Bean is a Lemmy client for iOS.
Bean is available on the App Store here.
Please report all bugs with the [Bug] flair in your title.
I'm currently open to feature requests. Please use the [Feature Request] flair in the title of your post so I can keep track of them.
Build 2023.07.20.22.51 is currently rolling out to TestFlight users.
Hi again, your app is getting better and better on each release, thanks! Today I would like to report:
spoiler
It seems spoilers doesn’t work on Bean yet
Incredible work on the app.
Here are a few things I noticed:
build 2023.07.26.00.32
The hacker theme looks so amazing. Thank you so much. Let me know if there is a link to donate. Would be more than happy to do so
A couple more fixes are incoming:
I want to give a bit more context about 2.
GIFs (and animated WebP images) have been the most common cause of crashes and UI freezes in Bean. The last couple of days have been particularly bad as this image of the Lemmy version of r/place has been shared.
This image is 12.4MB, animates for over 2 minutes, and (most importantly) is almost 3,000 frames. I can't even tell you exactly how many frames as both Preview and Photoshop froze on my Mac when trying to open the image.
The reason the number of frames is important, because a GIF is just a container for multiple images. Each frame is an individual image that needs to be decoded and rendered on the screen, and it turns out when there are a lot of them at 1000 x 1000px it is impossible to decode performantly.
Bean uses SDWebImage to download, cache, and render images behind the scenes. It's a fantastic library that is the de facto standard when working with remote images on iOS or macOS. Even with the progressiveLoad and scaleDownLargeImages options enabled, SDWebImage just cannot render certain images without iOS sounding the alarm and firing an OOM exception — especially when that image is 12.4MB and 3,000 frames.
At the moment, Bean will crash if you attempt to open this image. I have even tried working around this and rendering it in a web view, or using another library — FLAnimatedImage. Neither of these solutions worked and believe me, I'm not happy about that (seriously, I really hate GIFs now).
In the coming days, I'll be pushing another update that will check for the size of the image before deciding whether to animate it or not. When not animated, SDWebImage only decodes the first frame of a GIF which is no issue at all.
I know this isn't brilliant, as in the ideal world every image would be viewable within Bean, but it's the best solution I can think of to avoid a single image crashing the app.
Build 2023.08.02.01.29
I am seeing the time stamp on some comments and the posts when sorting all by new as into the future 4 hours from now.
One feature I consider necessary: op of a post should have a different color name or a badge next to their name in the comments.
Issues with opening communities within the community tab. No action happens when clicking on a community
Build 2023.08.06.22.41
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Push notifications are now also functioning as expected. Please test and let me know if you encounter issues.
The overlay is a bit confusing at the bottom of a thread and it’s hard to reach the upvote on the left. [edit] bean is still my go to Lemmy client btw. Can’t wait for the upcoming releases. You’re a blast, Steve. Thanks a lot.
Thank you, I’m glad you’re enjoying Bean! It looks like this is a positioning but in themes with translucent tab and nav bars. I’ll look to fix it tomorrow but in the meantime if you use the Dusk theme it should solve it.
Man this app is already well ahead of all of the other Lemmy clients out there, especially witht eh latest update adding all of the imporvements to comments! Keep up the amazing work!
Tap to collapse comments is no longer working for me.
D’oh! I undid the fix. Will sort today.
Can the app retain the sort and read options per community and the home view?
For an example, my home view would be set to hot and unread but for Bean community, new and all posts is my preference since unread would hide the megatread post.
Also, I don’t think pinned should be removed when filtering unread posts.
Thanks!
Today’s big change (aside from earlier’s network rewrite) is image uploads and a redesigned post composer.
It’s going to be hitting TestFlight in a few minutes so please let me know what you think when you’ve had a chance to try it 😄
Build 2023.07.23.01.28
It looks like I also accidentally pushed the post composer I’ve been working on live. Oops!
Enjoy some WIP 😅
Dunno what magic you’re using but this app feels really good.
Keep up the great work, this is a great start to potentially being the best Lemmy app.
Literally the only thing keeping me from going with this app instead of Memmy, is being able to sort by top 3, 6 and 12 hours. It’s so smooth.
I’m here just to say THANKS! Great app. I understand that maybe it has some issues, feels a little buggy, but man. It’s an Alpha!!!
I hope that you can keep the development.
Kudos.
Just came across something new. When swiping a pinned post, the whole card changes color. See image.
I’ve just pushed a build that will hopefully stop any slow down or crashes when scrolling. It still needs some optimisation but please let me know if you encounter any issues.
There's a bug that downvotes/upvotes of my own posts are not displayed correctly, even after force restarting the app/ reloading that post
Still needs swipe to upvote and reply within posts.
This is really promising! Obviously missing some major features, but damn is it sexy. When we can comment and vote on comments, this might already be good enough to be my main Lemmy browser app. Great start!
Thank you! Commenting is the next thing on my list so expect it within a couple of days 😄
Wow, looks good!
Wish list:
Thank you.
