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Hello Lemmy. I just released a new Lemmy client for iOS. I'm still working on a few key features (background notifications, word block filters, i18n, community creation and moderation, plus a few other random things). I hope to have them complete soon. If you have the time, please take a look and let me know how I can make it better: Maliki Issues.

I want to release this app for Android, but Google requires that I have 12 Android testers. Anyone up for that?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

It looks nice and smooth, but you need to add support for 2FA because I can't log in without it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

It’s good to have more choices as we have less options on IOS compared to Android.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's free, but not open source. Maybe I'll reconsider, but no promises either way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What is your reason for making it free yet not open source? To me, that decision makes 0 sense.

If you wanted to make money for your app, you should at least charge for it because not one person in the fediverse will donate money to someone that won’t at the very least share their source code.

If you wanted the fediverse to support you, you need to show us that you’re not here to enshittify Lemmy.

As it stands though, you come off as just another dead-eyed capitalist looking to milk a grassroots community while offering nothing in exchange other than obfuscated code with a “trust me, bro. I won’t sell your data.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

Jesus fucking christ on a buttplug, what the actual fuck is your problem, dude?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, that's rough. Sorry you feel that way. But I understand how it's hard to trust anything or anyone these days.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If you still need android testers let me know.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago

Great! Thank you

[–] [email protected] -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Are you planning on a Material You design implementation for the Android version or just sticking with the iOS look?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago

For now at least, it'll be the same on Android and iOS

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Looking good! Also: !lemmysilver

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Did it work? I expected the bot to comment 😄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

this community isn't whitelisted, whoopsie, should have checked.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Great! Another great way to get Android users is to publish releases on the github page a lot of Lemmy users will install directly if available or use a service like Obtainium that pulls directly from GitHub.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 22 hours ago

Thanks for the advice!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Count me in on Android! Foxes are my spirit animal and I'm a chronically online loser so I'll be a great beta tester.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Great! Thank you. I'll be in touch when I release the latest test build.

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

I’m definitely gonna try the iOS app out, I hope you find the droids you’re looking for

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

Thank you. I only know a few people who use Android, so it's a challenge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have a community for discussion etc? Or just the GitHub?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

A community would probably be a good idea huh? I'll get on that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want to release this app for Android, but Google requires that I have 12 Android testers. Anyone up for that?

Don't you just... build an APK and let people download it? Or are you trying to use some Play Store beta system?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's only a requirement for new Android developers.

I can think of a few ways around it, but I would in fact like some actual testing done on this thing before release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Where are you seeing that requirement? Like I said, there should be nothing stopping you from simply building the APK and letting any arbitrary user download/install it. Think of all the APKs available on GitHub, itch.io, etc. Anyone can download/install those without the user or developer having had to register for anything. Android is not a closed system like iOS in which distribution of applications is restricted to some official channel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Ah, misunderstood you. Yes, I can make the app available on other services and available for side loading. I'm not at all familiar with the various Android ecosystems other than the Google Play Store (which has the requirement I mentioned). Appreciate the advice!