For those of you wondering what all the fuss is about, here’s a quick introduction to the app.
Yes, it’s yet another app for Lemmy, but based heavily on the mature but now abandoned Lemmur project, with a few updates to make it run with the current API and some minor changes to the UI.
Written in Flutter, so it is very multi-platform. We currently have builds available for testing for Android and iOS (also running on iPad and Macs [Apple Silicon only for the moment]). Brave souls can try building it for Linux or Windows and report back on their experiences!
Preview it on iOS at TestFlight or on Android at GitHub.
The source is released under GPL 2.0 and is available at GitHub for inspection, download, build, issue logging and contributions, so go and get it!
Features:
- Fully featured for end users: posting and commenting fully complete.
- Sorting and UI customisation options.
- Light Mode, Dark Mode, System Mode.
- Multiple accounts on multiple servers.
- Bookmark your favourite posts and comments.
- Localisation (work in progress).
- Full search support (posts, comments, users, communities).
- Support for direct messaging.
And here’s a few screenshots:
Gorgeous Card view
Compact view
Settings
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Built for Android (not released yet)
Runs on iPad and Mac (in TestFlight)
Been enjoying it so far.
You never realize how nice it is to be able to swipe to dismiss an image until you can’t do it anymore.
Keep up the good work!
I have a question that might be right to ask here, idk.
My account is on lemmy.world.
Ive added lemmy.ml and a few other instances.
I have subscribed to a few communities on lemmy.world, but when i try to do the same for communities on other instances I’ve added, it says i need to be logged in to that instance. I thought part of the way this worked was only needing one account to interact with all federated instances? Can somebody help me wrap my head around this? Strictly mobile user
I’ve noticed that the super script, spoiler and postscript markup isn’t actually working on the app. The buttons in the formatting bar work, but they don’t do the thing in the actual post.
Superscript
spoiler
Spoiler
Postscript
I had noticed this for spoiler, thanks for the heads up on the other tags. Will take a look
What happens when you swipe sideways in the app?
I’m going through and literally downloading and testing every app for Lemmy, and Liftoff is really cool so far. One thing I’ve noticed is direct image uploading; are images hosted on Imgur, or somewhere else? And is direct video uploading being considered?
They appear to be uploaded to the instance your acccount is on. The URL for the image shows up after you choose the image when making a post.
Can other instances see it?
Just installed it for Android and it already feels so much better than the mobile website or Jerboa. Thanks for the work, I’ll be following the development of the app!
Liftoff is by far the best Lemmy app I’ve tried on Android. The UI is beautiful, and doesn’t feel generic like others. Seems quite stable. Now available on Play Store. I’m really enjoying it!
Awesome work - really good!
I feel silly asking, but question for anyone - where do you see your saved / bookmarked posts and comments?
Go to your profile. It’s in the top left corner.
Thank you!
The test flight links all tell me beta testers aren’t being accepted. Is there a new link that I can use to join?
Edit: never mind, found the latest link in the latest release post
Would love a TestFlight code here as well. Can help you test and if I get some time and read the codebase even contribute from time to time 😅
Lemmur was amazing so thank the gods for Liftoff!
I got it yesterday and I love it! Great job!
Why when I go to install this in TestFlight does it say Limbo for Lemmy?! Version 0.0.1
I can’t login on iOS. It just spins. Do I need a TOTP 2FA Token?
Thank you. I just discovered Liftoff! and it immediately replaced Jerboa on my Android tablet. Looking forward to seeing how this app matures, it’s already great!
Same. Jerboa kept crashing for me. I liked it’s look, but it made me look for others. This, I believe, is the only one that let’s me filter subs like I could on RIF, which is one of the most important features to me
Looks amazing, can’t wait to try it for Android!
You can get the Android installer here:
daaamn! sexy app!
i just started with lemmy a few hours ago by downloading ‘Connect for Lemmy’ from the play store. i have found it interesting and all, but i just installed the Liftoff apk from your github and i think this post-reddit experience might actually have a future.
thank you so much!
