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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by brunofin@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

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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[-] d3lta19@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Infinity was the only way I interacted with reddit. If you can get kbin support, I will be all over beta testing this

[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

If it's inspired by Infinity, you should call it Beyond

[-] brunofin@beehaw.org 1 points 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!

[-] 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

[-] JayDurst@beehaw.org 1 points 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 ;)

[-] wasabi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Will it be open source like infinity?

[-] brunofin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I see no reason why not

[-] Lx32@feddit.it 0 points 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.

[-] brunofin@beehaw.org 0 points 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

[-] 7heo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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