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:

Screenshots

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 :)

EDIT:

This post got so much traction than I had predicted. Thank you so much for all your comments and ideas! I tried to reply to as many as I could.

I also collected from this post a bunch of good suggestions from you which for now I am keping track of here: https://brunofinger.notion.site/brunofinger/Beyond-45cabaae7f724cd5ad2b77d902e9a97e

The app name probably will be “Beyond” as suggested by a couple of users here, and really like this idea as it creates a sort of symbolic link to Infinity as the inspiration for my work by the famous “To Infinity and Beyond” phrase :)

    • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I m glad you mentioned it! after I posted this on Tuesday night, I came up with the same idea! To Infinity, and Beyond!

  • JayDurst@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Happy to see some new apps on the horizon! Android user here and happy to beta test when the time arrives.

    No name suggestions… and that’s probably for the best ;)

  • famskiis@vlemmy.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This app looks great! (Lemur is a great name, you should stick with it.)

    Are the screenshots from the Android app? It definitely looks like it, but I was wondering if the iOS version would lean towards iOS UI design rather than Google guidelines.

    • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      correct the screenshots are from the Android app. I am using React Native to target both platforms with the same code, and for UI lib React Native Paper, which is a Material Design implementation. I am yet to see how it looks like on iOS but I like the idea of the app following the UI patters of the platforms it is running on.

    • Daniel Retana@mastodon.ie
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      1 year ago

      @famskiis @brunofin I also love Lemur as a name.
      Probably if Brunofin has copyright issues due to is a common word, he could also try with Lemour.
      Sounds good and is a “made” word so no copyright issues!

    • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Definitely sounds like a good way to go, I believe I will allow to add multiple anonymous accounts where users can enter only a instance name and no username/password.

  • Lx32@feddit.itEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Love, I use infinity and keep the style for lemmy will be a big upgrade. Also think about make the app FOSS and on FDroid.

    • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      honestly as of now I see no reason why not open sourcing it, I still didn’t upload the code anywhere yet but probably will chose gitlab

      • ZENITHSEEKER@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Brilliant, very much look forward to it. I don’t have much experience with mobile app development but could contribute some translations if you end up needing them.

  • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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 :)

      • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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 :)

    • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      React Native. The screenshot you see is from it running on WSA from Windows 11, it feels much better than the emulator from the Android SDK.