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
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TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 3y
Apollo. Sigh
Sivar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I’m glad this was the top comment
TheLonelyDude2049@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 13 pts · 3y
Sync for Reddit.
godless@latte.isnot.coffee · 5 pts · 3y
Definitely. Just waiting for Sync for Lemmy, can't be long.
TheLonelyDude2049@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Yeah, it's coming soon.
berkat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
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.
jerkjaguar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
It was Joey for Reddit. Currently on Connect for Lemmy
confetti_8tVST5@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Bongles@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
Yeah I think Google's current thing is material design
ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Yep, that’s what their design language is called. It’s changed a lot over the years, but still kept the same name
AugustMetronome@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 3y
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.
EliasChao@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 3y
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.
radix@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
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.
8bit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Lemuroid and Libretube are good examples. I personally think they’re beautiful and match great with stock (Google) Android Material Design
MedicPigBabySaver@sh.itjust.works · -38 pts · 3y
Fuck Apple.
Bongles@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y
Haven't heard of that app.