dreikelvin, 10 months ago

@steve this looks awesome! can't wait to try it when it's out on the app store

aerotom, 10 months ago

@steve Great! By the way, do you mind sharing the wallpaper/source?

steve, 10 months ago

@aerotom That's actually a blurred photo of my partner and me! 🙈

aerotom, 10 months ago

@steve OMG! 🙈🫶

loskotar, 10 months ago

@steve
looks super cool so far! Im assuming yes because of React Native, but do you any plans for an eventual Android version?

steve, 10 months ago

You can also add additional accounts and switch between them from within the app 😁

(I’ve obviously not finished the profile screen 🙈)

#Lemmy #iOS #AppDevelopment #IndieDev

the account switcher in Bean

steve, 10 months ago

I’ve also switched out the icons for SF Symbols but I’m not sure I like them. I might make my own post-beta.

steve, 10 months ago

The next thing I’m going to do is a global toast component so I can show error and success messages whenever I need. Then I’ll flesh out more of these screens.

I’d started on a Community screen but I don’t like it and I might use this for the “Sidebar” instead.

#Lemmy

steve, 10 months ago

Toast didn't take long 😅

steve, 10 months ago

Floating action button, read indicator, redesigned post thumbnail, and a BUNCH of behind the scenes performances changes.

I’ll be improving these themes after beta.

#Lemmy #AppDevelopment #IndieDev #ReactNative

Bean for Lemmy screenshot
Bean for Lemmy screenshot
Bean for Lemmy screenshot

Joekw, 10 months ago

@steve do you think new posts are performed by users often enough to warrant a FAB? i guess my personal impression is most reddit users are lurkers (including me)

steve, 10 months ago

Added pinned and NSFW badges (with blurring). I don’t know if that’s gonna be enough to get past Apple but I guess we’ll find out 😬

#Lemmy

A screenshot of Bean for Lemmy

ericleamen, 10 months ago

@steve Oh wow, I’ve been away so didn’t realize you built an entire Lemmy client. It looks slick!

steve, 10 months ago

@ericleamen Oh!! Thank you 😄 Hoping to have the beta ready to go early next week 🥰

steve, 10 months ago

I've been working on the Settings for Bean today.

Themes, accent, and reversing the position of the thumbnail and voting buttons are in.

Does anyone have requests for accent colours or other settings they'd like to see?

#Lemmy #iOS #Android #ReactNative

Display settings for Bean

hybridhavoc, 10 months ago

@steve I recently saw someone asking for the ability to sort of group their subscriptions into folders / views. I believe they were making the request directly to Lemmy, but it seemed like something that a client might be able to provide.

steve, 10 months ago

@hybridhavoc that could be nice! I’ve been thinking of having the combined subreddits feature that Apollo used to have too

hybridhavoc, 10 months ago

@steve
I never used Apollo so don’t have a point of reference for that, but could also be similar to what the person was looking for.

mrmacneil, 10 months ago

@steve I see purple and I’m a happy camper.

steve, 10 months ago

It’s way too fun to make icon variants. I think my favourite so far is “Tutti Frutti” 😋

What do you think?

#Lemmy #iOS #AppDevelopment #AppDev

steve, 10 months ago

Layout animations make everything so much more refined!

Switch between compact and card views 😁

#Lemmy #AppDevelopment #Programming

A video demonstrating layout animations

steve, 10 months ago

I also added an option to auto-open in Safari’s Reader Mode which makes the web usable!

(There’s also an option to open in your system default browser too but who actually does that?)

