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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 :)

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[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

This sounds and looks really cool, looking forward to seeing its development

[–] ChildEater@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone that was a die hard infinite fan.

Thank you.

[–] brunofin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

you're welcome :)

[–] gophergun@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Glad to hear it! If possible, I'd like to see any design elements that can be borrowed from BaconReader, like swiping to show upvote/downvote buttons.

[–] ventusx@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Looks great! good luck op

[–] _comfortablyAverage_@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

could you please try and port this feature as well? there are Zero third party apps that load new posts on frontpage after refreshing, infinity is the only one which has it, and it works flawlessly. hope we get something similar for lemmy too

[–] nightynight@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Suggestions: ability to set instance base of anonymous account.

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[–] Steve@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you addressed this in the post and I suck and missed it, sorry! But I’d love to test your app out on iOS when available. Thank you :)

[–] WheresYourShoe@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Same, except Android here.

[–] roo@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] Chickerino@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nice, is there any chance this will be uploaded onto f-droid?

[–] brunofin@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I can definitely look into it

[–] reric88@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is awesome. What are you coding it with?

[–] brunofin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

React Native. The screenshot you see is from it running on WSA from Windows 11, it feels much better than the emulator from the Android SDK.

[–] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] _anarchism_@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

thank you!!! i loved the infinity app and heard about the reddit protests just as i finished setting my custom theme, so this is really great to see. i wish you all the success!

[–] SwellowTheSun@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Kid named Bruno Finger:

[–] meruem@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Looks Dope. Infinity is my favorite android reddit client

[–] brunofin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you all for all your comments and suggestions. I'll go through them and try to answer as much as I can, I am generally quite busy on Tuesdays so I'll probably be able to do it later at night today. In any case I am happy with the amount of support!

[–] brunofin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quick update today I worked on the sidebar, I've hidden the items buttons that still don't do anything, added some icons, created a nice card for the logged in account. The only thing I am still not happy with is the contrast of the account name vs the background image, so I will look into something to fix that soon.

I am still not sure where to post this those kind of updates, maybe a community is not such a bad idea but I cannot create communities on beehaw, maybe I will create one on another instance and mod it from this account. In any case, I will post that info here too.

[–] brunofin@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Another update, with basic post and comments view ready, we should be soon approaching an alpha release date so you all can have a look by yourselves :)

[–] BoldRaven@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

can't wait to try this out, thanks for all your hard work on this!!!

[–] brunofin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just another quick update, I got the domain beyond.onl and I'm planning to run a small Lemmy instance there. I probably won't be allowing account creations but I will be creating some official communities for Beyond announcements there.

The idea is to have a community where you can follow for new post updates about Beyond and comment, suggest features and improvements etc.

I will probably host it somewhere like Azure, I am not sure, as I have no idea of the costs associated with it, so I will be taking it very slowly and see how that will turn out. Maybe at some point I will open it up for new users too, let's see :)

[–] Gert_vK@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure if this works Bruno, but here you can create a free server in the cloud:

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Don't understand what you need.... Have a look

I am running my webserver here for free, works fine !!

[–] DannyBoy@mastodon.ie 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@brunofin As a huge fan of Infinity that got his heart broken when the developer announced that it doesn't gonna get any Lemmy/Kbin support.
I hope you succeed! That app looks incredible!

Please, I want an AMOLED dark mode (pure black).
When you released a test on Android, please send me a link to beta test it.

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[–] 7tevoffun@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Love it! Super excited to see your progress when it's available!

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