I’m talking about. Great work!
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Woot.
Just installed to test it, thanks! One thing I immediately noticed is that in compact mode, I keep on accidentally downvoting posts when trying to open them. We can already upvote/downvote using arrows on the right side so I think it would be better to just open the post when tapping anywhere on the post title. Great work and I’m loving how snappy it is, and I’m also using the memmy and mlem betas.
Amazing! So happy to use this.
One issue I’ve noticed: seems like there is a very short tap delay, most noticeable on the tap bar.
Hey @aeharding
I found a bug but neither a screenshot nor a video would show it. Let me explain:
I opened a post in this community (title: Can’t save images by long pressing) that was short and had very few comments, making the entire content fit exactly inside the screen, almost exactly. On a regular/longer post, I can pull to refresh, but in this case it seems like scrolling is completely disabled. No matter how much I try to swipe up or down, the whole thing is static. it works in the PWA, though.
I also think it’s lacking a bit of padding between the last comment and the tabs at the bottom, but that’s also happening in the PWA, so I guess it’s not app related.
Great work overall! Hope this helps
Thanks! This is interesting. I have seen that before I think but I thought it was resolved. Cheers
i just installed it and it’s performing about as well as you would expect on an ipad air 2, but it’s definitely more smooth than the pwa. swipe gestures especially feel more responsive and smooth for some reason. i’ll replace the pwa on my home screen for now and report any issues i find. (if i find any at all, it seems to be working very well.)
Is it me? Or does “mark read on scroll” seems to be broken? Worked fine in the wpa — for me the most awesome feature voyager has
Tested again: fine in wpa, broken in app
Filters are missing as well? Probably related
But what about my wefwef web app?
Can I still keep it because I think it might be worth something as a vintage web app to show off in 5+ years time.
Great work! Would it be possible to have the app or even the PWA support 120fps gestures such as on the back swipe gesture on devices with ProMotion?
You can disable 60 fps lock in safari with develop menu.
As for that being a default, Safari needs to fix this: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173434
Edit: More reading:
Great work! I love having Voyager as a separate app on macOS.
By the way if you don’t mind. What programming language are you using? Is it swift UI?
Yay! Thanks for this! I’m loving it and feels like I never left Apollo more than the pwa did if that makes sense.
Just found a bug, not sure if it’s already been reported: if the comment thread is longer than I think like 4 posts, when I click “x more comments” it doesn’t actually open the rest of the thread.
If I want to save a photo the app crashes.
Edit: safe from the app to my iPhone.
Thanks, feels very smooth!
Does the native app proxy through your server like the PWA, or does it connect directly with the instance? Thanks for all your work on this!
Direct. The PWA is direct now too (except for photo upload endpoint because Lemmy bug)
Sweet, thank you!
Oooh joined! Big fan of Voyager, the app is working well so far! Just a question, when will push nofications be implemented?
Thank you for the status bar tap feature!
One thing I noticed is that the "Back" button does not always work on the posts tab, it just alternates between "Home", "All" and "Local" instead of actually taking me to the page where all my subscriptions are listed.
Edit: Actually I meant the "Communities" button, and the bug only happens when I’ve previously used the drop-down list to switch between either of "Home", "All" or "Local".
Thanks! The problem is it’s not replacing the current route. There should be a fix soon.
I’m excited to try it out! Now I just have to find a good place for it on my Home Screen.
