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 :)
Awesome! Good luck in your project!
As someone that was a die hard infinite fan.
Thank you.
you’re welcome :)
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?
The merrier the better.
This looks great, I’ll definitely be trying it once it’s out. It seems like you’ve got plenty of things to work on, but if I could suggest one extra thing that jerboa is missing, see if you can add the ability to swipe between posts while you’re in the comments. Sometimes I just want to swipe through every post in my feed instead of picking the posts I wanted to open
noted!
Infinity was my absolute favorite, I shall watch this app with great interest 😁 lemme (Lemmy?) know if you need any additional testers
Glad to hear it! If possible, I’d like to see any design elements that can be borrowed from BaconReader, like swiping to show upvote/downvote buttons.
thank you!!! i loved the infinity app and heard about the reddit protests just as i finished setting my custom theme, so this is really great to see. i wish you all the success!
Very excited to see this! Any place/site we can follow progress and maybe get access to a TestFlight link once available?
Same, would love to test for Android
Looks Dope. Infinity is my favorite android reddit client
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 !!
@brunofin As a huge fan of Infinity that got his heart broken when the developer announced that it doesn’t gonna get any Lemmy/Kbin support.
I hope you succeed! That app looks incredible!Please, I want an AMOLED dark mode (pure black).
When you released a test on Android, please send me a link to beta test it.noted!
Infinity was the only way I interacted with reddit. If you can get kbin support, I will be all over beta testing this
Looks awesome
thanks you :)
Looks good. I can’t wait to try it out. I’m liking Jerboa so far, but having more apps competing to be the best would be great.
