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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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 😁
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.
Holy crap. That’s awesome! Thanks!
Hey, black cat! From the screenshots, your app looks very promising. Would you consider making it FOSS, though? Just asking.
I am also looking forward to having access to the source code!
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 =]
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.
Nice job. But not available in my country (Germany). Looks really nice and familiar to reddit apps.
Just added Germany to the list of countries! I think it will take Google an hour or so to update.
Thanks!! Would be nice if you can setup the f-droid app.
Hab sie gerade installiert. Probier’s noch einmal ;)
jetzt klappt es!! Danke!!
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.
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.
Just adding a +1 for Boost’s formatting!
‘Subscribed’ is called ‘Frontpage’ in the app, you can find it in the sidebar.
Thank God there’s a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? “reddit.”
Will you be making this open source?
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.
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
I love the look and layout, but I can’t get any threads to load. It just says “No posts”
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.
I’ll take a look! Do you have any filters applied? Is that across all instances?
No filters. Seems to be across all instances as far as I can tell. I’m on a Pixel 5a if that helps.
Lemmy.ml posts should now be loading on the most recent version (1.0.25). Thanks for the feedback!
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.
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.
And you designed, developed, tested and published it in a less than 10 days? Your first android app? Really?
I switched over when the subreddits started going private. It’s been a lot of long nights haha.
Not my first app :)
Oook.
There’s no reason to be so critical of OP for this … if anything, it’s impressive, or at least cute. Why you gotta be bringing Reddit negativity over here? )=
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
Strange - I’ll take a look! I’m testing on a Pixel 6 so I would think it would work.
I’m on pixel 6 and it doesn’t work with logged in aurora store.
Edit: it works now!
Downloaded and used for an hour or so. I’d like to see an option to change the font size. I like my stuff to be small so I can get more content on the screen. 1.6 posts is pretty bad for me. I also couldn’t find a way to change my default homepage to “subscribed - new” but maybe I just didn’t search hard enough. Either way, it’s good to have some competition for Jerboa!
I’d also love to see an option to change the font size, but for the opposite reason - my eyes suck and I need bigger text! Lol. I love it so far either way!
Options for text sizes coming up in the next release :)
Fantastic! Thank you so very much! Also, damn you’re quick, lol! I hope you’re looking after yourself and taking care of yourself above all. It’s important - you’re important! <3
Thank you for the kind words, it’s much appreciated!
Looks great but it says it’s not available in my country (Brazil)
Just checked and was able to get it to install on my end, OP might have updated it in the meantime.
yeah it’s fixed now, thanks anyway