#Lemmy #iOS #AppDevelopment

A video demonstrating Safari’s Reader Mode

FnarFnar, 10 months ago

@steve you’re terrifyingly productive mate 😂😂

steve, 10 months ago

@FnarFnar Haha thanks! When I’m into an idea I get pretty hooked on it 🙈

FnarFnar, 10 months ago

@steve it’s looking awesome, can’t wait to have a play with it when it’s released!

steve, 10 months ago

Okay that’s the last icon for now (I think) 😂

#Lemmy #iOS #ReactNative #Programming

robb, 10 months ago

@steve 👏

steve, 10 months ago

I posted a look at all of the icons over on #Lemmy https://lemmy.world/post/1193300

Joekw, 10 months ago

@steve can i request a bi bean 🥺

steve, 10 months ago

@Joekw Of course!! I should probably do a whole range of flags

philipp, 10 months ago

@steve they look gorgeous 🤩

steve, 10 months ago

@philipp Thank you!

steve, 10 months ago

Image viewer is 90% there. So far it:

• finds the node on screen and animates from it
• animates back
• supports multiple images
• pinch/double tap to zoom and pan

Needs the pull down gesture to close, caption support, and refine animations.

#Lemmy #iOS #ReactNative #Programming

A video showing the image viewer in Bean

steve, 10 months ago

I definitely could have just used a library for this 😂

steve, 10 months ago

Gestures ✅

I’m calling it for tonight and I’ll finish this up tomorrow and then integrate it everywhere in the app.

• Share sheet
• Caption
• Testing with multi image

And then onto the final two tabs I want to do before the beta 🥰

#Lemmy

A video demonstrating Bean’s image viewer

steve, 10 months ago

Added today:

• caption support (pulls in post title or alt tag)
• share sheet
• improved animations and gestures

#Lemmy

An image viewer in bean

steve, 10 months ago

With the image viewer out of the way I’m populating the final few tabs on the app. Communities first!

#Lemmy

The communities tab on Bean

steve, 10 months ago

I’ve also been adding in a tonne of settings as I go 😁

#Lemmy #AppDevelopment #iOS #ReactNative

Display settings on Bean
Communities with the Fediverse address shown

barrybeebenson, 10 months ago

@steve i’m so excited for this app!

steve, 10 months ago

@barrybeebenson Thanks 😊

steve, 10 months ago

Almost finished up with V1 or the Communities screen 😄

#Lemmy #Bean #iOS #AppDevelopment #IndieDev

Communities screen on Bean

steve, 10 months ago

Also, sound effects!

#Lemmy

Sound effects in Bean for Lemmy

steve, 10 months ago

Communities screen with the ability to pin a community to the top, browse all communities, or view trending is done 😊

Onward to the Search screen!

#Lemmy

Trending communities on Bean

DCimpulse, 10 months ago

@steve loving what I'm seeing so far!

steve, 10 months ago

Tidying up the comments section today and adding the ability to interact with them.

This is probably the trickiest aspect of the app!

#Lemmy

steve, 10 months ago

Oh and, friends don’t let friends open a Safari view controller without checking UIApplicationOpenURLOptionUniversalLinksOnly first.

(Every single app should be doing this and providing and option)

#Lemmy

steve, 10 months ago

If you hate universal links then you can just uncheck the option in Settings

#Lemmy

steve, 10 months ago

My comment walker is all over the place at the moment and placing comments where it shouldn’t be 😂

Coffee, food, and time to fix it.

steve, 10 months ago

Does 200 seem like a sensible height for images in comments? #Lemmy

steve, 10 months ago

Added a “sidebar” view to the communities this evening 😄

#Lemmy #iOS #AppDevelopment

Stats in the Bean sidebar
The Bean sidebar in dark mode

steve, 10 months ago

Also been working on Markdown parsing and it’s nice to see my routing is working as expected 😁

Showing links between communities

steve, 10 months ago

Lemmy devs clearly wanted the !community format to take off but the users were like “naaaah” /c/community seems better 😂 #Lemmy

steve, 10 months ago

Lots of communities also are aping Reddit’s flairs by including them in brackets in the titles so I’ve chucked in a display setting to pull them out

#Lemmy

steve, 10 months ago

Working on user profiles today 😊

#Lemmy

Joekw, 10 months ago

@steve when can i try this 🥺

steve, 10 months ago

@Joekw hopefully this week! I want to have all basic features in for the first beta. Posting and replying will follow shortly after.

steve, 10 months ago

Nice to see the avatar and banner in correct position. Just a few more bits left to do on profiles tomorrow 😁

#Lemmy

A user profile screen on Bean

steve, 10 months ago

And honestly, who doesn’t love a stretchy header?

