Thunder is now on Google Play Store
Thunder is now on Google Play Store
Thunder is an open source, cross-platform Lemmy client
Hey everyone, I just wanted to provide a big announcement that Thunder is now available on Google Play Store!
The direct link to the Google Play Store listing is here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hjiangsu.thunder
As far as general releases go, I'll try to keep all the different versions in sync (GitHub, Google Play, TestFlight) to minimize the amount of confusion.
I would like to give a big thanks to @CTalvio for helping with the graphics and screenshots that you see on the listing page, and others for contributing to the overall project! This would not be possible without all their help. Thunder is a community-driven project, and all your contributions towards the project help shape the way it is. If you are interested in contributing to Thunder in any way, feel free to reach out!
If you would like to join in on the conversation for Thunder, we have a Matrix page here: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org
If you would like to check out the GitHub page, it is linked here: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
Yay! This is hands down the best lemmy app so far.
I agree. Love it and get serious RedReader vibes from it
I mean... It's like the second app for android, I think? Competition is not that fierce.
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I'm @CTalvio
This is how my recent weeks have been:
By far the best Lemmy app. Really reminiscent of Relay for Reddit, which coincidentally was by far the best Reddit app IMHO.
Keep up the awesome work!
Also a former Relay user, I was really bummed it wasn't among the apps making a jump over to Lemmy. A lot less bummed now because I legitimately picked up app development just so I could help turn Thunder into my next Relay. Look forward to doubletap slide to zoom in the image viewer, sliding items away completely to reveal buttons, comment context view when opening a link to a certain one, and more stuff that Relay demonstrated as must have's for me.
I came from Relay too. Thunder and Jerboa are similar to relay in my opinion. Thunder just needs a few more features it will be perfect.
Great work, really thank you guys! I'd been keeping an eye on this app because it looked very promising in beta. It's one of the best Lemmy clients I've ever tried and I love it being open source. I hope I could contribute, but I have a quite limited Flutter knowledge.
You dont have to know code to contribute. Answer questions when you see them, report issues, etc. I am a screen reader user and make it my goal to find anything that makes using a screen reader in the app more difficult and reporting it. I suspect thunder is one of the most accessible lemmy apps because of all my reports and the devs fixing them.
You definitely don’t need Flutter knowledge to help out! Providing general feedback on UI/UX, or ways to improve the overall experience is just as valuable as helping implement the features!
I started out having very limited Flutter knowledge, and have been using this experience to learn about Flutter. That’s the main reason why I even started on this app 😅
Thunder had been my favorite Lemmy app for a while now. I've tried others and some have a lot of potential, but Thunder is the app that does most things the way I like it. Congrats on the launch!
Here I go downloading another Lemmy app!
Let's see if this one beats my current go-to, Liftoff.
I just have them all downloaded and bounce between them when they get a new update lol
I bounce between my several installed Lemmy apps whenever one of them locks up :)
For some reason bitwarden will not auto fill for my accounts.
I use BitWarden personally and have not encountered this. I would suggest creating an issue on GitHub so that we can track it down!
Keepassdx is the same way
It's a bit weird. Try backing out after unlocking instead of picking an account, and then auto-fill from the keyboard.
This is what I eventually got to for it to fill.
Awesome! Will the beta chanel still be through GitHub or are you also setting up beta testing through play store?
For now, beta/pre-release stuff will be on GitHub until I figure out how to do it through Play Store as well. My thoughts:
GitHub:
- Will always be here for those who don't want to use Google Play Services/TestFlight for preference reasons
Google Play:
- General releases in parity with the general releases on GitHub/TestFlight
- Beta stream for the pre-releases, in parity with pre-releases on GitHub
TestFlight:
- For now, it'll only be for general releases since there's no way to easily create "streams" for people who want to be in the beta stream
- Eventually, if possible, get it on the App Store for general releases, and then TestFlight will be for beta pre-releases
Congrats! It's been fun seeing how fast this app has progressed over the past month. It's made my transition from Reddit seamless. Thanks for doing what you do.
