Yay! This is hands down the best lemmy app so far.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Thunder App
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An open-source, cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android.
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Thunder might be better now with updates but when I sampled all the apps I settled on Liftoff as the best one.
Thunder is picking up momentum. We're not quite approaching feature parity, but there's more and more progress being shown off in the dev chat.
I think Thunder has the best design of all of the Android apps that I've tried. The only feature that is missing now that I've identified as personally wanting is being able to search Lemmy posts and comments (rather than just communities). I'm cool with being patient as more features are added, because overall, Thunder is so enjoyable to use.
Better search is on my list, so I'll eventually get to that unless someone else on the team does first. Working on sidebars atm.
I agree. Love it and get serious RedReader vibes from it
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I'm @CTalvio
This is how my recent weeks have been:
By far the best Lemmy app. Really reminiscent of Relay for Reddit, which coincidentally was by far the best Reddit app IMHO.
Keep up the awesome work!
Also a former Relay user, I was really bummed it wasn't among the apps making a jump over to Lemmy. A lot less bummed now because I legitimately picked up app development just so I could help turn Thunder into my next Relay. Look forward to doubletap slide to zoom in the image viewer, sliding items away completely to reveal buttons, comment context view when opening a link to a certain one, and more stuff that Relay demonstrated as must have's for me.
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I came from Relay too. Thunder and Jerboa are similar to relay in my opinion. Thunder just needs a few more features it will be perfect.
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Thunder had been my favorite Lemmy app for a while now. I've tried others and some have a lot of potential, but Thunder is the app that does most things the way I like it. Congrats on the launch!
Here I go downloading another Lemmy app!
Let's see if this one beats my current go-to, Liftoff.
I just have them all downloaded and bounce between them when they get a new update lol
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Great work, really thank you guys! I'd been keeping an eye on this app because it looked very promising in beta. It's one of the best Lemmy clients I've ever tried and I love it being open source. I hope I could contribute, but I have a quite limited Flutter knowledge.
You dont have to know code to contribute. Answer questions when you see them, report issues, etc. I am a screen reader user and make it my goal to find anything that makes using a screen reader in the app more difficult and reporting it. I suspect thunder is one of the most accessible lemmy apps because of all my reports and the devs fixing them.
You definitely don’t need Flutter knowledge to help out! Providing general feedback on UI/UX, or ways to improve the overall experience is just as valuable as helping implement the features!
I started out having very limited Flutter knowledge, and have been using this experience to learn about Flutter. That’s the main reason why I even started on this app 😅
Brilliant news. Will it be getting an fdroid release?
Brilliant news. Will it be getting a lemmy version?
(t'was on fdroid the entire time)
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Awesome! Will the beta chanel still be through GitHub or are you also setting up beta testing through play store?
For now, beta/pre-release stuff will be on GitHub until I figure out how to do it through Play Store as well. My thoughts:
GitHub:
- Will always be here for those who don't want to use Google Play Services/TestFlight for preference reasons
Google Play:
- General releases in parity with the general releases on GitHub/TestFlight
- Beta stream for the pre-releases, in parity with pre-releases on GitHub
TestFlight:
- For now, it'll only be for general releases since there's no way to easily create "streams" for people who want to be in the beta stream
- Eventually, if possible, get it on the App Store for general releases, and then TestFlight will be for beta pre-releases
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I can't find it weird, maybe not compatible with my device? I'm on Android 13 lineageOS, nonrooted.
EDIT: I was able to get to it by direct URL but for some reason couldn't find by searching
It should be compatible with Android 13, but it may take some time to propagate through the app store since it was published not too long ago! Does tapping on the direct link take you to a valid page? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hjiangsu.thunder
I had the same issue. It hasn't propagated into the search corpus. The direct link works.
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Looking good, very much reminds me of Relay for Reddit! Hopefully there will be options to hide the top and bottom bars while scrolling in the future :)
For some reason bitwarden will not auto fill for my accounts.
I use BitWarden personally and have not encountered this. I would suggest creating an issue on GitHub so that we can track it down!
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I don't know if this is the right place but the issues I noticed are:
- All posts seem to be blended into each other because of the bad default dark theme
- No way to delete my own comments
- After I deleted my comment from a different lemmy client, it is not reflected here, even if I restart the app
- More precise text size controls needed. The default text size is too small
There are a lots of things that Thunder does perfectly fine. I can't list all those here
You can edit your comment by swiping from left to right on it. Cant delete it yet though
After trying a lot of apps; Thunder is my current go-to, glad to see this has been added to another distribution platform.
I always prefer to use FOSS when available, and Thunder works extremely well, EVEN on my low end phone.
Great work and many thanks!
I’m an iOS only user but I have to say I just love the amount of solid Lemmy apps that we already have available!
Excellent looking app!
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Just installed. Love to have a hide feature that could be implemented with gesture/swiping as well.
Wow this app is amazing!
This one is my app of choice!
What is the difference with Connect? Genuinely just curious.
For one, Connect is not FOSS (as of writing), while Thunder is. But that's a question with a hundred answers. Check it out and find out for yourself.
Excellent news, although the app is kinda broken to me since like the last version I guess.
It sticks within the menus and it is slow on average, I clean installed the PlayStore version to start clean but still have the same experience.
Hmm, could you open up an issue on GitHub regarding this? In general, I think Thunder should be fairly well optimized for most devices
If you could provide some more details about your device and OS version, we might be able to trace down the issue!
Very nice first impression, thank you. Could we get more font size options? I'd like to increase the size even more.
This is really good news! Congratulations, Thunder and Voyager are my two favorite Lemmy apps and it's great to see you get your Google Play offering for your app!
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