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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kuro_neko@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org

Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Features:

  • Material U
  • Dark and Light themes
  • List view / Card view / Fullwidth view
  • Filter lists for hiding posts
  • Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances
  • Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup
  • Search and community autofill
  • Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @)
  • Saving posts
  • full sort types
  • NSFW view options (hide, blur, show)
  • copy text and url on all posts and comments
  • add comments, replies, and new posts
  • comment replies with line indicators

Here's other screenshots:

Future plans:

  • Improving the inbox
  • Swipe actions
  • Multi-~~reddit ~~communities

Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts!

Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

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[-] arcrust@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

The app looks great! Feels very fluid.

I have only three requests:

  • make it FOSS in spirit of the fediverse (obviously you don't have to, that's your choice)
  • give me a way to download pics from inside the app. I very often download memes and share them in other chats. You've got open external, which works, but it's an extra step. Downloading in app would just be more convenient.
  • lastly, give me a way to buy you a beer 😁
[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you're enjoying it! I've added a download button to media views. Open source is on the roadmap as well if there's enough interest.

[-] arcrust@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Holy crap. That's awesome! Thanks!

[-] thann@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I would strongly recommend open-sourcing it! There are several FOSS apps already and it would be hard to compete against them without opening up =]

Hey, black cat! From the screenshots, your app looks very promising. Would you consider making it FOSS, though? Just asking.

[-] pattern@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Thank God there's a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? "reddit."

[-] harry315@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Damn that looks awesome! Did you find any good docs on the API? I only found the lemmy-js-client, which is a library, though. Wanted to do some shenanigans with Python and Lemmy, but there doesn't seem to be too much documentation...

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I had a hard time with the API docs too to be honest. I read through https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/04-api.html first but it was pretty high level. My main reference was the typing on the lemmy-js-client as well. I used the Dart Lemmy API client here https://github.com/LemmurOrg/lemmy_api_client but unfortunately it's not being maintained (and didn't work without modification since the API has changed since then).

[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

For what it's worth, it should be possible to use the ActivityPub API, which is just a traditional JSON API with a JSON-LD @context field you can probably safely ignore (as long as the context uses vocabulary from activitystreams). For example, try running this request:

GET https://beehaw.org/c/technology/outbox
accept: application/ld+json

The nice thing about the ActivityPub API is that all the fields should be documented. If you run your response through a JSON-LD expander, you can often take the resulting field names and "dereference" them (aka open them in a browser) to find documentation on what those fields mean.

[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Congrats for the release! I finally have alternative to Jerboa!

Some feedback if you don't mind:

  • Full Height view. It's like the full width view, but display the image without any cropping.
  • Tap and hold to show image in full screen, release to close. Very useful for compact views. Also should works for articles thumbnails.
  • Native imgur support. Right now it's treated as a web page. If it'll require using paid API, just disregard this until you have some funding.
  • Preload images when on wifi (optional setting). Basically preload the next N images in the list so they'll appear instantly.
  • Show full community names and user name. Right now it only show the community name and user name, but not the instance name. This is confusing if you subscribed to multiple communities with the same name from multiple instances. Same for usernames.
  • option to toggle denser comments views with minimal whitespace.
  • (possible bug?) The community list on the side menu doesn't show all my subscribed communities.
[-] CreepyRainbow@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

These are very good suggestions! would also like for it to show the instance name of a post as well as the hold-to-show-image

[-] babeuh@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Will you be making this open source?

[-] Aboyandhistrains@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I love the app! I just wanted to give you some debug info. I can't log into a second account on my current andoid tablet or andoid 10 phone. The button to do so does nothing.

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Hi! could you confirm you're on the latest version? it should say 1.0.31 under settings

[-] Aboyandhistrains@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That fixed it! You and your team are doing great work! It is appreciated!

[-] Aboyandhistrains@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That fixed it! You and your team are working very fast! Keep up the good work! It is appreciated!

[-] Aboyandhistrains@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That fixed it! You and your team are working very fast! Keep up the good work! It is appreciated!

[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

so far I'm really liking it. I would like alternating backgrounds on comments just to help separate them out a little.

I also really like the colored line on the side of comments that the pwa has to help you be able to easily see comment chain depths at a glance.

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you're liking it! I've added some more spacing between comments on the latest release which should help to separate them. Please let me know what you think! Also added the ability to edit comments.

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[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It's interesting. Needs some more formatting options imo. I liked how in boost for reddit the titles of posts were always at least as big as the preview of the body of the post. Just makes it look much cleaner imo. Could use a font size option. Could use some color options too eventually.

Also, it needs a "Subscribed" page. Default lemmy has this page that only shows you content from communities youre subscribed to. You should see about getting that feed on your app.

Overall though great work, it looks really promising thus far and I'm impressed with how quickly you've put this together.

[-] Flicsmo@rammy.site 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'Subscribed' is called 'Frontpage' in the app, you can find it in the sidebar. Edit - oops, looks like kuro_neko beat me!

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I'll take a look at how Boost for Reddit formats their titles, thanks! The 'Frontpage' once you're signed in should be equivalent to the Subscribed page.

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[-] DerGreiss@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

just downloaded the app. I really like it. please keep up the good work

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[-] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, you are really fast! I've been using Jerboa and the PWA, but not super happy with either. Yours look great! Will use it more and feed back to you if that's okay.

One thing I found is that it doesn't show the number of new comments. I usually sort by NewComments, and I would expect to e.g. see "49 comments (14 new)" like Jerboa/PWA.

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback! I'll add the new comment counter in the next release.

[-] Urnchos@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for making this!

My first impressions upon downloading are that I'm glad it exists but I think I'll stick to Jerboa for the time being. It looks really well made for those who are into the cards display format, however I'm personally not a fan of cards views on apps and I feel the list view isn't quite there yet.

One interesting quirk I noticed worth noting for the developer, not sure if it's a bug. I signed in with Urnchos@sh.itjust.works and when I click profile it seems to display my comment history of my Kbin account by the same name. I'm not certain if the profile would display the comments and whatnot of all instances that have that name?

[-] infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can you also host the APK or upload it on F-Droid?

//edit

I ask because im on a de-googled pixel 5 running lineage OS so I cant exactly just go get it off the Play Store.

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[-] Omripresent@leddit.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looks good and I was able to get it on pretty quickly. I was about to post this from the app but saw it's missing the web's markdown shortcuts and image upload option.

Also looking at this post the screenshots are cropped and I didn't see a straight forward way of looking at the whole image.

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll make a note to add markdown shortcuts and image upload to the next release. I should probably make those cropped images expand out on click.

[-] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That UI looks really clean. I love it. Is it open source? Not that i dont trust you but i try to not use any closed source apps anymore, i would appreciate it if you would share the link to the source code.

[-] crius@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

just a quick feedback, when being in the dark mode, the user switching remain in light mode. Also the node selection suggesting the possible nodes would be appreciated.

also, adding new accounts after the first one, doesn't seems to work.

I added my lemmy.world and it seemed to work.

anything else besides it, didn't work (tried, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.)

overall it's a good mvp, well done, need a little more work and i would appreciate if it was a FOSS to absolutely avoid situations in which an app become the unofficial-official app but then a sudden surge of egocentrism from an individual take it away.

[-] Tywele@dataterm.digital 1 points 1 year ago

I signed into my dataterm.digital account but when I go on profile I see my feddit.de profile even though I didn't login with it.

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Ah I must not be filtering the username with the instance so it's grabbing the first username match it sees. I'll fix this in the next release :)

[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

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