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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just a quick feedback, when being in the dark mode, the user switching remain in light mode. Also the node selection suggesting the possible nodes would be appreciated.
also, adding new accounts after the first one, doesn’t seems to work.
I added my lemmy.world and it seemed to work.
anything else besides it, didn’t work (tried, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.)
overall it’s a good mvp, well done, need a little more work and i would appreciate if it was a FOSS to absolutely avoid situations in which an app become the unofficial-official app but then a sudden surge of egocentrism from an individual take it away.
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!
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.
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!!
Not available in Switzerland either
Nor the Netherlands :(
Looks nice, but not available in my country.
Which country? I’ll add it to the list of supported countries.
Curaçao. Thanks!
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. Edit - oops, looks like kuro_neko beat me!
I love the look and layout, but I can’t get any threads to load. It just says “No posts”
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!
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.
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? )=
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
Can you also host the APK or upload it on F-Droid?
Yeah I’ll look into uploading the APK and add a reply here when it’s ready.
Thanks, open source/foss is even better but thanks for at least looking at distributing it on other platforms!
I think I will open source it in the future but right now it’s a very messy codebase coming from essentially a long coding binge.
A lot of people think that way but don’t be afraid to post code because it isn’t perfect. Lots of enterprise software looks awful. Also anyone who wants to be an ass about your code for such an early release isn’t worth listening too. Most are just happy to help and can do pull requests to make your project better.
Agreed. I’ve seen some horrors in corporate code bases in my time. Created some, even. 😁
@kuro_neko This please, I want it on F-Droid too. Thank you, the client looks amazing.
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
Nothing is showing up in my feed when signed in to lemmy.ml
Also, the Google password manager is trying to input the password into the instance text box when trying to sign in. Pixel 7 Pro.
Hi, this should now be fixed on the latest release (1.0.25). Thank you for your feedback!
Thanks man! It’s working now. Super smooth for the most part. Upvotes/downvotes still take quite a while to register. An Amoled black would be awesome as would a Small Cards view.
Edit: Another suggestion is to add a way to jump to the next parent comment in a post. Looks like Jeroba just added this and I’ve been missing this feature from some of the reddit apps I used to use.
Hi, thanks for the feedback! I’ve added an AMOLED theme on the latest update (1.0.35). A small cards view is a good idea and I’ll take a look at Jeroba’s jump buttons. Cheers!
Thanks!
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.
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 :)
The screenshots look good, but I’m not able to test it because it’s not available in the netherlands :(
Added Netherlands to the list of countries!
I may be wrong but, are you not showing all communities subscribed in the list, just the first page? I see 10 but im subbed to somewere closer to 50…
Yeah 10 I believe is the default limit on that API call. I’ll increase that in the next release!
There is a maximum for the limit, you’ll need to do actual pagination
actual pagination (and caching) added on the most recent version (1.0.25). Thank you for your feedback!
