Heron

The latest version of Heron lets you choose how your app's navigation looks, and also has the long requested gif search for posts!

Heron by the waterfall

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The latest Heron release lets you save your searches as @graze.social feeds! Pin them to your home screen, share with your friends, fandoms or whoever! Remember! Feeds are public on Bluesky. When permissioned spaces roll out, expect private saved searches :)

Still not quite the same, but the Heron app (@heron.tunji.dev) does a pretty good imitation.

Agami Heron at Agami Island #CostaRica #birdoftheday #birds #nature #ColourfulCharacters 🪶

I've been working on heron for a bit, so decided to do a lil branding and marketing refresh on the Play Store. Here are a few Heron highlights 😊

Heron 3.0.9 is out with performance improvements, and an even more immersive gallery 😊

Swallow portrait! 😍 Taken recently on the rocks at Martin's Haven in Pembrokeshire. 😊🐦 #birds You can buy my 2027 Birds calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c... ❤️

A quick mid-week update to Heron lands some major performance improvements. Scrolling the timeline should now be smoother than ever. Like buttery smooth. Also, if you do a media only search and go to the gallery, the gallery now lets you vertically scroll your search results where you left off.

The latest Heron release includes the new Bluesky setting to mute a profile's reposts and a quote post unrolling feature. You can also get a summary of an unrolled quote thread if you want.

Are you thinking of picking up a Galaxy Z Fold 8? Heron looks and works great on foldable devices 😊

This week's Heron release allows giving feedback to for feed generator about the posts it serves, as well as initial support for post drafts. It also improves scrollingand general UI performance in the app!

The latest Heron release now has advanced search. You can now choose to limit your search result to those with media,or just videos. If you do, you can also change the layout of the search results ☺️

A little Agami Heron romance last evening at Agami Island. #herons #birds #nature #costarica

The latest Heron release allows for downloading inference models that run completely locally on your device and work without an Internet connection. These models can be used to translate posts for world cup szn, and even vibe check a profile. I'm experimenting with more use cases for the future!

even got an announcement post with demo https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6q4y7p2wft3tncsffspts3m5/post/3mpm4s3elt2vf

The Black Heron theme is now truly OLED black 🌚

This week's Heron release is a small quality of life one. The Black Heron theme has been updated to be OLED black. The previous color scheme is now under the Pied Heron theme.

A Red-headed Woodpecker, a woodpecker that hunts down flying insects, with a insect wing on his/her beak.

The cool thing about standard.site content is Bluesky clients like @heron.tunji.dev already do exactly this. If Bluesky adds the same support, you'll see all your blog posts from platforms like the ones mentioned above in a tab on your profile.

Heron recently passed 1K downloads on the Google Play Store, and I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who use it. It really means a lot. If you enjoy using Heron, please consider leaving a review: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

The Agami Herons are back at Agami Island for nesting. They're a little later than they were last year because of the lower water levels, but over the next few weeks we should be seeing about 1,000 adults for the new season. #CostaRica #herons #birds

The latest Heron release supports viewing and uploading up to 10 photos. Also bc media uploads can sometimes fail, there's now a dedicated tasks settings item so you can see and retry all actions you've queued up so you always know what the app is up to ☺️

Today's Heron release expands standard site support significantly. A lot of the ideas in Alex's post below already existed in Heron, and now you can subscribe to standard site publications directly from the timeline! Check out the video to see Heron's integration 😊

The latest Heron update allows for quick switches between accounts and other miscellaneous improvements.

This week's (second 😭) Heron release fixes a memory leak that caused linear slow downs on each screen visited. To make up for it, Heron now has Rocksky support! Rocksky users now have their records on their profile 😊 🎶 🎵 🎸

The last few Heron releases have had a pretty bad memory leak. A fix should be out shortly. The leak is in the animations. Each screen you visit has its view heirachy kept in memory even when you leave it. So for each screen you visit the app would get slower and slower.

The latest Heron release adds a dedicated standard.site button to profiles, allowing you view a user's long form writing and their publications. It also makes it easy to subscribe to the publications you care about.

Also in today's Heron release is the ability to allow any timeline be adapted to media, grid or masonry grid layouts! Posts with no media will render an icon instead to let you know there's no media.

Your profile should reflect how you want to be seen, and show what you want it to show. The latest version of Heron allows you to sort your profile tabs, and show other atproto records on your profile like your custom feeds, or standard site docs and publications. Try it on Android or iOS!

Resplendent Quetzal at Paraiso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica #birds #nature

The thing about Bluesky is that you can access the network without using Bluesky's client or platform. Instead of being angry at their decisions, I recommend looking for an app that does the things you want. For instance, I use @heron.tunji.dev which already has carousels, so I'm good over here.

woah the ipad app for this on the mac is like a fully fledged tweetdeck! (not *really* the same since it's built for the iPad with touch controls in mind, but still!)

On the one hand, now I don't get to feel the superiority of the best mobile Atmosphere client being Android-only. On the other hand, Heron is amazing and you should absolutely use it if you can.

Pssst! The first public beta for Heron is now available for the iOS on Test Flight! There are a few things to polish up like notifications, but if you want standard site integration, different viewing modes for media, or cool Heron inspired themes, give it a go! testflight.apple.com/join/8GxSwx1w

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little affordances like dynamic profile shapes depending on original post, reply, and most-recent reply, make following threads easier. the ability to switch between linear and threaded conversation views while viewing a post.

🥹🥹 thank you so much!

@heron.tunji.dev isn't a @bsky.app client, it's an Atmosphere client 👀

The latest Heron release let's you manage your subscriptions to @standard.site publications! If you subscribe to a publication, you'll get a push notification when they publish new stories!

longform++ especially b/c clients like @heron.tunji.dev already launched this feature @tokimeki.blue has mochott.site: witchsky.app/profile/did:... and @wafrn.net devs are interested in some kind of @standard.site integration for long form articles I think long form is a really good next step

Its release Monday! Hope y'all had a wonderful time at #ATmosphereConf! For today's release, Heron is making it's way to larger screens; Heron for Mac is in now in alpha! If you've had a little Android FOMO and have a Mac, you can download the app from github from heron.tunji.dev.

Today's Heron release is for the tablet lovers and foldable aficionados! A lot of improvements have been made, from navigation animations, to grid timelines and side by side views ☺️ Also you can now toggle between linear and threaded replies on a post! Next up: 𓅣 on 💻 🖥️

I already felt guilty for not using leaflet more and now my main client is guilt tripping me about it 🤣 looking forward to it!