Stretchy header on the account screen in Bean

steve, 10 months ago

And now that I have a profile screen it makes the account switching a lot more easy to see 😅

#Lemmy

Account switching in Bean

steve, 10 months ago

When I have more time I want to do a nice transition between accounts.

steve, 10 months ago

Tidied up the user profile, fixed some performance issues, and pulled out some more info here.

Pretty happy it with it 😄

#Lemmy

steve, 10 months ago

Alpha incoming! 🫘

#Lemmy #Bean #AppDevelopment

hybridhavoc, 10 months ago

@steve iOS only?

steve, 10 months ago

@hybridhavoc For now! Android is gonna need some more time to cook

zav_, 10 months ago

@steve 🤩🥳

mikey, 10 months ago

@steve can't wait to try this out!

steve, 10 months ago

📢 TestFlight invites sent to first small group of testers for this alpha!

If you didn't get one, I'll be sending more out tomorrow and this link will work for a little while:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/de5zt3wH

#Lemmy #iOS #AppDevelopment #IndieDev #Programming

bleckert, 10 months ago

@steve It’s beautiful!

steve, 10 months ago

@bleckert thank you!

steve, 10 months ago

Over 150 testers added to TestFlight 🤯

I'll be sending out some more invites later this week. If you want in on that batch, sign up here: https://forms.gle/vdFxZdAu8khE9Lnv8

#Lemmy #iOS #TestFlight #AppDevelopment #IndieDev

steve, 10 months ago

The latest build just pushed to testers included two new themes and the ability to change fonts 😁

Tomorrow is comments day.

#Lemmy

The Dusk theme for SF Pro Rounded on Bean

steve, 10 months ago

Onto the markdown editor 😁

#Lemmy #Bean

steve, 10 months ago

📢 I've opened up the Bean TestFlight again so if you're a #Lemmy user and interested in checking it out 👉

https://testflight.apple.com/join/de5zt3wH

steve, 10 months ago

Some bits in today’s build:

• Redesigned the community tab and presented subscriptions alphabetically.
• Finalised the markdown editor for comments with a preview screen.
• Added a FAB to posts to comment.
• But fixes for timezones etc.

Tomorrow I’ll be adding the ability to up/downvote comments and reply to them and work on the UI for comments a little more.

#Lemmy #Bean #iOS #AppDev #Programming #ReactNative

Single post view in Bean
Markdown editor in Bean

steve, 9 months ago

Some more options added as requested for font size, haptics, and as OpenDyslexic (because my partner really benefits from it and hopefully others will).

#Lemmy #Bean #iOS #ReactNative

Sounds and Haptics settings in Bean

steve, 9 months ago

Comment themes, collapsible comments, swipe actions, and a button to skip to the next thread added to Bean today.

#Lemmy #iOS #Bean #AppDevelopment #Programming

Display settings in Bean

jeromechoo, 9 months ago

@steve collapsible comments 😍

steve, 9 months ago

Chunky update to Bean today!

Inbox and Search are the two big ones but a lot of smaller things in there too 😁

More here: https://lemmy.world/post/1728029

#Lemmy #Bean

steve, 9 months ago

Image uploads and a redesigned post composer added to Bean today 😊

#Lemmy #Bean #iOS #AppDevelopment

Image uploads and links on the post composer in Bean

steve, 9 months ago

Some final additions to the composer: NSFW toggle and the ability to select a community.

