Hi everybody, I'm a UI/UX designer and I wanna contribute to the community here with my expertise. Here is a quick prototype for a Android Lemmy app with Material You Design, it's a simple and customizable app. With this app, I also want to improve the experience when exploring different servers.

Obviously, this is just a concept, so if any developer interest, I'm very willing to collaborate with 🫡 . Vice versa, if anyone stucks with designing his/her own Lemmy client, just reach out to me and I will give you a hand.

Here is a quick demo of some basic features: https://vimeo.com/843481714?share=copy

And here is the figma file if you wanna take a look: https://www.figma.com/file/ZBR30l0ZcKuyKMPjeDmvdF/Lemmy-Android-app?type=design&node-id=53526-31054&mode=dev

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[–] pathief@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Personally prefer to read the title before the image. It's one of the reasons I don't use the Connect app

[–] Floppy454@vlemmy.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The connect app now has that as a setting, if that makes a difference for you.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Cool. Thanks

[–] a_m@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Noted. I was also considering where should I put the title as well. This is just a quick prototype to find out whether any dev is interested in collaboration, so just take it with a grain of salt 😉

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

top would be preferable.

often the title is needed in order to understand the picture - or the picture is the "punchline" to a joke set up by the text.

[–] Hawkman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Connect and your can meme the title be before the image in the settings, that's what I did

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks, must be a recent update. I'll check it out!

[–] Godspeed@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I've mostly committed to Connect, and can confirm there's an option near the bottom to select where to put the title in relation to the picture.

[–] rclkrtrzckr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

a bit further down in the settngs

[–] Today@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too. That's what keeps me on jerboa for now.

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[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is something that has been disturbing me with Thunder app, Connect in their latest versions added a switch for this!

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great work, but super clickbait title.

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[–] zachatrocity@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This looks really great! If you're interested in contributing to an app you should check out Liftoff!

We're totally open source and community contribution driven and we're moving fast! But we're lacking designer contributions!

If you're interested check out our open GitHub issues/enhancements:

https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/issues

[–] a_m@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Got that, I'm checking Matrix so we could have a chat

[–] ItWasntMe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I just discovered liftoff last night on the Playstore. Finally really getting into Lemmy now that I have a good app to use.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they're both janky as all heck.

[–] sam@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Liftoff is perfect.

[–] citrusface@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Liftoff is pretty great. Devs keep making improvement every day.

I am still waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out, but Liftoff might convert me.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does liftoff look different on Android? I feel like it’s ugly as sin on iOS.

[–] sam@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I think it looks fine on android, but it probably doesn't integrate with iOS nicely. I also think light themes are bad by default so I can't judge your photo accurately lol.

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[–] zachatrocity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The card shadows are a little much. I forgot those were on my default. @mykl@lemmy.world would you agree?

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[–] Nerdulous@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Liftoff is better but compared to the greats that existed in the reddit ecosystem these are very crude. The platform just needs time for devs to catch up to the 10+ years they had invested in Reddit development. The dev behind sync for Reddit has been hard at work on an client for Lemmy with as much feature parity as possible.

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[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thunder and Connect are better than Jerboa, haven't tried Lemur

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Using thunder now. It's not perfect, but it's the best experience for me that I've found so far.

[–] frnche@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Memmy on iOS has been great so far.

[–] a_m@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm currently using connect for lemmy. It works fine, but I still have to use the web version to jumping between servers, which is why I come up with this idea.

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[–] V4uban@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have a look at https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ or https://lemmy.world/post/465785

[–] Lurker@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I'm really enjoying wefwef. It's smooth and works well. No weirdness or issues on my end.

[–] jcb2016@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow that front page looks like sync 😁

[–] a_m@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

lol, I use basic components from material library so it should be familiar :)))

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Video is not rated. Log in to watch"

Nope.

[–] a_m@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can you try again? I think it's fine now

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

'fraid not. Still requires login :(

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Still not working for me without logging in

[–] peterpan520@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Works for me without login in

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm putting the final touches on an app using material design. I've broken away from cards and haven't even considered a light mode yet, but I've been pretty unhappy with the search/explorer

This just got me unstuck on it, so thanks

[–] souperk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know why, but this exchange felt of fucking romantic. Keep up the good work you amazing people!

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[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think Liftoff would benefit for a Material You UI.

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[–] Quinnel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a fullstack dev building my own app for Lemmy. I'd be interested in opening a dialogue if you're interested. UI/UX is my weak point :P

[–] a_m@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome, I just sent u a message

[–] SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net 5 points 1 year ago

very cool! we need more ux/ui designers in open source and free software!

[–] samokosik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Just like wefwef is nice for iOS, this seems nice for android

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[–] wavymoney@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is beautiful, and a perfect example post you used there. I know it’s not a release but it makes me wish I had an Android phone to test it anyway lol

[–] xan1242@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Keeping a native OS UI design language for an app is very nice. Apollo was a great example of this!

I'd love to see Android's version of the same thing.

[–] landordragen@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Looking very good. I’m on iOS, but I would definitely use an app that look as good as that, as long as it performed good as well.

Congratulations and keep up the good work.

[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I like the look. One thing I would like to see is integration of the community search tool to make discoverability easier. Something that shows what server each community is on but also will allow you to search across servers in case you don't know where things are, and a way to view the list of all communities if you want.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This reminds me a bit of Sync, formally for Reddit. They're bringing it to Lemmy at some point in the future. Love all the new apps coming out for here, great work :)

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