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I've resurrected lemmur, a beautiful flutter app. Coming soon to an instance near you! (bigfoot.ninja)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/android

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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.

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[–] dimspace 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Leap"

Because, that's what lemmings allegedly do, but also encouraging people to take the leap and embrace the fediverse

Leap for Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

that sounds great

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[–] mikestevens 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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? 😁

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did the same thing last week, that's how I got started on this whole thing! Hahaha

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[–] mykl 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] Poiar 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 :)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

No fucking way!!! YES!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If you're game to test while I get the wheels back on we're making progress!

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

Note: significant bug with the comments due to API redesign that happened in the last 4 months.

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[–] peepo 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it open source?

[–] hydroel 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes it is (GPL 2.0)

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[–] dantheclamman 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mlem

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

There's already an iOS app using this name.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You could make THE LEMMY app:

By scraping all communities with the same name hosted in different instances and letting us subscribe to some/all of them all at once.
By scraping kbin magazines too

[–] [email protected] 15 points 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

tentatively under the name "Lem"

How about going one abstraction further and calling it Stanislaw? I'll see myself out (but looking forward to trying the app).

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[–] iturnedintoanewt 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey man, thanks for the hard work! Seems it only works for lemmy.ml? I can't add my account at lemmy.world!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't get Lemmy from the play store. That's not mine. The original devs abandoned the project.

Lemmy.ml is no longer required and will likely be removed as the default for the app.

I've renamed it and here is some info on how you can get the first Alpha release:

https://bigfoot.ninja/post/4042

[–] iturnedintoanewt 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see! Do you plan to publish to F-Droid? By the way, seems the link is dead.

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[–] Cybermass 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A group of lemmings is called a slice, the app could be something like

LemSlice

SliceOLem

Or maybe just Slice

Just some ideas

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[–] DillingerEscPlan 9 points 2 years ago

I'm here for this. Need a decent app. Looking forward to installing and using.

If this is eventually going to serve as a Lemmy and Kbin app, maybe don't tie the name to the former. Not that I've got any suggestions for you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Sounds great. Jerboa is sort of ok, but it is always good to have alternatives.

[–] DARbarian 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think Lemmynade would be a perfect name.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Holy crap that's pretty good. We might have a winner

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[–] morelikepinniped 7 points 2 years ago

This looks great! I never used Slide, I was a JoeyforReddit user, but I'm really excited to see all the different apps in development.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Looks good. Did you get the original author's permission or was it open source?

Also, as a name... how about "Let Me"?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Open source with gnu gpl v2.

That was the first thing I checked! Hahah

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Are you going to put it on GitHub? Obviously you're not required to release code until you release a build into the wild, but just curious if we can see your progress in real time by any chance lol

Unless you hate the name Lemmur I don't know if you have to change it yet either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yeah you can track my progress here: https://github.com/zachatrocity/lemmynade

I'll make a formal GitHub and fdroid release hopefully tomorrow.

Well I know I could keep the name and have a separate bundle ID. But the old app is still on the play store. Figured it'd be easier to rename then deal with the duplicate named app on the store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krawieck.lemmur

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[–] eruchitanda 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Thanks you, that's great :)

Do you mean F-droid repo?

As for suggestion, I noticed that you can't really add a custom Lemmy instance.

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[–] ghariksforge 5 points 2 years ago

is it on FDroid?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks really good! Where will we be able to download it? I wouldn't mind giving it try.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll get it on GitHub release tomorrow! Then fdroid and iOS app store to follow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Probably should also get it on the Google Play Store! F-Droid is a pretty niche market and Android has the widest audience.

I was using this when I first signed up for Lemmy and it definitely felt better than Jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Lemons
Lemonade
Emblem
Problem
Golem

[–] x4740N 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Reminds me of infinity for reddit which I'm going to miss past July 1st

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