Hello! I recently just released a Lemmy reader app for open beta. I’ve been working on the app since the black out about a week ago.
The app is will very much a work in progress however the core reader functionality should be working. I will continue to work on the app and estimate it will likely like a month before all core features will be implemented.
That being said, I’ve been having a lot of trouble browsing Lemmy on web and I still think the app is an upgrade over the raw web experience.
If anyone is interested please give the app a try and let me know what you think!
Here’s a quick demo as well: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MMpMHwzTuII
Update
I started a community at https://lemmy.world/c/summit. I will try to post frequent updates there.
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Is it on F-droid?
I second this, too. I always prefer Open Source apps.
I second this. Will it be open source in the future?
Unfortunately it is unlikely that I will open source this project but we shall see. I respect the open source community, I just historically have enjoyed working close source more.
how can one enjoy working close source? You are welcome to keep your devlopment private, rather than putting it on an open source development protal like GitHub, and just release it under the GPL so the rest of us can learn from your work, without you having to put up with annoying “developers” on the internet.
how can one enjoy working close source?
Are you really asking how one could enjoy creating an app A) without the general public nitpicking at how and why you’re doing it and B) reserving the ability to make some money off the app?
I think maybe you misunderstand how Libre Software works. Nobody wants to take away control from the author of forbid them from making money. We just want to have control over our devices and the software that runs on them. We want to be able to see what it does and that it doesn’t have any malicious functionality. Lemmy itself is Libre Software and all software should be like this.
That is unfortunate, true.
So you don’t care about your users then. You don’t want them to be able to see what you app does on their device and be able to control it.
Is it on fdroid and is it foss? I have no access to google play or any other google service by choice and i only use foss apps whenever possible.
Second this! After everything we’ve been through with Reddit and Twitter, a lot of users are wary of closed-source/closed-data apps and services. Open source values are what brought us to Lemmy in the first place! An open source app is in keeping with that.
May I ask why you don’t use any of those?
Because google exerts centralizing control over things. Where i live here in the US if you are not on the play store you may as well not exist. I am led to understand that in much of the eastern world such as china having multiple app stores and such is quite common. I personally choose not to use services from these large companies firstly to limit their abuse of my data, and secondly because most of these companies are american and must bow the knee to the american governmyth to continue to exist. The internet was made to not have a central point of failure, yet what would happen if Google, AWS, and Microsoft all just vanished? Complete chaos would happen over much of the internet and the largest impact would be to western companies.
That makes sense. Can you post close sourced apps on fdroid? If so I can definitely post the app there. I just don’t want to make the open source decision rn.
No, fdroid is only for free and open source apps.
I see. Over here in Europe we use multiple stores too. As for the data collection, I personally don’t really care much, I’m not a criminal nor am I an important individual, so they don’t really care about me to begin with.
And yea, the internet would be quite fun if they all suddenly died
Oh they absolutely do care, you’re exactly who they want the data from. The “average person” is a goldmine for data collection. They profit massively from your existence and you should definitely care at least a little about that.
Eh, I don’t see how it affects me as a person. Like, I wouldn’t even care if they knew when I took a shit and if they measured it even.
I fail to see how it could affect my life so to say.
That’s sad. You should have higher standards man. The world would be much better if we all did.
I just enjoy the easy things lately, Google does make a lot of things easier. I did however remove everything Facebook related
This will be proprietary. We need to support Libre Software instead. For example Jerboa app.
Hell yeah man, you cranked that out so quick, I don’t know what language you’re writing it in, but let me know if you want some help with any features, I’d love to pitch in!
I’m a mid level dev
The work is pretty manageable at the moment so I should be ok. Thank you for the offer!
Getting some RiF vibes, and that’s such a refreshing feeling in a era of bloated corporate apps.
I like it a lot so far.
Do you have a public git for this?
The author said in another comment that it will be proprietary.
Aw 😥 I would have liked to contribute to it.
You might wanna change that developer name.
Love how smooth this is compares to jerboa
Nice progress so far, the UI looks clean and easy to use. Though the name Reader is a little confusing to me - is it only for viewing / reading posts, or will you also be able to create new ones and comment on them?
tl;dr is everything is WIP. The goal is that you will be able to do everything and more that you can from the website within the app. I’ll make a post about the current priority list on https://lemmy.world/c/summit later today.
Shows promise. Two recommendations:
Use or have an option for Android 12’s “Material You” colour scheme
Open source it
Nice and clean UI, I like it! Still missing quite a few functions (unless I’m blind) though.
Can I currently only browse ‘all’, or ‘local’ for lemmy.ml, beehaw.org and lemmy.world? Or is there a way to switch to subscribed or local for other instances that I just didn’t find?
Nice app but this icon will make your app 100% better
Pretty nice app!
What’s the “Goto” thing? “Enter reddit link”?
Also is there a way to view my subbed communities as a feed? And where is the list of communities in my sidebar pulled from?
Gave it a spin. Looking good so far. And yeah, there is definitely a voting bug.
Looks great! This’ll be fun to watch come together, good work!
Thank you!
This is excellent. I started work on an android app cause it seemed like nobody was doing anything. This is already looking like i should have just been patient.
Its so much nicer to use than jerboa, i just hope its feature par with jerboa soon so i can hop ship
Edit: please also consider uploading to FDroid?
I started work on an android app cause it seemed like nobody was doing anything.
Have you heard about Jerboa?
Using it now. Fair to say its pretty bad
Agreed. Please continue yours friend, if there were 20 good apps right now then that would be one thing, but there are zero.
Posting from the kbin web UI
What’s wrong with the app? It just works.
Damn mate, this is pretty substantial already. Well done!
Nice app. Feels a lot better than jerboa already, even if it’s just in early access. Have high hopes for this. Keep it up!
