Hi all, keeping this post short, I am working on a new Lemmy app for iOS and Android, heavily inspired on the Infinity for Reddit app.
The app is very much still a work in progress, but I’s like to share some screenshots and a few MVP functionalities already implemented:
Already implemented:
- Anonymous browsing;
- Login;
- Multiple accounts support;
- Account switcher;
- Post cards
- Sorting posts by Lemmy’s sorting options (Active/Hot/New/etc…);
- Listing posts by Lemmy’s listing options (Subscribed/Local/All);
- Upvote, downvote (and counters), comment counter, save;
- Mark post as read;
- Infinite post scrolling (keep on scrolling, app loads more posts in the background);
What’s next before I make it available in the app stores (MVP):
- Post view (see post’s comments);
- Add a comment to a post;
- Create a post;
- A sexier selected account card on the sidebar;
What’s still to do before I can call it a beta version:
- Profile view;
- Community view (rules mods other details);
- Search;
- Dark mode;
What’s to come after:
- Custom theming/Material You support;
- Advanced post filters;
- Community groups (Add communities to a group, see posts only from selected group);
- A video player with controls over speed playback and maybe quality if possible;
- Alternative posts view (compact card, list, etc)
- Other cool misc options.
Dreams:
- Kbin and Mastodon accounts support.
Keep an eye for future posts, I may be able to announce the MVP by the end of this week if everything goes well, but I can’t promise anything :)
EDIT:
This post got so much traction than I had predicted. Thank you so much for all your comments and ideas! I tried to reply to as many as I could.
I also collected from this post a bunch of good suggestions from you which for now I am keping track of here: https://brunofinger.notion.site/brunofinger/Beyond-45cabaae7f724cd5ad2b77d902e9a97e
The app name probably will be “Beyond” as suggested by a couple of users here, and really like this idea as it creates a sort of symbolic link to Infinity as the inspiration for my work by the famous “To Infinity and Beyond” phrase :)
Looks Dope. Infinity is my favorite android reddit client
If it’s inspired by Infinity, you should call it Beyond
I m glad you mentioned it! after I posted this on Tuesday night, I came up with the same idea! To Infinity, and Beyond!
this makes too much sense not to
I was 100% for Lemur, but Beyond is an excellent name. It’s slightly grandiose but vague. Like I always thought “Apollo” was a great name. It’s a cool word and it doesn’t really mean anything in the context.
Please, however you name this app, don’t call it “X for Lemmy”. Just call it Beyond. Or just Lemur, or whatever. I hate when all these devs triple the length of their app name by adding “for Reddit” or whatever at the end.
It could have a different name on the app store than the actuall app, ie. on Play Store Infinity is named “Infinity for Reddit”, but when instaled the app is named only “Infinity”, I was considering a similar aproach, what do you thinkl?
Announcing the official community here: !beyond@lemm.ee and also announcing the first open testing for the alpha version is available for Android here: https://lemm.ee/post/688038
Quick update today I worked on the sidebar, I’ve hidden the items buttons that still don’t do anything, added some icons, created a nice card for the logged in account. The only thing I am still not happy with is the contrast of the account name vs the background image, so I will look into something to fix that soon.
I am still not sure where to post this those kind of updates, maybe a community is not such a bad idea but I cannot create communities on beehaw, maybe I will create one on another instance and mod it from this account. In any case, I will post that info here too.
Another update, with basic post and comments view ready, we should be soon approaching an alpha release date so you all can have a look by yourselves :)
can’t wait to try this out, thanks for all your hard work on this!!!
Just another quick update, I got the domain beyond.onl and I’m planning to run a small Lemmy instance there. I probably won’t be allowing account creations but I will be creating some official communities for Beyond announcements there.
The idea is to have a community where you can follow for new post updates about Beyond and comment, suggest features and improvements etc.
I will probably host it somewhere like Azure, I am not sure, as I have no idea of the costs associated with it, so I will be taking it very slowly and see how that will turn out. Maybe at some point I will open it up for new users too, let’s see :)
Not sure if this works Bruno, but here you can create a free server in the cloud:
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
Don’t understand what you need… Have a look
I am running my webserver here for free, works fine !!
Will it be open source like infinity?
I see no reason why not
Love it! Super excited to see your progress when it’s available!
could you please try and port this feature as well? there are Zero third party apps that load new posts on frontpage after refreshing, infinity is the only one which has it, and it works flawlessly. hope we get something similar for lemmy too
I love to call out awesome work in the ecosystem when I see it. If you’re interested in alternative communities to those on Reddit, then go check out @brunofin 's new #lemmy client for Android and iOS that he posted about over on https://beehaw.org/c/programming.
thanks for posting about it :)
Also, am I just missing it or is there no way to simultaneously boost a #fediverse post and add my own text to it on #mastodon?
Hey, what does the boost function do?
@Sophokles @brunofin , to answer my own question … #til boosts without extra comments are a thing for good reasons.
Happy to see some new apps on the horizon! Android user here and happy to beta test when the time arrives.
No name suggestions… and that’s probably for the best ;)
This app looks great! (Lemur is a great name, you should stick with it.)
Are the screenshots from the Android app? It definitely looks like it, but I was wondering if the iOS version would lean towards iOS UI design rather than Google guidelines.
correct the screenshots are from the Android app. I am using React Native to target both platforms with the same code, and for UI lib React Native Paper, which is a Material Design implementation. I am yet to see how it looks like on iOS but I like the idea of the app following the UI patters of the platforms it is running on.
Kid named Bruno Finger:
lol
Loved infinity when I used it. Good luck!
Same here! Today tried to go back to original Reddit app and couldn’t do it. Had to uninstall few seconds later. Wish we get same - if not better - experience like on Infinity.
Does it have a name?
It’s probably gonna be Beyond :)
If you’re interested, I can put this in the stickied thread on !android@lemmy.ml
Thank you but not just yet :)
Infinity was my absolute favorite, I shall watch this app with great interest 😁 lemme (Lemmy?) know if you need any additional testers
Thanks!
