Archival

Unfortunately, Twitter's stance towards third-party clients rendered building a good one pretty much impossible.

Additionally, I do not really have the time to manage this project myself anymore.

Hence the archival.

Last develop branch's statistics :

Reasoning :

There are currently no effective Twitter clients on Windows and Linux. The goal of Lyrebird is to fix this, support macOS, and remain fully open-source.

Hopefully this works out.

How to get it

Precompiled

Recommendations :

• Windows & macOS : download according precompiled release.

• Debian/Ubuntu (& derivatives that use dpkg/apt) : Add repository source deb https://deb.lyrebird.moe any main, then download signing key and add it to apt keyring

  wget https://deb.lyrebird.moe/lyrebird_repositories.gpg
  sudo apt-key add lyrebird_repositories.gpg
  rm lyrebird_repositories.gpg

  Then install latest version with apt update && apt install lyrebird.

• RedHat/CentOS/Fedora (& derivatives that use yum/dnf/rpm) : Add repository source (unsure if gpgcheck=0 is needed as I sign rpm packets, but doesn't hurt)

  [Lyrebird]
  name=Lyrebird releases
  baseurl=https://rpm.lyrebird.moe
  gpgcheck=0

  Then update your repositories and install package lyrebird.

Build it yourself

Requirements:

• A Java 10+ development kit with JavaFX components included (i.e. an Oracle JDK or an OpenJDK+OpenJFX combo)
• Apache Maven (works at least with version 3.5.2)
• For native images you need either InnoSetup tools on Windows or dpkg-deb/rpmutils on Linux depending on what system you want to target. You can only build native images for the current system type.

First (in project folder) : $> mvn clean install -DskipTests

Then any of the following (in Lyrebird/lyrebird folder):

• Execute only (no packaging) : $> mvn spring-boot:run
• For a native installer (will be in Lyrebird/lyrebird/target/jfx/native) : $> mvn jfx:native -DskipTests
• For a portable JAR file (will be in Lyrebird/lyrebird/target) : $> mvn package -DskipTests

What does it look like?

Current state of development:

• [x] Log in

• [ ] Tweets-based systems

  • [x] Base systems :
    • [x] Timeline
    • [x] Mentions
    • [x] Direct messages
  • [ ] Display features :
    • [x] Basic textual display
    • [x] Display username, @screen_name and user profile picture
    • [ ] Display for chosen list
    • [ ] Text highlighting
      • [x] Mentions
        • [x] Color
        • [x] Clickable
      • [ ] Hashtags
        • [x] Color
        • [x] Clickable
        • [ ] In-app search
      • [x] URLs
        • [x] Color
        • [x] Clickable
    • [ ] Media embedding
      • [ ] Officially supported
        • [x] Twitter image embedding
        • [x] Twitter video embedding
        • [x] Twitter gif images embedding
      • [ ] Easy embedding
        • [ ] Direct image embedding
        • [ ] Direct video embedding
      • [ ] Why is it not easy to do ?
        • [ ] Youtube video embedding
  • [x] Data loading features :
    • [x] Seeking older tweets by-demand (scroll or button)
    • [x] Streaming API NO LONGER ALLOWED BY TWITTER STARTING 16TH AUGUST 2018
    • [x] Seeking updated information as often as possible while respecting rate limits

• [ ] Tweeting

  • [x] Support text
  • [x] Support attachments
  • [ ] Support geolocation

• [ ] Interaction with tweet

  • [x] Reply
  • [ ] Quote
  • [x] Like (formerly favourite)
  • [x] Retweet

• [x] Interaction with users

  • [x] Follow/unfollow
  • [ ] Block/mute
  • [ ] List management
  • [ ] Report

• [ ] Searches

• [ ] Miscellaneous

  • [x] System notifications
  • [x] Internal notifications
  • [x] Update system
    • [x] Basic update system
    • [x] Auto-update

Contributors

Can I help?

Please do! There's a large amount of features to support and I can't really work on it regularly by myself unfortunately...

It should be fairly easy to understand the general idea of the back-end model for any seasoned Java developer with some Spring Framework experience.

For the UI/JavaFX model a lot of the work is delegated to a JavaFX framework called EasyFXML which you can read about here.