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.

  • TurtleTourPartyEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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?

  • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    “Leap”

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

    Leap for Lemmy

  • Lumidaub@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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).

    • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Not gonna lie, I had to Google that one.

      But point taken lol, I’ll come up with something better.

      • BobbyTables@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I absolutely love the idea of a connection to Stanislav Lem. He’s one of the greatest SciFi writers!

        So how about “Stanny”? It sounds similar to Lemmy and tributes Lem.

      • Lumidaub@feddit.deEnglish
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        2 years ago

        There really wasn’t a “point”, I just thought it was funny :) You call your app whatever the fudge you like, as long as it works.

  • morelikepinniped@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • DillingerEscPlan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m here for this. Need a decent app. Looking forward to installing and using.

    If this is eventually going to serve as a Lemmy and Kbin app, maybe don’t tie the name to the former. Not that I’ve got any suggestions for you.

  • Cybermass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

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

    LemSlice

    SliceOLem

    Or maybe just Slice

    Just some ideas

  • jcg@halubilo.socialEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Sweet I’m gonna use this. I always thought it kinda wild that people don’t write readers for this kind of website in RN or Flutter, considering you don’t need any extra native functionality at all. Would love to contribute too.

  • Old Man@endofti.meEnglish
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    2 years ago

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

    Also, as a name… how about “Let Me”?

      • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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.

          • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
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            2 years ago

            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).

            • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOPEnglish
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              2 years ago

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

  • DARbarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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