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Making a Lemmy App for Fun (pixey.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/124934

Feedback and criticism is welcome and encouraged!

This is a small jetpack compose app that I'm currently making for android devices to browse... federated link agregators (Lemmy, kbin etc.).

I promise I'm not just bandwagon-ing. However, I thought that the current situation could make for a good excuse to learn android development/mobile design (something I've never actually done before).

Some notes:

This application will be open source. I think it's just a bit too early to share it right now. [^1]

Some icons are placeholders, e.g. "upvote" and "downvote" are upload and download at the minute.

Some of the padding and card-style is inconsistent in the mockups I've shared here.

There are quite a few "language-choice" issues. Most notably the vague term "Mods" on the profile page (this refers to the communities the profile moderates). I plan to adjust this through development (and as the mainstream fediverse establishes itself).

I'm doing this for selfish reasons like "fun" and "education", so there aren't any guarantees for a fully working... anything...

If I was to do this for altruistic reasons, I'd contribute to Jerboa which seems to be undergoing a lot of development from what I can tell on GitHub,

[^1]: If you're on the tildeverse, I've already open-sourced it to tildegit. I'm also tracking my progress over there: https://tildegit.org/delph.seiji/lemulink.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I too am learning Compose! My experience is just messing around with python for a year so Ive got a lot to learn. Can you suggest resources that could be helpful for a self learner? I'm currently going through google codelabs. Maybe i can contribute to your project when im skilled up!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why not contribute to the current open source Lemmy mobile app?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As I said:

I’m doing this for selfish reasons like “fun” and “education”, so there aren’t any guarantees for a fully working… anything…

If I was to do this for altruistic reasons, I’d contribute to Jerboa which seems to be undergoing a lot of development from what I can tell on GitHub

Just for personal fulfilment ~~and ego~~ more than anything. Besides, I'm not sure I'm proficient enough in their stack to contribute without getting in the way lmao.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That is answered in the original post, the author is just doing this for fun and learning. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

From the OP:

I'm doing this for selfish reasons like "fun" and "education", so there aren't any guarantees for a fully working... anything...

They just want to make their own without worrying about it actually working.