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
    14·
    1 year 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
    12·
    1 year 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? 😁

    • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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

  • mykl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year 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
    6·
    1 year 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 :)

      • Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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.

  • suoko@feddit.itEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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

  • Evelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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!

  • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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.

  • DARbarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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

    • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOP
      6·
      1 year 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

  • Old Man@endofti.meEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

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

    Also, as a name… how about “Let Me”?

      • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • pitninja@lemmy.pit.ninjaEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            I didn’t think to mention this until just now, but you’re probably going to have to do a more significant rework of the app pretty soon to work with Lemmy backend v0.18. You can test it against some public development instances in the short term, but unless the release candidate is held up, you probably have like 1 week before the app at least has issues on most servers (not entirely sure how much of a breaking change it’ll be code-wise).

            • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOPEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Yup, been tracking that in the matrix. Will be curious how long it takes most instances to update once it’s officially released.