1 yr. ago • 98%

Currently developing an Android app to sync subscriptions and saved posts between accounts

It's open source and I'd like some feedbacks, as you can see I such at designing mobile apps.

Also, if you have any feature recommendations it would be nice to hear about

My idea is to setup a background service that keeps all accounts you want synced using instances APIs

Lemmy Handshake

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Blocked users and communities, with the option to add to or replace the lists.

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- Noted
  
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- Might as well add the capability to block whole instances.
  
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  OP isn't making a full client.
  
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Apps don't suck if they work.
If an app looks great and flashy but functionally is garbage, then what's the point.

Give me a plain looking app that works well every time.

Looking forward to grabbing this when it's available.

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Some import/export feature would be cool

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- Noted
  
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Sick pls post again when it’s available to download

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Exactly what I have been looking for this entire evening, i made a new account on lemm.ee and now I'm looking to sync my old (lemmy.world) and new accounts. I will give it a try and report back here. Thank you for your efforts

Edit: can you post a link please, I couldn't find it in the play store.

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- I started yesterday and unfortunately it won't finish until next week, I'll post as soon as it goes online
  
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  This will be amazing! Thanks for your efforts
  
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- Not a mobile app but I used this script the other day and it worked great for me: https://github.com/bunburya/lemmy2opml
  
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  Thank you for referring, I ended up using https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate to migrate my old account's subs to my new account.
  
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Feels like these can be baked into the apps that people use to browse lemmy 🤔

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- Probably, if that was the case I wouldn't be making this one
  
  If any open source client wants to add this feature, I'd love to help
  
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Currently using LASIM, but this looks like an improvement!

I have comments, posts and saved stuff across three accounts.

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UI/UX designer here. Wouldn't mind spending a couple hours of my free time designing a better interface for you. Would be a fun project.

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- Thank you, I'd rather do it myself as I'm learning during the process but if you have any advice, I'd love to hear about
  
  The design is like this now
  
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Can I ask about how it works? Will my comments also be visibly duplicated on each instance then?

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- I think this is for list data, like subscriptions, blocked users, saved posts etc...
  
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  Exactly, it would not be nice to duplicate all comments and posts
  
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Very nice, do you have a GitHub where we could follow the project?

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- Lemmy Handshake
  
  Here it goes
  
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  Just started Watching it and also starred it.
  
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Constructive advice about the UI:

The padding on the top feels unnatural as there's lots of open space which isn't common for that area. Maybe add a header that gives instructions and move the content higher, something like "Getting started" with an icon and some text below?

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- Great, I tried and it feels better already.
  
  Thanks!
  
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This would require both instances to be online at the same time. A hard ask

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- Not really, since it can re-sync it later on if you just do regular polling
  
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  It was tongue in cheek
  
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  I'm thinking about how I'm going to keep it synced and I'll probably keep an offline list of all the communities per instance and update it often, after that, add and remove communities in the other instances
  
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Material you design would be nice

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- Did this, you were so so right, feels much better now
  
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Is it possible via the API to get the date/time when a subscription was added? If so, then a two-way sync would be possible, else I think only a one-way sync can be realised reliably, right?

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- I'm targeting "every-way" sync actually, if you ad 4 accounts my goal is to sync all 4
  
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  So if one account is subscribed to A and B, and another account is subscribed to C and D.
  
  After sync, are both accounts going to be subscribed to A, B, C, and D?
  
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This is amazing would love to test once in alpha.

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That's fuckin dope! Can't wait to get it when its on f-droid

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This is great! Please post when the app would be available.

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Thanks!

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This looks awesome! Is there a link?

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I love you

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This is the way

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Tell me when I can download (APK) it!

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Awesome! Would love to use it but I only have 1 very old, crappy, Android Nexus 5X.

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- What is the android version of it?
  
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  8.1 Oreo I believe
  
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Why is this an android app?

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- Why not?
  
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  There's two solutions for the desktop already and I'm building it in flutter, which is cross platform, I don't have a Mac here to compile to iOS though
  
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  A PWA would be platform agnostic.
  
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- If it's built using compose multiplatform it's going to be easy to build for iOS and desktop
  
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  Building it in flutter, so yes, cross platform :)
  
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