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Developing a new Lemmy mobile client! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After using Apollo for years, yesterday I decided to completely stop using Reddit for obvious reasons.

I found Lemmy to be a very competent alternative, but the only catch is the mobile situation: it seems that there aren't many good mobile clients for Lemmy.

So I decided to take matters into my own hands and develop a new mobile client for Lemmy.

After a couple hours, I have a good looking and working subscription feed; super glad to see that the API is easy to use :)

What do you think about the look of the app? Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I personally don’t like Material design in general, and if I had a choice I’d pick something with Apple’s design principles.

With that said, the more the merrier so I’m definitely rooting for the app. Don’t mean to sound discouraging. It’s just a preference, but I would definitely try it out at least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It looks very good! Although, I am curious how your app and / or mlem is going to approach iPad support. That was the one thing that I always found somewhat disappointing on Apollo and I hope a better option exists for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Great! I look forward to using it and expanding my use of Lemmy and this will help a lot!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Woah… that was fast. You did this in a few hours? That’s impressive. Nice work!

You know mlem is in heavy development and supposed to be released July 1, right? You can install it via TestFlight.

Also for android jerboa is the lemmy client.

https://hakbox.social/comment/26744

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Didnt know about mlem, but it looks good! In the end, more options more better for the end user :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Apple user here! This looks great! What is the minimum iOS version you're building for? I have a ton of devices on iOS 14 and 15 for jailbreaking purposes and would love to use this app on them :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Once you have an alpha or a beta I would love to try it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This looks awesome! Would it be possible for users on different clients to log in as well, i.e. kbin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

have an option not to show the pictures large like that and it looks good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No apple devices here, but still...

AMOLED friendly black theme
easily accessed donation for the instance host and lemmy devs, maybe even include the option to monitor individual user load on the various server instances the user has posted on
integrate, suggest, and/or streamline 3rd party image hosting options. Maybe set a target file size and quality with a jpeg converter to get any images posted as small as useful by default, even prompting a cropping tool initially as a path of least resistance for optimization.
build in a converter for MP4 to GIF to WEBP with a small size and maximum size optimization/compression. Like, for technical utility it can be important to show video, but mp4/gifs are not currently supported but animated webp is and can be uploaded directly/embedded in posts
mod sub activity monitoring separate from other feeds with options to notify by new posts, comments, reports, user, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks nice, but I wonder if the upvote and comment icons aren’t a bit too small/compact for touch.

Also a question: what do you intend to do differently than the Mlem app?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think mainly design, this app will feature Material design, rather than the look of iOS. Going to implement certain features so that it feels right and home in an iPhone.

However if you prefer the regular iOS theme, there should be other alternatives, like mlem.

In the end, it's just personal choice, and having multiple options is great for all of us :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

An iOS app without adhering to iOS design guidelines and looking like android wont be popular with iOS users 😉.

I personally must have iOS design and all bells and whistles. Else it won’t feel at home.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately your effort might be better spent here:

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy

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