Liftoff! - 🐒 A mobile client for Lemmy (Android/iOS/Windows/Linux)

You might want to rename it considering that a company named Liftoff Software exists and has a trademark on the the term, "liftoff" pertaining to software.

Seems like their trademark is actually on SAAS offerings. I think we'll be fine
- The trademark category is for "software". There's no distinction between SaaS and an app. They're the same thing from a trademark standing.

Looks like this is a combination of lemmynade and limbo? Which were both forks of Lemmur.

https://lemmy.world/c/liftoff

I liked lemmur UI so this one is quite nice.
I believe this was Lemmynade originally!

Not in fdroid for some reason

Screenshots? What makes it special? Is it CPU/memory efficient?

When you land on their GitHub repo you have nothing describing the project, only build instructions.

It is one of the most compete so far. It’s also very smooth on iOS.

And it's in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/liftoff-bin

looks awesome, could use a bit more of a frontend touch since a laptop /desktop has a wider screen than a mobile phone

Feels smooth. I wish there was an option to hide the bottom bar and to reduce the font size a bit. For now I'll keep using Jerboa, but waiting for it to be less "sluggish" while scrolling.

Looks promising! Is it on FDroid?

Loving the app so far. There are bugs but its definitely the most mature and has the best UI/UX out of the apps I've tried.

I've tried just about all of the current apps that are available for lemmy over the last two days and so far liftoff feels the most like a usable app to me. To ve fair, I know that a lot of rhe apps I tried are still in alpha or beta, so I'm not trying to talk bad about them, I get it. Liftoff is pretty good though.

Yep, agreed. Just tried it, and if it wasn't for the Subscribed feed not loading bug, I'd use this instead of Jerboa.
- Yeah I almost forgot about that. I've also noticed lately that whenever you post a comment it appears twice as if you double posted, but in reality there's only one comment.
- Which bug is that? I haven't seen that in the issue tracker, could you share details and I'll prioritize that.

Yay more options

Cool! I'll download it and add it to lemmy app folder :)

Lol I have so many that I'm trying out as well. Did the exact same.

Just tried it (writing this comment from it). