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accumulator / Quickddit

Reddit client for Jolla's SailfishOS, Ubuntu Touch and Nokia N9
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Android client #50

Closed mitchcurtis closed 4 years ago

mitchcurtis commented 5 years ago

Is an Android client out of the question? Would you accept patches?

accumulator commented 5 years ago

It's not out of the question, but this would mean a MAJOR rewrite of the UI, adding an abstract intermediate layer on top of Silica (and prob kirigami for Android). It's not just an issue of accepting patches, you'd also have to commit to (help) maintaining the code :)

Do you think there's room for yet another reddit client in the android space?

mitchcurtis commented 5 years ago

Do you think there's room for yet another reddit client in the android space?

The Joey client just put ads in after being free for ages. That was the best free client for Android that I've found so far. So, yes, I really do. :)

It's not out of the question, but this would mean a MAJOR rewrite of the UI, adding an abstract intermediate layer on top of Silica (and prob kirigami for Android). It's not just an issue of accepting patches, you'd also have to commit to (help) maintaining the code :)

I see... perhaps I will fork it and play around a little with writing a UI from scratch. I can't commit to anything as I have my own ongoing projects, that's why I thought I'd just throw the idea out there first. :)

accumulator commented 5 years ago

Have a look at https://github.com/rinigus/pure-maps Rinigus already did some of this platform-abstraction work (and that was in turn based on some other work, for which I don't have the link right now)

null-von-sushi commented 5 years ago

The Joey client just put ads in after being free for ages. That was the best free client for Android that I've found so far. So, yes, I really do. :)

Just wanted to mention, Android has RedReader already which works rather well. It's on F-Droid.

mitchcurtis commented 5 years ago

The Joey client just put ads in after being free for ages. That was the best free client for Android that I've found so far. So, yes, I really do. :)

Just wanted to mention, Android has RedReader already which works rather well. It's on F-Droid.

Thanks, going to try that out.