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submitted 1 year ago by zach@bigfoot.ninja to c/android@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] mikestevens@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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? 😁

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 1 points 1 year ago

I did the same thing last week, that's how I got started on this whole thing! Hahaha

[-] dimspace@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

"Leap"

Because, that's what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse

Leap for Lemmy

[-] theory@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I like this best

[-] CompadredeOgum@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

that sounds great

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could make THE LEMMY app:

  1. By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
  2. By scraping kbin magazines too
[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] mykl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] peepo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] hydroel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] DARbarian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think Lemmynade would be a perfect name.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

tentatively under the name "Lem"

How about going one abstraction further and calling it Stanislaw? I'll see myself out (but looking forward to trying the app).

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[-] Poiar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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 :)

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[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 2 points 1 year ago

Looking great, can't wait to test it! Nothing against Jerboa for the time being, but alternatives are always welcome. Been testing summit yesterday that someone posted as well, and I think every app has some unique features about it, so let's see where the journey goes.

Ideally I'd love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

As for the name, isn't Lem a bit short? Not that I dislike it, but in terms of being properly searchable on google and the likes it might be better to go for a longer, unique search string, else it could get a bit cluttered.

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 2 points 1 year ago

Should have a testable android APK on the repo tomorrow and I'll work on getting the iOS app out for people to sideload.

Over all it works pretty well, there's a few bugs but it's a solid foundation!

Yeah I suck at names, I'll keep thinking

[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds awesome! Do you have a link to the repo so I can follow you there?

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah you can track progress here:

https://github.com/zachatrocity/lem

I'll make a more formal GitHub release hopefully tomorrow!

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ideally I'd love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

I have good news for you. Sync for Lemmy is happening!

!SyncForLemmy@lemmy.world

I second Lem being too short unless op plans on doing a lot of SEO or making people search Lem for Lemmy.

[-] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 3 points 1 year ago

No fucking way!!! YES!

[-] quortez@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's looking great man, keep up the good work

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hey man, thanks for the hard work! Seems it only works for lemmy.ml? I can't add my account at lemmy.world!

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[-] Cybermass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Man this would be tits, I'm using jerboa right now but the app has a bunch of UI issues where it just feels kinda clunky, I don't mind it looking visually dated (this does look better though) but it's more about functionality to me, I'd be interested in trying a different app.

[-] DannyBoy@mastodon.ie 1 points 1 year ago

@zach IDK why, but this app gives me some Infinity for Reddit vibes.
Probably is the UI. Those upvote and downvote buttons.

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah it does look similar. I didn't design the UI up to this point. I've justed updated it to support the lemmy backend starting from 0.17.x

It fairly out of the box material design flutter

[-] Cybermass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A group of lemmings is called a slice, the app could be something like

LemSlice

SliceOLem

Or maybe just Slice

Just some ideas

[-] ElanoidesWahl@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Looks really good! Where will we be able to download it? I wouldn't mind giving it try.

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 1 points 1 year ago

I'll get it on GitHub release tomorrow! Then fdroid and iOS app store to follow.

[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably should also get it on the Google Play Store! F-Droid is a pretty niche market and Android has the widest audience.

I was using this when I first signed up for Lemmy and it definitely felt better than Jerboa.

[-] Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sweeeet, lookin' forward to testing it out

[-] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks you, that's great :)

Do you mean F-droid repo?

As for suggestion, I noticed that you can't really add a custom Lemmy instance.

[-] zach@bigfoot.ninja 2 points 1 year ago

You can, it's on the settings:

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[-] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds great. Jerboa is sort of ok, but it is always good to have alternatives.

[-] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, I used to use Lemmur when I first joined Lemmy. Nice to see it revived.

[-] Grrbrr@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago
  • Lemons
  • Lemonade
  • Emblem
  • Problem
  • Golem
[-] morelikepinniped@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you! I used to use it back before I switched to reddit

Also be careful posting anything mentioning piracy because Lemmy is a easy target for lawsuites

[-] justabrownie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This looks so much better than Jerboa for Lemmy. Can't wait for the release

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