• demesisx@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Yes. Case in point: there are at least 10 Lemmy iOS apps. I’ll give you ten guesses on which ones are actually native Swift…

    There are a quite a few Android apps in progress too. How many are written in Kotlin?

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      1 year ago

      Mlem is SwiftUI. It’s a buggy pile of crap that loses posts, says “nothing here” when there is something there, has bizarre navigation (where do I tap to go to a post?) Some of that may improve; some seems like no design.

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      1 year ago

      Voyager isn’t native and it’s good. I’m not totally sure what the hate is for React Native for apps like this. It’s an abstraction over Swift, it’s still Swift under the hood isn’t it?

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        1 year ago

        In my experience, Voyager is still pretty buggy too. For example, try editing a post then go to do anything else after the fact. I always have to restart the whole app when I go to edit a post I made. They have a ton more features than anyone else but there are still tons of bugs.

        react native is another layer and lags behind the dev of swift by at least a year. This is a huge problem for new api’s like SwiftUI, in my experience. Ps. Native is ALWAYS better than an approximation of native.