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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

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[–] radix@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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