Hey guys, a week ago I started working on a lemmy app like many others as an excuse to learn flutter. Along the way I found an old app that was abandoned but very well built.
After a couple of days I was able to get things running and semi-useable again. Including posting this post from the app! The main effort being updating to 0.17.x.
Here’s some screenshots:
I’ll be renaming the app (so I can republish it), tentatively under the name “Lem”… but really open to ideas here.
If you don’t go with any of the other people’s suggestions, I’d like to inform you that in Danish, Lem basically means penis :)
Holy crap, this reminds me so much of Infinity for Reddit (my favorite reddit client.) If this releases I’d love to try it out!
If you’re game to test while I get the wheels back on we’re making progress!
https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042
Note: significant bug with the comments due to API redesign that happened in the last 4 months.
Removed by mod
Shout out to https://kbin.social/u/Gamers_Mate for the name suggestion!
Hey Zack, we should probably talk!
I follwed the same route but focused on the iOS side and so I have “Limbo” in TestFlight! Lemmur is such a great base isn’t it? It’s such a shame that the original devs moved on.
Have a look at my take at https://lemmy.world/c/limbo
Woah! Yeah we should talk!
Can’t believe they abandoned it.
Matrix: @zachatrocity:matrix.org
Here is my latest write up on progress and alpha re-release for Android:
Haha, how ironic. I downloaded the old Lemmur from F-Droid today, having no idea it had been abandoned. When I couldn’t add lemmy.world, I knew something was up.
It’s a good looking app, so good on your resurrecting it!
As for a name… Given it’s a resurrected app, how about Zommur? 😁
Reminds me of infinity for reddit which I’m going to miss past July 1st
There’s a workaround floating over on Reddit. You can use infinity after July 1st if you use your own perosnal api key. A guy has a one click script for it
If you don’t mind I’d like a link for that please
Hey man, thanks for the hard work! Seems it only works for lemmy.ml? I can’t add my account at lemmy.world!
This, please.
Don’t get Lemmy from the play store. That’s not mine. The original devs abandoned the project.
Lemmy.ml is no longer required and will likely be removed as the default for the app.
I’ve renamed it and here is some info on how you can get the first Alpha release:
You could make THE LEMMY app:
- By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
- By scraping kbin magazines too
Yeah I’m working on that separately as an instance utility.
But Lemmynade (new name) does aggregate multiple instances and user accounts into a single feed which is nice
“Leap”
Because, that’s what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse
Leap for Lemmy
Damn this Is pretty . Thanks so much for this!
Looks good. Did you get the original author’s permission or was it open source?
Also, as a name… how about “Let Me”?
Open source with gnu gpl v2.
That was the first thing I checked! Hahah
Are you going to put it on GitHub? Obviously you’re not required to release code until you release a build into the wild, but just curious if we can see your progress in real time by any chance lol
Unless you hate the name Lemmur I don’t know if you have to change it yet either.
Yeah you can track my progress here: https://github.com/zachatrocity/lemmynade
I’ll make a formal GitHub and fdroid release hopefully tomorrow.
Well I know I could keep the name and have a separate bundle ID. But the old app is still on the play store. Figured it’d be easier to rename then deal with the duplicate named app on the store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krawieck.lemmur
I didn’t think to mention this until just now, but you’re probably going to have to do a more significant rework of the app pretty soon to work with Lemmy backend v0.18. You can test it against some public development instances in the short term, but unless the release candidate is held up, you probably have like 1 week before the app at least has issues on most servers (not entirely sure how much of a breaking change it’ll be code-wise).
Yup, been tracking that in the matrix. Will be curious how long it takes most instances to update once it’s officially released.
Honestly, I think Lem is too similar to Mlem and Memmy and whatnot. I’d go with something Fed- or Thread- or Verse-related. Like Threader (could style it differently) or something
I think Lemmynade would be a perfect name.
I second this
This looks so much better than Jerboa for Lemmy. Can’t wait for the release
@zach IDK why, but this app gives me some Infinity for Reddit vibes.
Probably is the UI. Those upvote and downvote buttons.This looks great! I never used Slide, I was a JoeyforReddit user, but I’m really excited to see all the different apps in development.
