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Looking for a few beta testers for my Lemmy Android Client

Google requires a dozen or so beta testers before you are allowed to launch an app on the Play store publicly. Given that this community lives on Lemmy, and it’s full of Android users, I was hoping I could recruit a few people.

My app, “Blorp”, is already listed on the official Lemmy website for iOS, but Android has been delayed due to this requirement.

Would greatly appreciate your help, and if it turns out you like my app, I’m happy to make changes based on your feedback.

For closed testing, Google requires you join a linked Google Group before downing the app.

Step 1: Join the testing group

🔗 https://groups.google.com/g/blorp-android-app-testers

Step 2: Download the app

📱 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.blorpblorp.app

Thanks in advance!

Edit: there’s also a Lemmy community if you want to stay up to date or ask questions !blorp@lemmy.ml

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  • why wouldn't you <s>make it FOSS and</s> release it through fDroid?

    • https://github.com/christianjuth/blorp

      It's GPL-3.0 licensed, so it is FOSS. They're just trying to get it on the Google Play Store.

      • My time is limited, but I would love to get it everywhere including a Linux desktop app. I’m happy to look into fDroid. It’s really that if I have an hour to spend coding, I have to prioritize the task that will benefit the most users. Right now I’m very deep into solving Lemmy V1 support and PieFed support. That will likely take a couple months.

        Feedback from frequent users makes a big difference. If someone that uses my app every day asks for a feature consistently, it’s much easier for me to justify the time spent working on that feature.

        Also, in addition to FOSS, there is no data collected at all. The only communication the app has is with the lemmy server you select, or the default instance (Lemmy.zip) when you launch the app for the first time. MacOS will also ping GitHub releases for updates.

        • oh wow, the web app looks great. always thought lemmy looked pretty bad from every desktop ui ive found

          • Thank you! That’s is honestly what sent me on this mission. Let me know if you have any feature requests! Either on GitHub, comment, or DM

      • thanks for the link

    • Out of curiosity, what lemmy client did you use to add the strikethough? Or did you hand type it. As far as I know, Lemmy only supports strike throughs using ~~

      Like this

      Asking because I made a conscious decision to not support HTML within markdown, but I’m curious if other clients do. I mostly use the official Lemmy UI and Voyager to compare against.

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