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I've resurrected lemmur, a beautiful flutter app. Coming soon to an instance near you! (bigfoot.ninja)
submitted 1 year ago by zach@bigfoot.ninja to c/android@lemmy.world
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Hey guys, a week ago I started working on a lemmy app like many others as an excuse to learn flutter. Along the way I found an old app that was abandoned but very well built.

After a couple of days I was able to get things running and semi-useable again. Including posting this post from the app! The main effort being updating to 0.17.x.

Here's some screenshots:

I'll be renaming the app (so I can republish it), tentatively under the name "Lem".. but really open to ideas here.

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[-] Poiar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If you don't go with any of the other people's suggestions, I'd like to inform you that in Danish, Lem basically means penis :)

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey Zack, we should probably talk!

I follwed the same route but focused on the iOS side and so I have "Limbo" in TestFlight! Lemmur is such a great base isn't it? It's such a shame that the original devs moved on.

Have a look at my take at https://lemmy.world/c/limbo

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 1 points 1 year ago

Woah! Yeah we should talk!

Can't believe they abandoned it.

Matrix: @zachatrocity:matrix.org

Here is my latest write up on progress and alpha re-release for Android:

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

[-] StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Holy crap, this reminds me so much of Infinity for Reddit (my favorite reddit client.) If this releases I'd love to try it out!

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 4 points 1 year ago

If you're game to test while I get the wheels back on we're making progress!

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

Note: significant bug with the comments due to API redesign that happened in the last 4 months.

[-] mikestevens@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha, how ironic. I downloaded the old Lemmur from F-Droid today, having no idea it had been abandoned. When I couldn't add lemmy.world, I knew something was up.

It's a good looking app, so good on your resurrecting it!

As for a name... Given it's a resurrected app, how about Zommur? 😁

[-] dimspace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"Leap"

Because, that's what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse

Leap for Lemmy

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of infinity for reddit which I'm going to miss past July 1st

[-] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's a workaround floating over on Reddit. You can use infinity after July 1st if you use your own perosnal api key. A guy has a one click script for it

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[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hey man, thanks for the hard work! Seems it only works for lemmy.ml? I can't add my account at lemmy.world!

[-] root@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This, please.

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 1 points 1 year ago

Don't get Lemmy from the play store. That's not mine. The original devs abandoned the project.

Lemmy.ml is no longer required and will likely be removed as the default for the app.

I've renamed it and here is some info on how you can get the first Alpha release:

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could make THE LEMMY app:

  1. By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
  2. By scraping kbin magazines too
[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm working on that separately as an instance utility.

But Lemmynade (new name) does aggregate multiple instances and user accounts into a single feed which is nice

[-] coffeemonster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Damn this Is pretty . Thanks so much for this!

[-] Gaspar@endofti.me 1 points 1 year ago

Looks good. Did you get the original author's permission or was it open source?

Also, as a name... how about "Let Me"?

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 2 points 1 year ago

Open source with gnu gpl v2.

That was the first thing I checked! Hahah

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you going to put it on GitHub? Obviously you're not required to release code until you release a build into the wild, but just curious if we can see your progress in real time by any chance lol

Unless you hate the name Lemmur I don't know if you have to change it yet either.

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah you can track my progress here: https://github.com/zachatrocity/lemmynade

I'll make a formal GitHub and fdroid release hopefully tomorrow.

Well I know I could keep the name and have a separate bundle ID. But the old app is still on the play store. Figured it'd be easier to rename then deal with the duplicate named app on the store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krawieck.lemmur

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[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

Looking great, can't wait to test it! Nothing against Jerboa for the time being, but alternatives are always welcome. Been testing summit yesterday that someone posted as well, and I think every app has some unique features about it, so let's see where the journey goes.

Ideally I'd love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

As for the name, isn't Lem a bit short? Not that I dislike it, but in terms of being properly searchable on google and the likes it might be better to go for a longer, unique search string, else it could get a bit cluttered.

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 1 points 1 year ago

Should have a testable android APK on the repo tomorrow and I'll work on getting the iOS app out for people to sideload.

Over all it works pretty well, there's a few bugs but it's a solid foundation!

Yeah I suck at names, I'll keep thinking

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ideally I'd love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

I have good news for you. Sync for Lemmy is happening!

!SyncForLemmy@lemmy.world

I second Lem being too short unless op plans on doing a lot of SEO or making people search Lem for Lemmy.

[-] DARbarian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I think Lem is too similar to Mlem and Memmy and whatnot. I'd go with something Fed- or Thread- or Verse-related. Like Threader (could style it differently) or something

[-] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think Lemmynade would be a perfect name.

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

I second this

[-] Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sweeeet, lookin' forward to testing it out

[-] DannyBoy@mastodon.ie 1 points 1 year ago

@zach IDK why, but this app gives me some Infinity for Reddit vibes.
Probably is the UI. Those upvote and downvote buttons.

[-] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, I used to use Lemmur when I first joined Lemmy. Nice to see it revived.

[-] justabrownie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This looks so much better than Jerboa for Lemmy. Can't wait for the release

[-] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you, this is great news! I already installed it from Fdroid nad tried to test it, But it doesn't recognize my server, says instance not found (discuss.tchncs.de)

[-] Cybermass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Man this would be tits, I'm using jerboa right now but the app has a bunch of UI issues where it just feels kinda clunky, I don't mind it looking visually dated (this does look better though) but it's more about functionality to me, I'd be interested in trying a different app.

[-] morelikepinniped@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This looks great! I never used Slide, I was a JoeyforReddit user, but I'm really excited to see all the different apps in development.

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