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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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[–] arcrust@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 😁
[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] thann@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

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 =]

[–] pattern@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Thank God there's a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? "reddit."

[–] Omripresent@leddit.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks good and I was able to get it on pretty quickly. I was about to post this from the app but saw it's missing the web's markdown shortcuts and image upload option.

Also looking at this post the screenshots are cropped and I didn't see a straight forward way of looking at the whole image.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll make a note to add markdown shortcuts and image upload to the next release. I should probably make those cropped images expand out on click.

[–] GreyWizard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the look and layout, but I can't get any threads to load. It just says "No posts"

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I'll take a look! Do you have any filters applied? Is that across all instances?

[–] ledditor@leddit.minnal.icu 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nice job. But not available in my country (Germany). Looks really nice and familiar to reddit apps.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just added Germany to the list of countries! I think it will take Google an hour or so to update.

[–] ledditor@leddit.minnal.icu 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks!! Would be nice if you can setup the f-droid app.

Not available in Switzerland either

[–] AnonLordo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hab sie gerade installiert. Probier's noch einmal ;)

[–] Tywele@dataterm.digital 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looks great from the screenshot!

The Google Play 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

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strange - I'll take a look! I'm testing on a Pixel 6 so I would think it would work.

[–] booklovero@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm on pixel 6 and it doesn't work with logged in aurora store.

Edit: it works now!

[–] babeuh@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Will you be making this open source?

[–] Tywele@dataterm.digital 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I signed into my dataterm.digital account but when I go on profile I see my feddit.de profile even though I didn't login with it.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Ah I must not be filtering the username with the instance so it's grabbing the first username match it sees. I'll fix this in the next release :)

[–] harry315@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn that looks awesome! Did you find any good docs on the API? I only found the lemmy-js-client, which is a library, though. Wanted to do some shenanigans with Python and Lemmy, but there doesn't seem to be too much documentation...

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I had a hard time with the API docs too to be honest. I read through https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/04-api.html first but it was pretty high level. My main reference was the typing on the lemmy-js-client as well. I used the Dart Lemmy API client here https://github.com/LemmurOrg/lemmy_api_client but unfortunately it's not being maintained (and didn't work without modification since the API has changed since then).

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.
  • (possible bug?) The community list on the side menu doesn't show all my subscribed communities.
[–] CreepyRainbow@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Aboyandhistrains@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] DerGreiss@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just downloaded the app. I really like it. please keep up the good work

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[–] gelberhut@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you designed, developed, tested and published it in a less than 10 days? Your first android app? Really?

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I switched over when the subreddits started going private. It's been a lot of long nights haha.

Not my first app :)

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[–] Elegast@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

looks good, been using jerboa for the past week. will check this one out too. cheers!

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you also host the APK or upload it on F-Droid?

[–] NeZha@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@kuro_neko This please, I want it on F-Droid too. Thank you, the client looks amazing.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'll look into uploading the APK and add a reply here when it's ready.

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanks, open source/foss is even better but thanks for at least looking at distributing it on other platforms!

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[–] Pbody@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Will this app be compatible with kbin.social accounts? I've tried to sign in and it's throwing a whole page of an error message.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I will look to see how possible it is, I think the APIs are different which is why it's throwing those errors.

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[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Suggestion: a setting that lets you set default sorting for comments would be great. So if I wanted post comments to be sorted by top by default, I could set that instead of needing to do it manually every time. Been looking everywhere for a Lemmy app that can do this, at least until the functionality is implemented into the site itself.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I'll add default comment sorting in the next release.

[–] DrPhred@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looks good. Now we just need a good iOS app

[–] ledditor@leddit.minnal.icu 1 points 1 year ago

runs very smooth on my 5 year old phone. Some suggestions for improvement

  • With All selected not all feeds were showing up on the sidebar
  • Adding a compact layout for sidebar and comments
[–] Yewb@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

How hard would it be to add a view to make it look more like old.reddit.com?

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