That's fantastic. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you, just doing my part to serve the community!
This kind of stuff is exactly what the fediverse needs. Great work!
100%! So much growth left in the fediverse. And I canβt wait for more competition on the app space :D
iOS dev, making a cross platform app, inspired by how apollo was?! Oof, as an Android user, i cant wait! π
Budgeting to get an Android device so I can test it myself too ;)
Also, Apollo was just iconic. If I can built half of that, weβll be rocking it!
Which Android device are you looking at? I've always wondered how devs develop for Android since there's so many different kinds of devices that run Android with different capabilities. With iPhones, I'm (hopefully correctly) assuming that it's a little easier since there's only so many versions to support.
Yep, much easier on iOS. For Android I'll prob pick a Pixel.
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This is great! I miss features from apps on Kbin, like saving posts, collapsing comments, etc. Signed up.
Wanted to add - Joey for Reddit was my go-to on Android when I left iOS/Apollo. Might be good inspiration, as well; I actually felt that Joey handled somethings much better than Apollo did.
Joey for Reddit is/was the ULTIMATE client if you desire customization of the experience.
Man...I spent days on those font size and elements to be show/hide on the cards/threads. But it was in the end MY PERFECT experience
Hadn't heard of it. But taking a look!
I'd rather see Relay or Infinity inspired stuff but I guess it's a first step for this type of field.
Noted. I'll take a look at those and see what I can pull from them too.
It'd be nice to have a landing page like what Apollo has. One where you can favorite Magazines and the like.
Signed up! I've been using a Firefox shortcut on my Android phone for the past couple of days, but an app would make things much easier and more accessible.
I'm happy to see kbin apps start popping up so fast. Signed up for this beta.
Will this be open source?
Following this with great interest! Thanks for your hard work :)
Signed up!
Wow! that's amazing, looks really good already!
I like it! Signed up for the beta. Do you plan on open sourcing it at some point?
Iβll consider once the codebase reaches a satisfactory point. Would want to write some contribution guides and whatnot.
How's it pulling data? There is currently no kbin API (previous one was removed)
I posted elsewhere in thread. But Iβm hosting my own API service for it. I can write about it after I get the app out.
Itβs a stopgap solution in the meantime.
Looks great! Signed up :)
We're watching your career with great interest!
This is awesome, thank you for working on this! Signed up and ready to be a tester.
Sweet! Thatβs awesome! ππ
Maybe a name like Aurora or Nova could work. Like it is still space / celestial themed but both symbolize βnewβ (aurora - new morning after nighttime, nova, explosion of light / pent up energy), and can work as a spiritual successor paying homage to Apollo. Great idea btw I just signed up.
Wouldn't recommend using "Aurora". It's already the main alternative to the official google play store, and it's getting hunted down by Google.You wouldn't this nice new app to get stuck into this unrelated mess.
To add to this, Nova is a very popular Android launcher as well.
Thatβs fair! I was giving examples but youβre right this and what another user mentioned about Nova make them imperfect choices. I like the idea of paying homage to Apollo somehow.
What about something like Komet? Then it would still be space themed, but have the K from kbin as well.
You absolute legend. Make it paid and Iβll pay for it. This is how we win.
Awww thanks. My aim is to keep it free (plus ad free!). Just wanna help the fediverse become more accessible :)
If I do charge for something it would be for unique features that go above and beyond.
I am definitely interested, but I have a question: if I entered the beta testing, what would be my responsibilities? I ask before I have never beta tested anything...
Like using an app but you can't hate on it if anything is broken lol. Instead you have to submit feedback/issues so they can be addressed. But also, could just be new ideas in the form of feature requests.
I'll prob setup a Discord and an issue tracker on github.
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Can't wait to see this, it should make it easier for people to join that would have ended up using the reddit app instead.
Kbinauts to the moon! Signing up now!
Kbinauts is a great name for kbin users!
I enjoy a beta test. Signed up.
Great work, keen to see how this progresses.
This is wonderful! Looking forward to seeing how the app shapes up. Have signed up for the beta test :)
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