alright it took the better part of my weekend but I finally back-ported Mastodon to iOS 4
kinda curious if I can even attach a 4K version here without it getting crunched down…
@samhenrigold Seeing Helvetica Neue on my phone screen again gave me a physical reaction
@samhenrigold Now I can scroll through the toots like I’m back in 2011.
@samhenrigold hell yes!!! hell yes!!! hell yes!!! h
@samhenrigold OMG the app UI is perfection!!! 🤩 ❤️
@samhenrigold @Gargron That’s awesome! I have an old iPhone that I keep around the house and use as an iPod. This would be perfect to load on it.
@samhenrigold you are some kind of hero
@samhenrigold @Gargron IM STILL WORKING ON MY COBOL PORT STAY TUNED
@samhenrigold @Gargron I love to see this kind of thing. Good work!
@chockenberry the king himself!!! thanks man, appreciate it especially from you 🥹

I'm trying to find a pre-iOS-7 app icon template psd but all of them seem to have link-rotten into oblivion 😭

edit: web archive archived one, thank god

Wayback Machine

@grishka it's wild how little official design support they gave back then (beyond the HIG). design kits? icon templates? go pay some dude on gumtree for a psd or fireworks file.
@samhenrigold Will you write a blog post of how you did this?
@samhenrigold gosh I miss those tiny little iPhones
Anyway. I don't consider myself a designer, but
@samhenrigold I never had an iPhone, but this is just awesome. Gave me some nostalgia I didn't know I have. Truly amazing!
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Can you backport me to 2011?
@samhenrigold Cool profile picture. It reminds me of this:
@samhenrigold Great. Time for me to downgrade something to iOS 4 and Live That Life.
I need this. will this ever be released?
@samhenrigold Skeumorphic Mastodon! More tusk and fur!
@samhenrigold Damm I want modern mastodon to look like that!
@samhenrigold I have ported a few things and speaking from experience to do this in a weekend is impressive as all get out!
@samhenrigold I NEED TO KNOW HOW bc I was struggling to find a way to use mastodon on ioS 11, this is fantastic
@samhenrigold A slow useless phone, but a nice general-purpose toot machine. Way to reuse what’d otherwise be e-waste!
@samhenrigold 😂 omg it looks like oldschool twitter!
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That's excellent, and now I feel all sad that I wasn't able to go below Android 4.4 with my own attempts... 😁
@samhenrigold is this available to download? Does it work on iOS 6?
@samhenrigold For a moment, I felt like I should make a Mastodon client for PalmOS, but, alas, there already is one. https://github.com/knickish/heffalump
GitHub - knickish/heffalump: palmOS mastodon client

palmOS mastodon client. Contribute to knickish/heffalump development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

@samhenrigold beautiful... what do you charge?? lol

so many old iOS clients (not quite *that* old) I'd love to be able to use again. I know it's not that simple, but I'm pretty sure Amarok's source code is just around the bend.

@samhenrigold Can you share an ipa for this? 👀👀👀
@samhenrigold oh my god this is beautiful. oh for the AU where the iPhone 4 is still being produced.