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Hi everybody, I'm a UI/UX designer and I wanna contribute to the community here with my expertise. Here is a quick prototype for a Android Lemmy app with Material You Design, it's a simple and customizable app. With this app, I also want to improve the experience when exploring different servers.

Obviously, this is just a concept, so if any developer interest, I'm very willing to collaborate with 🫑 . Vice versa, if anyone stucks with designing his/her own Lemmy client, just reach out to me and I will give you a hand.

Here is a quick demo of some basic features: https://vimeo.com/843481714?share=copy

And here is the figma file if you wanna take a look: https://www.figma.com/file/ZBR30l0ZcKuyKMPjeDmvdF/Lemmy-Android-app?type=design&node-id=53526-31054&mode=dev

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[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they're both janky as all heck.

[–] sam@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] citrusface@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Liftoff is pretty great. Devs keep making improvement every day.

I am still waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out, but Liftoff might convert me.

[–] Nerdulous@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Liftoff is better but compared to the greats that existed in the reddit ecosystem these are very crude. The platform just needs time for devs to catch up to the 10+ years they had invested in Reddit development. The dev behind sync for Reddit has been hard at work on an client for Lemmy with as much feature parity as possible.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does liftoff look different on Android? I feel like it’s ugly as sin on iOS.

[–] sam@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it looks fine on android, but it probably doesn't integrate with iOS nicely. I also think light themes are bad by default so I can't judge your photo accurately lol.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here is iOS dark / compact

IMHO, the shadows, padding around cards, corner radiuses, drop down stylings, etc. are all pretty rough. It doesn’t feel as refined as Material You or iOS’s design system.

After driving in Memmy, Mlem, and Wefwef (now Voyager), Liftoff feels kind of janky to me.

Just my 2Β’

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you go into settings and turn off card shadows and rounded corners it gets a bit better IMO

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh god, that’s way better. That stuff should be off by default. That said, I still feel like they need a UI person to contribute, and OP should hit them up.

As someone who does UI for a living, it feels rough to me. I wish I had the time to help out, but I’ve already got a couple other nasty side projects on my plate.

[–] sam@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Just popping in to mention the UI got a pretty big update recently. You might want to take another look, I think its a lot better now.

[–] zachatrocity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The card shadows are a little much. I forgot those were on my default. @mykl@lemmy.world would you agree?

[–] mykl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't use compact so I've not seen those before, but I'm sure that's not what anyone intended!

I'd be interested to see what's in the video. I think we're at a good point to spend some time understanding what works on both main target platforms and making the changes to get us there.

[–] frnche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure that’s just how Android looks.

[–] Skanky@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You misspelled "Connect"

(They're both pretty good actually)

[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thunder and Connect are better than Jerboa, haven't tried Lemur

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Using thunder now. It's not perfect, but it's the best experience for me that I've found so far.

[–] a_m@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm currently using connect for lemmy. It works fine, but I still have to use the web version to jumping between servers, which is why I come up with this idea.

[–] incognito_15@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, connect let's me switch between accounts on different instances just fine.

[–] a_m@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, I'm just too lazy to create account for every servers I find interesting, especially when the different between them are minor

[–] jrbaconcheese@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Why would you create an account on every server? You can access any community on any server that your server is federated with.

[–] Lurker@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I'm really enjoying wefwef. It's smooth and works well. No weirdness or issues on my end.

[–] frnche@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Memmy on iOS has been great so far.