Thunder for Lemmy - Apps on Google Play
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Thunder is an open source, cross-platform Lemmy client

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

  • MrPear@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    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!

    • ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      Thunder might be better now with updates but when I sampled all the apps I settled on Liftoff as the best one.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • richter.atmosphere@lemmy.sdf.org
          0·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            1 year ago

            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.

    • rasha@feddit.nl
      01·
      1 year ago

      I mean… It’s like the second app for android, I think? Competition is not that fierce.

  • PaulDevonUK@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Is there a difference between the two?

    The store appears simpler than manually finding, downloading and installing from gut.

    • darklightxi@lemmy.worldOPM
      2·
      1 year ago

      There shouldn’t be any functional difference between the two! The only thing right now is that pre-releases/nightly builds are only available through GitHub

  • DieguiTux8623@feddit.it
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • shortwavesurfer@monero.town
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • oselecto@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    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!

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • kratoz29@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    Excellent news, although the app is kinda broken to me since like the last version I guess.

    It sticks within the menus and it is slow on average, I clean installed the PlayStore version to start clean but still have the same experience.

    • darklightxi@lemmy.worldOPM
      01·
      1 year ago

      Hmm, could you open up an issue on GitHub regarding this? In general, I think Thunder should be fairly well optimized for most devices

      If you could provide some more details about your device and OS version, we might be able to trace down the issue!

  • yads@lemmy.ca
    0·
    1 year ago

    Awesome! Will the beta chanel still be through GitHub or are you also setting up beta testing through play store?

    • darklightxi@lemmy.worldOPM
      1·
      1 year ago

      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