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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The app looks great! Feels very fluid.
I have only three requests:
- make it FOSS in spirit of the fediverse (obviously you don’t have to, that’s your choice)
- give me a way to download pics from inside the app. I very often download memes and share them in other chats. You’ve got open external, which works, but it’s an extra step. Downloading in app would just be more convenient.
- lastly, give me a way to buy you a beer 😁
Hi, thanks for the feedback and I’m glad you’re enjoying it! I’ve added a download button to media views. Open source is on the roadmap as well if there’s enough interest.
I would strongly recommend open-sourcing it! There are several FOSS apps already and it would be hard to compete against them without opening up =]
Thank God there’s a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? “reddit.”
Hey, black cat! From the screenshots, your app looks very promising. Would you consider making it FOSS, though? Just asking.
That UI looks really clean. I love it. Is it open source? Not that i dont trust you but i try to not use any closed source apps anymore, i would appreciate it if you would share the link to the source code.
Congrats for the release! I finally have alternative to Jerboa!
Some feedback if you don’t mind:
- Full Height view. It’s like the full width view, but display the image without any cropping.
- Tap and hold to show image in full screen, release to close. Very useful for compact views. Also should works for articles thumbnails.
- Native imgur support. Right now it’s treated as a web page. If it’ll require using paid API, just disregard this until you have some funding.
- Preload images when on wifi (optional setting). Basically preload the next N images in the list so they’ll appear instantly.
- Show full community names and user name. Right now it only show the community name and user name, but not the instance name. This is confusing if you subscribed to multiple communities with the same name from multiple instances. Same for usernames.
- option to toggle denser comments views with minimal whitespace.
These are very good suggestions! would also like for it to show the instance name of a post as well as the hold-to-show-image
just downloaded the app. I really like it. please keep up the good work
Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
Can you also host the APK or upload it on F-Droid?
//edit
I ask because im on a de-googled pixel 5 running lineage OS so I cant exactly just go get it off the Play Store.
@kuro_neko This please, I want it on F-Droid too. Thank you, the client looks amazing.
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. 😁
Will you be making this open source?
Thanks for making this!
My first impressions upon downloading are that I’m glad it exists but I think I’ll stick to Jerboa for the time being. It looks really well made for those who are into the cards display format, however I’m personally not a fan of cards views on apps and I feel the list view isn’t quite there yet.
One interesting quirk I noticed worth noting for the developer, not sure if it’s a bug. I signed in with Urnchos@sh.itjust.works and when I click profile it seems to display my comment history of my Kbin account by the same name. I’m not certain if the profile would display the comments and whatnot of all instances that have that name?
Looks great from the screenshots!
The Google Play link doesn’t let me install it though and I can’t find it via the Google Play app.
Edit: it says that the app is not available for any of my devices. I’m using a Pixel 7
Strange - I’ll take a look! I’m testing on a Pixel 6 so I would think it would work.
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? )=
I love the app! I just wanted to give you some debug info. I can’t log into a second account on my current andoid tablet or andoid 10 phone. The button to do so does nothing.
Hi! could you confirm you’re on the latest version? it should say 1.0.31 under settings
That fixed it! You and your team are doing great work! It is appreciated!
That fixed it! You and your team are working very fast! Keep up the good work! It is appreciated!
That fixed it! You and your team are working very fast! Keep up the good work! It is appreciated!
Wow, impressive work, in such a short time. I really like it.
Thank you!My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It’s unusable as it is.
