I've resurrected lemmur, a beautiful flutter app. Coming soon to an instance near you!
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.
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? 😁
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Yeah but it doesn't let you put whatever you want , or perhaps it fails when it detects a new instance version. I tried a few instances I have accounts on and none were working 😔
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.
Man this would be tits, I'm using jerboa right now but the app has a bunch of UI issues where it just feels kinda clunky, I don't mind it looking visually dated (this does look better though) but it's more about functionality to me, I'd be interested in trying a different app.