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This may dumb, but could someone just repurpose an existing reddit client? There's a few open source ones.
Compared to the visual part we see, the federated stuff in the background is likely 80% of the work in the app, reddit doesn't use activity pub so 80-90% needs to be different anyway and so it is probably nicer just to write all fresh code.
I'm basically reverse engineering my favorite reddit client to build the one I'm working on. I posted an apk below if you want to test an early alpha.