Hi everybody, I’m a UI/UX designer and I wanna contribute to the community here with my expertise. Here is a quick prototype for a Android Lemmy app with Material You Design, it’s a simple and customizable app. With this app, I also want to improve the experience when exploring different servers.
Obviously, this is just a concept, so if any developer interest, I’m very willing to collaborate with 🫡 . Vice versa, if anyone stucks with designing his/her own Lemmy client, just reach out to me and I will give you a hand.
Here is a quick demo of some basic features: https://vimeo.com/843481714?share=copy
And here is the figma file if you wanna take a look: https://www.figma.com/file/ZBR30l0ZcKuyKMPjeDmvdF/Lemmy-Android-app?type=design&node-id=53526-31054&mode=dev
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This looks really great! If you’re interested in contributing to an app you should check out Liftoff!
We’re totally open source and community contribution driven and we’re moving fast! But we’re lacking designer contributions!
If you’re interested check out our open GitHub issues/enhancements:
Got that, I’m checking Matrix so we could have a chat
I just discovered liftoff last night on the Playstore. Finally really getting into Lemmy now that I have a good app to use.
The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they’re both janky as all heck.
I’m really enjoying wefwef. It’s smooth and works well. No weirdness or issues on my end.
Have a look at https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ or https://lemmy.world/post/465785
I’m currently using connect for lemmy. It works fine, but I still have to use the web version to jumping between servers, which is why I come up with this idea.
Hmm, connect let’s me switch between accounts on different instances just fine.
yeah, I’m just too lazy to create account for every servers I find interesting, especially when the different between them are minor
Why would you create an account on every server? You can access any community on any server that your server is federated with.
Thunder and Connect are better than Jerboa, haven’t tried Lemur
Using thunder now. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best experience for me that I’ve found so far.
Liftoff is perfect.
You misspelled “Connect”
(They’re both pretty good actually)
Liftoff is pretty great. Devs keep making improvement every day.
I am still waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out, but Liftoff might convert me.
Does liftoff look different on Android? I feel like it’s ugly as sin on iOS.
Pretty sure that’s just how Android looks.
I think it looks fine on android, but it probably doesn’t integrate with iOS nicely. I also think light themes are bad by default so I can’t judge your photo accurately lol.
Here is iOS dark / compact
IMHO, the shadows, padding around cards, corner radiuses, drop down stylings, etc. are all pretty rough. It doesn’t feel as refined as Material You or iOS’s design system.
After driving in Memmy, Mlem, and Wefwef (now Voyager), Liftoff feels kind of janky to me.
Just my 2¢
Just popping in to mention the UI got a pretty big update recently. You might want to take another look, I think its a lot better now.
If you go into settings and turn off card shadows and rounded corners it gets a bit better IMO
Oh god, that’s way better. That stuff should be off by default. That said, I still feel like they need a UI person to contribute, and OP should hit them up.
As someone who does UI for a living, it feels rough to me. I wish I had the time to help out, but I’ve already got a couple other nasty side projects on my plate.
The card shadows are a little much. I forgot those were on my default. @mykl@lemmy.world would you agree?
I don’t use compact so I’ve not seen those before, but I’m sure that’s not what anyone intended!
I’d be interested to see what’s in the video. I think we’re at a good point to spend some time understanding what works on both main target platforms and making the changes to get us there.
Liftoff is better but compared to the greats that existed in the reddit ecosystem these are very crude. The platform just needs time for devs to catch up to the 10+ years they had invested in Reddit development. The dev behind sync for Reddit has been hard at work on an client for Lemmy with as much feature parity as possible.
Memmy on iOS has been great so far.
“Video is not rated. Log in to watch”
Nope.
Can you try again? I think it’s fine now
Works for me without login in
'fraid not. Still requires login :(
Still not working for me without logging in
It works for me.
Keeping a native OS UI design language for an app is very nice. Apollo was a great example of this!
I’d love to see Android’s version of the same thing.
Wow that front page looks like sync 😁
lol, I use basic components from material library so it should be familiar :)))
Great work, but super clickbait title.
lol, my bad, I used to be a content writer so it kinda runs in my blood =))) anw, updated for more accurate title
Wow! Nice one. I think if we all keep contributing Lemmy will be like VLC. Let’s do it !!
I’m putting the final touches on an app using material design. I’ve broken away from cards and haven’t even considered a light mode yet, but I’ve been pretty unhappy with the search/explorer
This just got me unstuck on it, so thanks
Awesome, glad I can help. I also have some design outside of the cards, you can check it out in the Figma link for more inspiration
I don’t know why, but this exchange felt of fucking romantic. Keep up the good work you amazing people!
I think Liftoff would benefit for a Material You UI.
Only reason I’m not using it
Same. One of the reasons I don’t use it. I think a reason they don’t priotise is because it supports both android and iOS. Not all users would see it.
Yeah I get it, although Thunder is available for both platforms as well, and Material You looks awesome.
hey this looks really similar to a proposal that was made on github for jerboa. Jerboa is also really focused on material UI so maybe it would be best to combine efforts and help each other out.
Looking very good. I’m on iOS, but I would definitely use an app that look as good as that, as long as it performed good as well.
Congratulations and keep up the good work.
Hi there, thanks for this. Could you rate the video? It’s asking me to logon without a rating.
Fixed, could you check again
Yes that’s great. I looked at the Figma file but seeing stuff moving around on a screen is very powerful. I think this looks like a huge improvement and it tones down a few of the stronger elements making it pass better as an iOS app. Have you worked in iOS at all?
Stu has already put a mock-up of some of these ideas in place and it’s looking very exciting!
I like the look. One thing I would like to see is integration of the community search tool to make discoverability easier. Something that shows what server each community is on but also will allow you to search across servers in case you don’t know where things are, and a way to view the list of all communities if you want.
Just like wefwef is nice for iOS, this seems nice for android
Wefwef works great on Android. Supposedly it looks like Apollo, but so what?
It very much looks like an iphone app. All the text and the ui elements fit apples theming and looks out of place in android.
Not to say it doesn’t work well or isnt a good app, because it is, but a lot of us are looking for a unified experience.
I’m using thunder, which fits in nicely. Uses Material You theming as well
hell i use wefwef on my linux tablet
It works well even on my linux desktop. But in terms of design fits best into iOS
very cool! we need more ux/ui designers in open source and free software!