I can't find it weird, maybe not compatible with my device? I'm on Android 13 lineageOS, nonrooted.
EDIT: I was able to get to it by direct URL but for some reason couldn't find by searching
It should be compatible with Android 13, but it may take some time to propagate through the app store since it was published not too long ago! Does tapping on the direct link take you to a valid page? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hjiangsu.thunder
I had the same issue. It hasn't propagated into the search corpus. The direct link works.
You have to restart your device to get the Play Store to seed properly. Otherwise it can take a week+
Looking good, very much reminds me of Relay for Reddit! Hopefully there will be options to hide the top and bottom bars while scrolling in the future :)
On the way: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/257
After trying a lot of apps; Thunder is my current go-to, glad to see this has been added to another distribution platform.
I always prefer to use FOSS when available, and Thunder works extremely well, EVEN on my low end phone.
Great work and many thanks!
Wow this app is amazing!
Just installed. Love to have a hide feature that could be implemented with gesture/swiping as well.
I’m an iOS only user but I have to say I just love the amount of solid Lemmy apps that we already have available!
Excellent looking app!
Thunder is on testflight.
@darklightxi is an iOS user himself.
What is the difference with Connect? Genuinely just curious.
For one, Connect is not FOSS (as of writing), while Thunder is. But that's a question with a hundred answers. Check it out and find out for yourself.
Great work!
Very nice first impression, thank you. Could we get more font size options? I'd like to increase the size even more.
This is really good news! Congratulations, Thunder and Voyager are my two favorite Lemmy apps and it's great to see you get your Google Play offering for your app!
This one is my app of choice!
Excellent news, although the app is kinda broken to me since like the last version I guess.
It sticks within the menus and it is slow on average, I clean installed the PlayStore version to start clean but still have the same experience.
Hmm, could you open up an issue on GitHub regarding this? In general, I think Thunder should be fairly well optimized for most devices
If you could provide some more details about your device and OS version, we might be able to trace down the issue!
Is there a reason why in so many apps (this was the case on many Reddit apps as well) the thumbnails never fill out the entire actual available space in compact mode? Why do they have to be so extra tiny when there's so much empty space left?
This and Connect seems to be the best ones currently for Android from the limited amount of time I've been using them...
At first glance, the design overall is more Material You in Thunder, however it lacks support of high refresh rate
Congrats on the Play Store release! Thunder is a fantastic Lemmy app, and is progressing along blazingly fast!
I like it! Just needs, mark read after scrolled past a post.
This and a FAB or a quick way to hide read posts.
It's not showing up on the Play Store when I search for "lemmy", "thunder", "thunder lemmy", or even "thunder for lemmy."
I wonder if there's some metadata you can add to help with search visibility? Or does it just take time for their search to index the app?
I think it just takes some time to index the app - I think I’ve added most of the metadata needed, but I’ll double check!
I am trying to find it on Google Play, and still can't find it. Not sure if it is because of location restrictions? I am using a Pixel 6, using a VPN as I am on assignment in China (behind the Great Firewall).
Hopefully ios will get a final release soon too. I love how quick Thunder is on my iPhone utilizing 120hz.
If I originally downloaded and installed from GitHub, do I need to install the Google Play instance for Thunder to automatically update?
You would have to uninstall and reinstall it if you want to switch between the GitHub and Play Store versions!
Thank you! I will do that, only because I like the automatic updates vs pulling it from GitHub for each new version
Is there a difference between the two?
The store appears simpler than manually finding, downloading and installing from gut.
There shouldn’t be any functional difference between the two! The only thing right now is that pre-releases/nightly builds are only available through GitHub
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I think this is the best Lemmy client on Android so far, but the font kinda throws me away. I wish I could have the OS font instead of a different one.