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.

  • Mike@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    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
    6·
    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

  • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    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

  • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    4·
    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

  • Lumidaub@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    tentatively under the name “Lem”

    How about going one abstraction further and calling it Stanislaw? I’ll see myself out (but looking forward to trying the app).

    • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOPEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Not gonna lie, I had to Google that one.

      But point taken lol, I’ll come up with something better.

      • BobbyTables@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I absolutely love the idea of a connection to Stanislav Lem. He’s one of the greatest SciFi writers!

        So how about “Stanny”? It sounds similar to Lemmy and tributes Lem.

  • suoko@feddit.itEnglish
    2·
    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
      5·
      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
    2·
    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!

    • Zach @bigfoot.ninjaOP
      3·
      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