Hey everyone, I just wanted to provide a big announcement that Thunder is now available on Google Play Store!
The direct link to the Google Play Store listing is here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hjiangsu.thunder
As far as general releases go, I’ll try to keep all the different versions in sync (GitHub, Google Play, TestFlight) to minimize the amount of confusion.
I would like to give a big thanks to @CTalvio for helping with the graphics and screenshots that you see on the listing page, and others for contributing to the overall project! This would not be possible without all their help. Thunder is a community-driven project, and all your contributions towards the project help shape the way it is. If you are interested in contributing to Thunder in any way, feel free to reach out!
If you would like to join in on the conversation for Thunder, we have a Matrix page here: https://matrix.to/#/#thunderapp:matrix.org
If you would like to check out the GitHub page, it is linked here: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
Yay! This is hands down the best lemmy app so far.
Thunder might be better now with updates but when I sampled all the apps I settled on Liftoff as the best one.
Thunder is picking up momentum. We’re not quite approaching feature parity, but there’s more and more progress being shown off in the dev chat.
I think Thunder has the best design of all of the Android apps that I’ve tried. The only feature that is missing now that I’ve identified as personally wanting is being able to search Lemmy posts and comments (rather than just communities). I’m cool with being patient as more features are added, because overall, Thunder is so enjoyable to use.
Better search is on my list, so I’ll eventually get to that unless someone else on the team does first. Working on sidebars atm.
I like Connect :)
I am using connect right now so they’ll beg to tell me what’s better about thunder
I agree. Love it and get serious RedReader vibes from it
I mean… It’s like the second app for android, I think? Competition is not that fierce.
I count at least four: Thunder, Connect, Jerboa, Liftoff. Five, if you count Voyager (PWA).
There’s also Slide, which is a fork of the old Reddit app. But, that’s not very active. There’s quite a few actually. There was a thread with a bunch linked but I don’t remember where it was posted.
Edit: Found it!
And Summit
Voyager is straight up the best one rn imo
Just wish it were a native app, it lags a bit on my low end phone sometimes
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I’m @CTalvio
This is how my recent weeks have been:
By far the best Lemmy app. Really reminiscent of Relay for Reddit, which coincidentally was by far the best Reddit app IMHO.
Keep up the awesome work!
Also a former Relay user, I was really bummed it wasn’t among the apps making a jump over to Lemmy. A lot less bummed now because I legitimately picked up app development just so I could help turn Thunder into my next Relay. Look forward to doubletap slide to zoom in the image viewer, sliding items away completely to reveal buttons, comment context view when opening a link to a certain one, and more stuff that Relay demonstrated as must have’s for me.
Agreed on all those features! Would be awesome to get in-app video playing like Relay had too
That’s definitely something I want, too, but is likely a lot more work than images.
I came from Relay too. Thunder and Jerboa are similar to relay in my opinion. Thunder just needs a few more features it will be perfect.
Just downloaded Thunder and I definitely agree with the Relay comparison.
I think it will be my go-to Lemmy app because of that.
Great work, really thank you guys! I’d been keeping an eye on this app because it looked very promising in beta. It’s one of the best Lemmy clients I’ve ever tried and I love it being open source. I hope I could contribute, but I have a quite limited Flutter knowledge.
You dont have to know code to contribute. Answer questions when you see them, report issues, etc. I am a screen reader user and make it my goal to find anything that makes using a screen reader in the app more difficult and reporting it. I suspect thunder is one of the most accessible lemmy apps because of all my reports and the devs fixing them.
You definitely don’t need Flutter knowledge to help out! Providing general feedback on UI/UX, or ways to improve the overall experience is just as valuable as helping implement the features!
I started out having very limited Flutter knowledge, and have been using this experience to learn about Flutter. That’s the main reason why I even started on this app 😅
Thunder had been my favorite Lemmy app for a while now. I’ve tried others and some have a lot of potential, but Thunder is the app that does most things the way I like it. Congrats on the launch!
Here I go downloading another Lemmy app!
Let’s see if this one beats my current go-to, Liftoff.
I just have them all downloaded and bounce between them when they get a new update lol
I bounce between my several installed Lemmy apps whenever one of them locks up :)
Brilliant news. Will it be getting an fdroid release?
Brilliant news. Will it be getting a lemmy version?
(t’was on fdroid the entire time)
Is this sarcastic? I’m confused.
Yes, though I just noticed it is on the IzzyOnDroid repo, the “fast track” fdroid repo. You may not have it enabled if you didn’t see it in fdroid
It really is on F-Droid. Has been for a while. Sync and search.
Awesome! Will the beta chanel still be through GitHub or are you also setting up beta testing through play store?
For now, beta/pre-release stuff will be on GitHub until I figure out how to do it through Play Store as well. My thoughts:
GitHub:
- Will always be here for those who don’t want to use Google Play Services/TestFlight for preference reasons
Google Play:
- General releases in parity with the general releases on GitHub/TestFlight
- Beta stream for the pre-releases, in parity with pre-releases on GitHub
TestFlight:
- For now, it’ll only be for general releases since there’s no way to easily create “streams” for people who want to be in the beta stream
- Eventually, if possible, get it on the App Store for general releases, and then TestFlight will be for beta pre-releases
Congrats! It’s been fun seeing how fast this app has progressed over the past month. It’s made my transition from Reddit seamless. Thanks for doing what you do.
I don’t know if this is the right place but the issues I noticed are:
- All posts seem to be blended into each other because of the bad default dark theme
- No way to delete my own comments
- After I deleted my comment from a different lemmy client, it is not reflected here, even if I restart the app
- More precise text size controls needed. The default text size is too small
There are a lots of things that Thunder does perfectly fine. I can’t list all those here
You can edit your comment by swiping from left to right on it. Cant delete it yet though
For some reason bitwarden will not auto fill for my accounts.
I use BitWarden personally and have not encountered this. I would suggest creating an issue on GitHub so that we can track it down!
Keepassdx is the same way
It’s a bit weird. Try backing out after unlocking instead of picking an account, and then auto-fill from the keyboard.
This is what I eventually got to for it to fill.
I can’t find it weird, maybe not compatible with my device? I’m on Android 13 lineageOS, nonrooted.
EDIT: I was able to get to it by direct URL but for some reason couldn’t find by searching
It should be compatible with Android 13, but it may take some time to propagate through the app store since it was published not too long ago! Does tapping on the direct link take you to a valid page? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hjiangsu.thunder
I had the same issue. It hasn’t propagated into the search corpus. The direct link works.
You have to restart your device to get the Play Store to seed properly. Otherwise it can take a week+
After trying a lot of apps; Thunder is my current go-to, glad to see this has been added to another distribution platform.
I always prefer to use FOSS when available, and Thunder works extremely well, EVEN on my low end phone.
Great work and many thanks!
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Looking good, very much reminds me of Relay for Reddit! Hopefully there will be options to hide the top and bottom bars while scrolling in the future :)
On the way: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/257
This one is my app of choice!
