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Thunder App

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An open-source, cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android.

This community is intended to discuss features and feature suggestions for Thunder; as well as friendly, respectful talks about Lemmy in general.

Please use the GitHub repository linked below to submit bug reports, so keeping track of them is easier, and make sure to search first if you already can find an issue for your report.

If there are any developers who would like to contribute, feel free to reach out on GitHub!

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Thunder is now on Google Play Store (play.google.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to provide a big announcement that Thunder is now available on Google Play Store!

The direct link to the Google Play Store listing is here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hjiangsu.thunder

As far as general releases go, I'll try to keep all the different versions in sync (GitHub, Google Play, TestFlight) to minimize the amount of confusion.

I would like to give a big thanks to @CTalvio for helping with the graphics and screenshots that you see on the listing page, and others for contributing to the overall project! This would not be possible without all their help. Thunder is a community-driven project, and all your contributions towards the project help shape the way it is. If you are interested in contributing to Thunder in any way, feel free to reach out!

If you would like to join in on the conversation for Thunder, we have a Matrix page here: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org

If you would like to check out the GitHub page, it is linked here: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Yay! This is hands down the best lemmy app so far.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thunder might be better now with updates but when I sampled all the apps I settled on Liftoff as the best one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like Connect :)

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

I am using connect right now so they'll beg to tell me what's better about thunder

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I agree. Love it and get serious RedReader vibes from it

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

By far the best Lemmy app. Really reminiscent of Relay for Reddit, which coincidentally was by far the best Reddit app IMHO.

Keep up the awesome work!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Great work, really thank you guys! I'd been keeping an eye on this app because it looked very promising in beta. It's one of the best Lemmy clients I've ever tried and I love it being open source. I hope I could contribute, but I have a quite limited Flutter knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

You dont have to know code to contribute. Answer questions when you see them, report issues, etc. I am a screen reader user and make it my goal to find anything that makes using a screen reader in the app more difficult and reporting it. I suspect thunder is one of the most accessible lemmy apps because of all my reports and the devs fixing them.

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

You definitely don’t need Flutter knowledge to help out! Providing general feedback on UI/UX, or ways to improve the overall experience is just as valuable as helping implement the features!

I started out having very limited Flutter knowledge, and have been using this experience to learn about Flutter. That’s the main reason why I even started on this app 😅

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here I go downloading another Lemmy app!

Let's see if this one beats my current go-to, Liftoff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just have them all downloaded and bounce between them when they get a new update lol

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Thunder had been my favorite Lemmy app for a while now. I've tried others and some have a lot of potential, but Thunder is the app that does most things the way I like it. Congrats on the launch!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brilliant news. Will it be getting an fdroid release?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Brilliant news. Will it be getting a lemmy version?

(t'was on fdroid the entire time)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Awesome! Will the beta chanel still be through GitHub or are you also setting up beta testing through play store?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For now, beta/pre-release stuff will be on GitHub until I figure out how to do it through Play Store as well. My thoughts:

GitHub:

Will always be here for those who don't want to use Google Play Services/TestFlight for preference reasons

Google Play:

General releases in parity with the general releases on GitHub/TestFlight
Beta stream for the pre-releases, in parity with pre-releases on GitHub

TestFlight:

For now, it'll only be for general releases since there's no way to easily create "streams" for people who want to be in the beta stream
Eventually, if possible, get it on the App Store for general releases, and then TestFlight will be for beta pre-releases

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I can't find it weird, maybe not compatible with my device? I'm on Android 13 lineageOS, nonrooted.

EDIT: I was able to get to it by direct URL but for some reason couldn't find by searching

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It should be compatible with Android 13, but it may take some time to propagate through the app store since it was published not too long ago! Does tapping on the direct link take you to a valid page? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hjiangsu.thunder

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

I had the same issue. It hasn't propagated into the search corpus. The direct link works.

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[–] activator90 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't know if this is the right place but the issues I noticed are:

All posts seem to be blended into each other because of the bad default dark theme
No way to delete my own comments
After I deleted my comment from a different lemmy client, it is not reflected here, even if I restart the app
More precise text size controls needed. The default text size is too small

There are a lots of things that Thunder does perfectly fine. I can't list all those here

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

You can edit your comment by swiping from left to right on it. Cant delete it yet though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

For some reason bitwarden will not auto fill for my accounts.

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

I use BitWarden personally and have not encountered this. I would suggest creating an issue on GitHub so that we can track it down!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looking good, very much reminds me of Relay for Reddit! Hopefully there will be options to hide the top and bottom bars while scrolling in the future :)

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

This one is my app of choice!

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

Wow this app is amazing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I’m an iOS only user but I have to say I just love the amount of solid Lemmy apps that we already have available!

Excellent looking app!

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

Just installed. Love to have a hide feature that could be implemented with gesture/swiping as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is the difference with Connect? Genuinely just curious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Excellent news, although the app is kinda broken to me since like the last version I guess.

It sticks within the menus and it is slow on average, I clean installed the PlayStore version to start clean but still have the same experience.

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

Hmm, could you open up an issue on GitHub regarding this? In general, I think Thunder should be fairly well optimized for most devices

If you could provide some more details about your device and OS version, we might be able to trace down the issue!

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

This is really good news! Congratulations, Thunder and Voyager are my two favorite Lemmy apps and it's great to see you get your Google Play offering for your app!

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

Very nice first impression, thank you. Could we get more font size options? I'd like to increase the size even more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really like this app. Still missing some much needed features and more optimizations, but very nice.

[+] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Haven't looked at GitHub honestly. I would like to be able to change the theme. An actual theming engine that makes sense would be great. I have other apps that either give you presets, or just a broken theming engine (don't want to name names). I'd like an option to customize posts more in my feed like to make posts "more full width"? If that makes sense, like I want to add more padding to above and under the post to make it less crowded? Less crammed? I'd like to see a quicker way to switch instances/accounts, like a constant drop down on the top that has all accounts. Notifications is still not working as well. When I go to the notifications and click on a reply I got on one of my comments, it either shows just the parent post or shows nothing at all. Also there is "red numbers" on the notifications section to show how many notifications I have. It would be great if it went straight to that reply. I have more, but I'll make list some time in the near future when I have time :)

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