I’m really happy with how this came together 😁

#Bean #Lemmy #iOS

steve, 9 months ago

Here it is with my favourite theme and font combo: Notebook + New York

steve, 9 months ago

Working on a new feature for #Bean this evening… Group your communities together so you don't have to visit every single one individually!

#Lemmy

Craktok, 9 months ago

@steve love that idea

ryanstewart, 9 months ago

@steve This is clever. Nice job!

phillfarrugia, 9 months ago

@steve 🔥 🔥

awilbert, 10 months ago

@steve Thank you for Avenir. ♥️

steve, 10 months ago

@awilbert Let me know if you have any other requests

dan80, 10 months ago

@steve The communities are in random order, do you plan to have them in alphabetical order? Your app looks gorgeous on iPad by the way

steve, 10 months ago

@dan80 I do! Lemmy spits them out in a random order so I’ll need to loop through pages and sort them alpha

robb, 10 months ago

@steve Speedy feedback posted.

steve, 10 months ago

@robb Thank you! Fixing that issue right now.

dan80, 10 months ago

@steve thanks!

jeromechoo, 10 months ago

@steve Nice! Just got it. Do you prefer TestFlight for sharing feedback, email, or Mastodon?

steve, 10 months ago

@jeromechoo here or on the Bean community https://Lemmy.world/c/bean

harmlesssaucer, 10 months ago

@steve just accepted the TestFlight - happy to test it out, love the work so far!

zav_, 10 months ago

@steve Lets get to testing then! Very happy to have been in the first invite batch 👀

steve, 10 months ago

@zav_ I hope you like it!

beefbaby182, 10 months ago

@steve that ! thing is confusing as hell

steve, 10 months ago

@beefbaby182 Yeah I don’t like it at all, it’s too easy to read it as a username

beefbaby182, 10 months ago

@steve and runs into problems linking to other instances

steve, 10 months ago

@beefbaby182 just linking /c/community makes it so easy too. You can just click it and it opens on your instance

FnarFnar, 10 months ago

@steve looking good! Are you going to add collapsing of comment trees?

I’m genuinely really envious of your ability to do this sort of thing.

steve, 10 months ago

@FnarFnar I am indeed!

Ryanteck, 10 months ago

@steve Heinz would like to know your location

ryanstewart, 10 months ago

@steve You’re missing the most important of Beans 🙂

steve, 10 months ago

@ryanstewart Hahaha I really want to include him but I worry about copyright. Maybe I’ll think of an Easter egg somehow

johnathan, 10 months ago

@steve this looks incredible Steve, can’t wait to check the beta out when you’re ready. Saying “well done” always sounds super sarcastic and patronising when it’s on the Internet, but genuinely well done haha

steve, 10 months ago

@johnathan Thank you 😄 I really appreciate it

kylewritescode, 10 months ago

@steve Any plans for Kbin integration?

steve, 10 months ago

@kylewritescode Not at launch as they don’t have an finalised API. When they do, yes.

Right now, I’d recommend making a Lemmy account and following Kbin mags there.

ericleamen, 10 months ago

@steve These animations are sliiiiiick!

steve, 10 months ago

@ericleamen 🥰

je, 10 months ago

@steve which RN library did you use for the symbols?

steve, 10 months ago

@je https://github.com/birkir/react-native-sfsymbols

je, 10 months ago

@steve @je thanks pal! I did see that one but noticed it hadn’t been updated in a while. Wondered if you’d found something newer 👌

sru, 10 months ago

@steve Hey Stephen! Nice to see you outside of Twitter. Would you please consider setting a continuous corner curve on your rounded rectangles? It’s a one-line change and looks much nicer IMO:

view.layer.cornerCurve = .continuous

steve, 10 months ago

@sru Did not know this existed! Thank you!

steve, 10 months ago

@sru You're totally right!! Wow, thank you <3

hybridhavoc, 10 months ago

@steve ateve!

steve, 10 months ago

@hybridhavoc 😅

hybridhavoc, 10 months ago

@steve I presume it would be pronounced similar to attaché