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.
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? 😁
Literally installed it today too lol
I did the same thing last week, that’s how I got started on this whole thing! Hahaha
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
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
I think Lemmynade would be a perfect name.
I second this
Holy crap that’s pretty good. We might have a winner
Mlem
There’s already an iOS app using this name.
“Leap”
Because, that’s what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse
Leap for Lemmy
You could make THE LEMMY app:
- By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
- By scraping kbin magazines too
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
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 :)
These things are important when it comes to international products 🤣
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.
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
Sounds awesome! Do you have a link to the repo so I can follow you there?
Yeah you can track progress here:
https://github.com/zachatrocity/lem
I’ll make a more formal GitHub release hopefully tomorrow!
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!
I second Lem being too short unless op plans on doing a lot of SEO or making people search Lem for Lemmy.
No fucking way!!! YES!
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Sweet I’m gonna use this. I always thought it kinda wild that people don’t write readers for this kind of website in RN or Flutter, considering you don’t need any extra native functionality at all. Would love to contribute too.
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!
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.
Looks good. Did you get the original author’s permission or was it open source?
Also, as a name… how about “Let Me”?
Open source with gnu gpl v2.
That was the first thing I checked! Hahah
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.
Yeah you can track my progress here: https://github.com/zachatrocity/lem
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
I didn’t think to mention this until just now, but you’re probably going to have to do a more significant rework of the app pretty soon to work with Lemmy backend v0.18. You can test it against some public development instances in the short term, but unless the release candidate is held up, you probably have like 1 week before the app at least has issues on most servers (not entirely sure how much of a breaking change it’ll be code-wise).
Yup, been tracking that in the matrix. Will be curious how long it takes most instances to update once it’s officially released.
Hey man, thanks for the hard work! Seems it only works for lemmy.ml? I can’t add my account at lemmy.world!
This, please.
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:
@zach IDK why, but this app gives me some Infinity for Reddit vibes.
Probably is the UI. Those upvote and downvote buttons.Yeah it does look similar. I didn’t design the UI up to this point. I’ve justed updated it to support the lemmy backend starting from 0.17.x
It fairly out of the box material design flutter
That was also my first thought seeing it!
Thanks you, that’s great :)
Do you mean F-droid repo?
As for suggestion, I noticed that you can’t really add a custom Lemmy instance.
You can, it’s on the settings:
Yeah but it doesn’t let you put whatever you want , or perhaps it fails when it detects a new instance version. I tried a few instances I have accounts on and none were working 😔
Ah yeah that has been fixed.
Is it open source?
Yes it is (GPL 2.0)
Any idea why a newer project would elect for the GPL 2.0 over the 3.0? I know that the Linux kernel is GPL 2.0 still and I think it had something to do with changes regarding DRM (Tivoization). But I don’t see how that would apply here.
