I've resurrected lemmur, a beautiful flutter app. Coming soon to an instance near you!

Zach @bigfoot.ninja to Android@lemmy.world – 60 points –
bigfoot.ninja

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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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? 😁

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

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

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

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

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 :)

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.

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

1 more...

"Leap"

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

Leap for Lemmy

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

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

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

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

LemSlice

SliceOLem

Or maybe just Slice

Just some ideas

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.

Is it open source?

Yes it is (GPL 2.0)

Any idea why a newer project would elect for the GPL 2.0 over the 3.0? I know that the Linux kernel is GPL 2.0 still and I think it had something to do with changes regarding DRM (Tivoization). But I don't see how that would apply here.

Reminds me of infinity for reddit which I'm going to miss past July 1st

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.

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).

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

Looks good. Did you get the original author's permission or was it open source?

Also, as a name... how about "Let Me"?

Open source with gnu gpl v2.

That was the first thing I checked! Hahah

Are you going to put it on GitHub? Obviously you're not required to release code until you release a build into the wild, but just curious if we can see your progress in real time by any chance lol

Unless you hate the name Lemmur I don't know if you have to change it yet either.

Yeah you can track my progress here: https://github.com/zachatrocity/lem

I'll make a formal GitHub and fdroid release hopefully tomorrow.

Well I know I could keep the name and have a separate bundle ID. But the old app is still on the play store. Figured it'd be easier to rename then deal with the duplicate named app on the store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krawieck.lemmur

I didn't think to mention this until just now, but you're probably going to have to do a more significant rework of the app pretty soon to work with Lemmy backend v0.18. You can test it against some public development instances in the short term, but unless the release candidate is held up, you probably have like 1 week before the app at least has issues on most servers (not entirely sure how much of a breaking change it'll be code-wise).

Yup, been tracking that in the matrix. Will be curious how long it takes most instances to update once it's officially released.

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

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

Don't get Lemmy from the play store. That's not mine. The original devs abandoned the project.

Lemmy.ml is no longer required and will likely be removed as the default for the app.

I've renamed it and here is some info on how you can get the first Alpha release:

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

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.

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

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

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.

Holy crap, this reminds me so much of Infinity for Reddit (my favorite reddit client.) If this releases I'd love to try it out!

If you're game to test while I get the wheels back on we're making progress!

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

Note: significant bug with the comments due to API redesign that happened in the last 4 months.

I've downloaded obtanium to prepare. It seems I can't actually add your repo until you make a release though.

I'm not a big fan of the rounded corners. Will there be a way to make them just rectangles?