Introducing Connect for Lemmy (i.imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years 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 😁

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years 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 =]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Nice job. But not available in my country (Germany). Looks really nice and familiar to reddit apps.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hab sie gerade installiert. Probier's noch einmal ;)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Just added Germany to the list of countries! I think it will take Google an hour or so to update.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks!! Would be nice if you can setup the f-droid app.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

And you designed, developed, tested and published it in a less than 10 days? Your first android app? Really?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I switched over when the subreddits started going private. It's been a lot of long nights haha.

Not my first app :)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Looks great but it says it's not available in my country (Brazil)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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).

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I love the look and layout, but I can't get any threads to load. It just says "No posts"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'll take a look! Do you have any filters applied? Is that across all instances?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Seconded. I logged in but the posts don't show up. Also only my subscriptions on my main instance are listed, not subscriptions from other instances.

This app looks really promising. Reminds me of Boost.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Will you be making this open source?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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 :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Looks great from the screenshots!

The Google Play link doesn't let me install it though and I can't find it via the Google Play app.

Edit: it says that the app is not available for any of my devices. I'm using a Pixel 7

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Strange - I'll take a look! I'm testing on a Pixel 6 so I would think it would work.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Google Play say that is not available/compatible for my Xiaomy 12 Pro

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