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.

  • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    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

  • Mike@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    Haha, how ironic. I downloaded the old Lemmur from F-Droid today, having no idea it had been abandoned. When I couldn’t add lemmy.world, I knew something was up.

    It’s a good looking app, so good on your resurrecting it!

    As for a name… Given it’s a resurrected app, how about Zommur? 😁

  • mykl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    Hey Zack, we should probably talk!

    I follwed the same route but focused on the iOS side and so I have “Limbo” in TestFlight! Lemmur is such a great base isn’t it? It’s such a shame that the original devs moved on.

    Have a look at my take at https://lemmy.world/c/limbo

  • Poiar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    If you don’t go with any of the other people’s suggestions, I’d like to inform you that in Danish, Lem basically means penis :)

  • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Looking great, can’t wait to test it! Nothing against Jerboa for the time being, but alternatives are always welcome. Been testing summit yesterday that someone posted as well, and I think every app has some unique features about it, so let’s see where the journey goes.

    Ideally I’d love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

    As for the name, isn’t Lem a bit short? Not that I dislike it, but in terms of being properly searchable on google and the likes it might be better to go for a longer, unique search string, else it could get a bit cluttered.

    • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Should have a testable android APK on the repo tomorrow and I’ll work on getting the iOS app out for people to sideload.

      Over all it works pretty well, there’s a few bugs but it’s a solid foundation!

      Yeah I suck at names, I’ll keep thinking

    • TurtleTourParty@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Ideally I’d love to have something as close to Reddit Sync as possible :-P

      I have good news for you. Sync for Lemmy is happening!

      [email protected]

      I second Lem being too short unless op plans on doing a lot of SEO or making people search Lem for Lemmy.

    • Whooping_SealEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Is summit worth using over Jerusalem? I currently have Jerboa installed but there’s some things I find clunky about it.

      Edit: I meant Jerboa

        • Whooping_SealEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          My apologies, I meant Jerboa but my phone autocorrected it

          • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            No, in that case summit isn’t worth it just yet, it’s really a very early proof of concept app. I just like the idea that multiple apps are popping up, that was really helpful for reddit apps to adapt quickly.

            Now that ljdawson (dev of Reddit Sync) officially started to work on a Lemmy client over on https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy, I’m seriously just waiting for his initial release. That app was my steady companion for 11+ years, and the first app I ever bought.

  • jcg@halubilo.socialEnglish
    4·
    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.

  • Evelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Holy crap, this reminds me so much of Infinity for Reddit (my favorite reddit client.) If this releases I’d love to try it out!

    • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOP
      7·
      2 years ago

      Yeah it does look similar. I didn’t design the UI up to this point. I’ve justed updated it to support the lemmy backend starting from 0.17.x

      It fairly out of the box material design flutter

  • DARbarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    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

  • suoko@feddit.itEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    You could make THE LEMMY app:

    1. By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
    2. By scraping kbin magazines too
    • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOPEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Yeah I’m working on that separately as an instance utility.

      But Lemmynade (new name) does aggregate multiple instances and user accounts into a single feed which is nice

      • Whooping_SealEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Any idea why a newer project would elect for the GPL 2.0 over the 3.0? I know that the Linux kernel is GPL 2.0 still and I think it had something to do with changes regarding DRM (Tivoization). But I don’t see how that would apply here.