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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My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It’s unusable as it is.
Looks amazing! I’ll try it out!
so far I’m really liking it. I would like alternating backgrounds on comments just to help separate them out a little.
I don’t see the ability to edit my comments. I had to pull up the pwa to edit this one.
Hi, thanks for the feedback and I’m glad you’re liking it! I’ve added some more spacing between comments on the latest release which should help to separate them. Please let me know what you think! Also added the ability to edit comments.
Yeah that’s a lot better. I do think that you should make the names, points, and time a different color to make the poster information more prominent. Also would help it stand out a little better
Can you also host the APK or upload it on F-Droid?
//edit
I ask because im on a de-googled pixel 5 running lineage OS so I cant exactly just go get it off the Play Store.
Yeah I’ll look into uploading the APK and add a reply here when it’s ready.
Thanks, open source/foss is even better but thanks for at least looking at distributing it on other platforms!
I think I will open source it in the future but right now it’s a very messy codebase coming from essentially a long coding binge.
A lot of people think that way but don’t be afraid to post code because it isn’t perfect. Lots of enterprise software looks awful. Also anyone who wants to be an ass about your code for such an early release isn’t worth listening too. Most are just happy to help and can do pull requests to make your project better.
Agreed. I’ve seen some horrors in corporate code bases in my time. Created some, even. 😁
Nothing is showing up in my feed when signed in to lemmy.ml
Also, the Google password manager is trying to input the password into the instance text box when trying to sign in. Pixel 7 Pro.
Hi, this should now be fixed on the latest release (1.0.25). Thank you for your feedback!
Thanks man! It’s working now. Super smooth for the most part. Upvotes/downvotes still take quite a while to register. An Amoled black would be awesome as would a Small Cards view.
Edit: Another suggestion is to add a way to jump to the next parent comment in a post. Looks like Jeroba just added this and I’ve been missing this feature from some of the reddit apps I used to use.
Hi, thanks for the feedback! I’ve added an AMOLED theme on the latest update (1.0.35). A small cards view is a good idea and I’ll take a look at Jeroba’s jump buttons. Cheers!
Thanks!
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 😁
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.
Maybe bug: in list view, the width of post title and content seems to be limited to around 80% of my screen width.
Hi, just wanted to make sure you saw this but that issue is now fixed. Thanks again!
And you designed, developed, tested and published it in a less than 10 days? Your first android app? Really?
I switched over when the subreddits started going private. It’s been a lot of long nights haha.
Not my first app :)
Oook.
There’s no reason to be so critical of OP for this … if anything, it’s impressive, or at least cute. Why you gotta be bringing Reddit negativity over here? )=
The screen shots look good. I’ll download it and try it out. Let me know if you make a community for it so we can give back feedback on there. The more apps the merrier now that Reddit is getting rid of all them!
Thank you, let me know what you think! I made a community here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect
