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sam henri gold

alright it took the better part of my weekend but I finally back-ported Mastodon to iOS 4

an iPhone 4 showing a period-correct Mastodon app interface
The full-res mockup. The nav bar has texture, avatars are sunken into the post card, everything is correct
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sam henri gold

kinda curious if I can even attach a 4K version here without it getting crunched down…

Jordan Kay

@samhenrigold Seeing Helvetica Neue on my phone screen again gave me a physical reaction

TunafishTiger

@samhenrigold Now I can scroll through the toots like I’m back in 2011.

Brother Holmes :screwattack:

@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.

Richie Rich

@chockenberry @samhenrigold @Gargron Will it have a 5250 screen, so I can run it on pub400.com? 🥰

sam henri gold

@chockenberry the king himself!!! thanks man, appreciate it especially from you 🥹

David Frank

@samhenrigold I love this for 2 reasons: 1. goddamn this look good, great work;

2. in your first photo, if you zoom in, you can see extra black pixels around those clean texts, that’s photo enhancing AI in latest iPhone hallucinating extra details, what have iPhone become🥹

Ben 🏳️‍🌈

@ash as somebody that used ios4 I heartily recommend not

Ash K

@ben haha yeah, they were the bad old days huh? Still a pretty cool achievement

Ben 🏳️‍🌈

@ash cool yes, but ios4 was shit in comparison.. and todays version is also shit in new ways

Григорий Клюшников

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

sam henri gold

@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.

Brennan Stehling

@samhenrigold Will you write a blog post of how you did this?

Григорий Клюшников

Anyway. I don't consider myself a designer, but

Fúlvio Leo

@samhenrigold I never had an iPhone, but this is just awesome. Gave me some nostalgia I didn't know I have. Truly amazing!

Benaresh

@samhenrigold Cool profile picture. It reminds me of this:

Ozzelot :anarchy: :linux:

@samhenrigold Great. Time for me to downgrade something to iOS 4 and Live That Life.

AJ

I need this. will this ever be released?

Jari Pennanen

@samhenrigold Skeumorphic Mastodon! More tusk and fur!

William B Peckham

@samhenrigold I have ported a few things and speaking from experience to do this in a weekend is impressive as all get out!

Hikarii

@samhenrigold I NEED TO KNOW HOW bc I was struggling to find a way to use mastodon on ioS 11, this is fantastic

Colin Cogle :verified:

@samhenrigold A slow useless phone, but a nice general-purpose toot machine. Way to reuse what’d otherwise be e-waste!

Mike Stevens

@samhenrigold 😂 omg it looks like oldschool twitter!

Ge0rG

@samhenrigold
That's excellent, and now I feel all sad that I wasn't able to go below Android 4.4 with my own attempts... 😁

Ь∅ \\ Calienø :bulbasaurroll:

@samhenrigold is this available to download? Does it work on iOS 6?

deBaer

@samhenrigold For a moment, I felt like I should make a Mastodon client for PalmOS, but, alas, there already is one. github.com/knickish/heffalump

David Blue ※

@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.

Xav

@samhenrigold Can you share an ipa for this? 👀👀👀

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