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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 :)

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[โ€“] chloyster@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Always happy to see more apps pop up ๐Ÿ™ the more the merrier!

[โ€“] roo@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In theory, once you've connected with Mastodon you could just view hashtags as subscriber communities and any top level toots as posts. Leaving the replies to show as a thread. Then fix it to be seen in reverse if you're in your Mastodon account.

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[โ€“] Lx32@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[โ€“] brunofin@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you all for all your comments and suggestions. I'll go through them and try to answer as much as I can, I am generally quite busy on Tuesdays so I'll probably be able to do it later at night today. In any case I am happy with the amount of support!

[โ€“] jnovinger@mastodon.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love to call out awesome work in the ecosystem when I see it. If you're interested in alternative communities to those on Reddit, then go check out @brunofin 's new #lemmy client for Android and iOS that he posted about over on https://beehaw.org/c/programming.

https://beehaw.org/post/647773

[โ€“] brunofin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

thanks for posting about it :)

[โ€“] jnovinger@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, am I just missing it or is there no way to simultaneously boost a #fediverse post and add my own text to it on #mastodon?

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[โ€“] DannyBoy@mastodon.ie 3 points 1 year ago

@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.

[โ€“] reric88@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is awesome. What are you coding it with?

[โ€“] brunofin@beehaw.org 1 points 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.

could you please try and port this feature as well? there are Zero third party apps that load new posts on frontpage after refreshing, infinity is the only one which has it, and it works flawlessly. hope we get something similar for lemmy too

[โ€“] nightynight@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Suggestions: ability to set instance base of anonymous account.

[โ€“] brunofin@beehaw.org 2 points 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.

[โ€“] fullstopslash@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

I'm super excited to see where this goes!

[โ€“] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] meruem@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Looks Dope. Infinity is my favorite android reddit client

[โ€“] ChildEater@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone that was a die hard infinite fan.

Thank you.

[โ€“] brunofin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

you're welcome :)

[โ€“] Chickerino@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nice, is there any chance this will be uploaded onto f-droid?

[โ€“] brunofin@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I can definitely look into it

[โ€“] 7tevoffun@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Love it! Super excited to see your progress when it's available!

[โ€“] DannyBoy@mastodon.ie 1 points 1 year ago

@brunofin Looks like there's an issue. Someone made an app called Lemur before you on F-droid.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.krawieck.lemmur/

[โ€“] brunofin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Announcing the official community here: !beyond@lemm.ee and also announcing the first open testing for the alpha version is available for Android here: https://lemm.ee/post/688038

[โ€“] _anarchism_@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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!

Kid named Bruno Finger:

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