• Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    Glad to have you! Tell the apollo dev we’d be happy to have them make an app for Lemmy!

    I created our android app, jerboa, and there’s also an open source one in development for iOS called mlem

    • lemdoeswhatreddont@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      Another round of thanks for your work on jerboa!

      I see your commit history goes back to Jan 2022, if you had to rewrite what would you want to do differently?

      (I don’t have any specific plans here, but I’m completely new to this space and interested in anything you’ve learned the hard way.)

      e: hold on you’re the og lemmy dev, you ain’t got time for this. I thought it was just the app, whoops, ignore me pls

      • Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        I don’t think I would change anything… Learning jetpack compose, and signal-based reactivity, has been teaching me how to be a better UI designer, and I’ve been applying its principles to the other apps I develop. Its very opinionated, for performance reasons, whereas a lot of front end frameworks like react can let you do things in 1000 different ways.

        I’d been wanting someone else to build a native android app for lemmy for a while by then, but when it became clear no one else was going to, I scraped out time from other lemmy work for a month to build it.

    • PaleBlueDot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Awesome, I’m dropping that google play store link nonstop over the last day or so. Good luck to you in the coming days!

      Your app is going to explode!