Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn’t find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Features:

  • Material U
  • Dark and Light themes
  • List view / Card view / Fullwidth view
  • Filter lists for hiding posts
  • Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances
  • Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup
  • Search and community autofill
  • Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @)
  • Saving posts
  • full sort types
  • NSFW view options (hide, blur, show)
  • copy text and url on all posts and comments
  • add comments, replies, and new posts
  • comment replies with line indicators

Here’s other screenshots:

Future plans:

  • Improving the inbox
  • Swipe actions
  • Multi-~~reddit ~~communities

Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I’d love to know your thoughts!

Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

  • arcrust@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    The app looks great! Feels very fluid.

    I have only three requests:

    • make it FOSS in spirit of the fediverse (obviously you don’t have to, that’s your choice)
    • give me a way to download pics from inside the app. I very often download memes and share them in other chats. You’ve got open external, which works, but it’s an extra step. Downloading in app would just be more convenient.
    • lastly, give me a way to buy you a beer 😁
    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hi, thanks for the feedback and I’m glad you’re enjoying it! I’ve added a download button to media views. Open source is on the roadmap as well if there’s enough interest.

  • thann@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I would strongly recommend open-sourcing it! There are several FOSS apps already and it would be hard to compete against them without opening up =]

  • pattern@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Thank God there’s a filter setting 😭😭😭 sorely missed coming from infinity. First thing filtered? “reddit.”

  • Tywele@dataterm.digitalEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Looks great from the screenshot!

    The Google Play doesn’t let me install it though and I can’t find it via the Google Play app

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Strange - I’ll take a look! I’m testing on a Pixel 6 so I would think it would work.

  • WreckingBANG@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    That UI looks really clean. I love it. Is it open source? Not that i dont trust you but i try to not use any closed source apps anymore, i would appreciate it if you would share the link to the source code.

  • Aboyandhistrains@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I love the app! I just wanted to give you some debug info. I can’t log into a second account on my current andoid tablet or andoid 10 phone. The button to do so does nothing.

  • GreyWizard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I love the look and layout, but I can’t get any threads to load. It just says “No posts”

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ll take a look! Do you have any filters applied? Is that across all instances?

      • GreyWizard@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        No filters. Seems to be across all instances as far as I can tell. I’m on a Pixel 5a if that helps.

        • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Lemmy.ml posts should now be loading on the most recent version (1.0.25). Thanks for the feedback!

  • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    My keyboard constantly tries to switch to caps as I type in Connect. I am using Grammarly. It will flicker the upper case layout between each key press. It’s unusable as it is.

  • Omripresent@leddit.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Looks good and I was able to get it on pretty quickly. I was about to post this from the app but saw it’s missing the web’s markdown shortcuts and image upload option.

    Also looking at this post the screenshots are cropped and I didn’t see a straight forward way of looking at the whole image.

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks! I’ll make a note to add markdown shortcuts and image upload to the next release. I should probably make those cropped images expand out on click.

  • Scary le Poo@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    so far I’m really liking it. I would like alternating backgrounds on comments just to help separate them out a little.

    I don’t see the ability to edit my comments. I had to pull up the pwa to edit this one.

    • Kuro@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hi, thanks for the feedback and I’m glad you’re liking it! I’ve added some more spacing between comments on the latest release which should help to separate them. Please let me know what you think! Also added the ability to edit comments.

      • Scary le Poo@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah that’s a lot better. I do think that you should make the names, points, and time a different color to make the poster information more prominent. Also would help it stand out a little better

  • ledditor@leddit.minnal.icuEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    runs very smooth on my 5 year old phone. Some suggestions for improvement

    • With All selected not all feeds were showing up on the sidebar
    • Adding a compact layout for sidebar and comments