Hi all, keeping this post short, I am working on a new Lemmy app for iOS and Android, heavily inspired on the Infinity for Reddit app.

The app is very much still a work in progress, but I’s like to share some screenshots and a few MVP functionalities already implemented:

Screenshots

Already implemented:

  • Anonymous browsing;
  • Login;
  • Multiple accounts support;
  • Account switcher;
  • Post cards
  • Sorting posts by Lemmy’s sorting options (Active/Hot/New/etc…);
  • Listing posts by Lemmy’s listing options (Subscribed/Local/All);
  • Upvote, downvote (and counters), comment counter, save;
  • Mark post as read;
  • Infinite post scrolling (keep on scrolling, app loads more posts in the background);

What’s next before I make it available in the app stores (MVP):

  • Post view (see post’s comments);
  • Add a comment to a post;
  • Create a post;
  • A sexier selected account card on the sidebar;

What’s still to do before I can call it a beta version:

  • Profile view;
  • Community view (rules mods other details);
  • Search;
  • Dark mode;

What’s to come after:

  • Custom theming/Material You support;
  • Advanced post filters;
  • Community groups (Add communities to a group, see posts only from selected group);
  • A video player with controls over speed playback and maybe quality if possible;
  • Alternative posts view (compact card, list, etc)
  • Other cool misc options.

Dreams:

  • Kbin and Mastodon accounts support.

Keep an eye for future posts, I may be able to announce the MVP by the end of this week if everything goes well, but I can’t promise anything :)

EDIT:

This post got so much traction than I had predicted. Thank you so much for all your comments and ideas! I tried to reply to as many as I could.

I also collected from this post a bunch of good suggestions from you which for now I am keping track of here: https://brunofinger.notion.site/brunofinger/Beyond-45cabaae7f724cd5ad2b77d902e9a97e

The app name probably will be “Beyond” as suggested by a couple of users here, and really like this idea as it creates a sort of symbolic link to Infinity as the inspiration for my work by the famous “To Infinity and Beyond” phrase :)

    • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I m glad you mentioned it! after I posted this on Tuesday night, I came up with the same idea! To Infinity, and Beyond!

      • Steve@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I was 100% for Lemur, but Beyond is an excellent name. It’s slightly grandiose but vague. Like I always thought “Apollo” was a great name. It’s a cool word and it doesn’t really mean anything in the context.

        Please, however you name this app, don’t call it “X for Lemmy”. Just call it Beyond. Or just Lemur, or whatever. I hate when all these devs triple the length of their app name by adding “for Reddit” or whatever at the end.

        • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          It could have a different name on the app store than the actuall app, ie. on Play Store Infinity is named “Infinity for Reddit”, but when instaled the app is named only “Infinity”, I was considering a similar aproach, what do you thinkl?

          • Steve@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            This is cool! Helps a huge amount for search results, but doesn’t look lame on my home screen. Rock on, dude!

  • SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Post cards was the first thing I turned off in RIF. I don’t want a photo gallery, want a concise list of threads and maybe a small thumbnail at best. Thread title, domain of post’s link, how many comments and upvotes and the pertinent things to click, in as efficient a format as possible.

    Do that and you can get like 10 posts per screen would makes browsing and scrolling very efficient.

    Now, if you want to make it god-mode then add tabs at the top for queuing up stuff to peruse in detail.

    • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Good for you, I enjoyed Infinity and am very excited for this client to succeed. Go Bruno Finger go!

    • Bruno Finger@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Honestly I loved the card view because of the gallery, put focus on the post image.

      Having that said, card won’t be the only layout available but it is the first I am working on.

  • Badabinski@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    I’m really glad you’re working on this. @hariette is making Artemis for Lemmy and kbin, and soon the world will have another app for Lemmy. More apps == more better, IMO. Your app is looking great!

  • 34@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    Please start a sub for the app so we can subscribe to follow development and join a beta program when ready.

  • Nyanix@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Infinity was my absolute favorite, I shall watch this app with great interest 😁 lemme (Lemmy?) know if you need any additional testers

  • Lx32@feddit.itEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Love, I use infinity and keep the style for lemmy will be a big upgrade. Also think about make the app FOSS and on FDroid.

  • bric@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    This looks great, I’ll definitely be trying it once it’s out. It seems like you’ve got plenty of things to work on, but if I could suggest one extra thing that jerboa is missing, see if you can add the ability to swipe between posts while you’re in the comments. Sometimes I just want to swipe through every post in my feed instead of picking the posts I wanted to open

  • LeftEndDev@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    My love of Infinity is what pushed me off the Reddit train so I’d be pumped to have a Fedv equivalent!

  • roo@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    In theory, once you’ve connected with Mastodon you could just view hashtags as subscriber communities and any top level toots as posts. Leaving the replies to show as a thread. Then fix it to be seen in reverse if you’re in your Mastodon account.