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What's your favorite third-party app that feels native to iOS/Android?

3 years ago by 8bit to c/asklemmy

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It seems that many popular mobile apps nowadays have their own design language. I like uniformity between my apps so I greatly respect when an app developer takes the care to design their app to follow their OS Human Interface Guidelines.

For example, apps like Apollo (and wefwef/Voyager for Lemmy) rose to popularity partly due to looking and feeling like native iOS app

TenderfootGungi 23 points 3 years ago

Apollo. Sigh

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Sivar 1 point 3 years ago

I’m glad this was the top comment

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TheLonelyDude2049 13 points 3 years ago

Sync for Reddit.

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godless 5 points 3 years ago

Definitely. Just waiting for Sync for Lemmy, can't be long.

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TheLonelyDude2049 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, it's coming soon.

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berkat 8 points 3 years ago

The best was defintely Apollo. Memmy seems to be trying to push the native iOS UI forward, but it's early days for that app.

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jerkjaguar 5 points 3 years ago

It was Joey for Reddit. Currently on Connect for Lemmy

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confetti_8tVST5 4 points 3 years ago

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Bongles 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah I think Google's current thing is material design

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ABeeinSpace 2 points 3 years ago

Yep, that’s what their design language is called. It’s changed a lot over the years, but still kept the same name

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AugustMetronome 3 points 3 years ago

I'm really enjoying Ice Cubes for Mastodon. It really fits in with other iOS stuff well. And I'm using wefwef for lemmy too.

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EliasChao 2 points 3 years ago

Ivory from the Tweetbot devs, although is not purely Apple-y, it feels like it belongs in the platform while also adding something of their own.

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radix 2 points 3 years ago

Anyone have an example of an Android app that feels like this?

Personally I don't see the appeal of adhering to an existing design system just to make it feel "native". I'm using Voyager on Android and it's not native-feeling at all since Voyager is very Apple-inspired, but that doesn't feel weird/bad. Discord is another app I use every day (though not for Lemmy) and it's certainly not designed to feel native on either Apple or Android.

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8bit 3 points 3 years ago

Lemuroid and Libretube are good examples. I personally think they’re beautiful and match great with stock (Google) Android Material Design

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MedicPigBabySaver -38 points 3 years ago

Fuck Apple.

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Bongles 9 points 3 years ago

Haven't heard of that app.

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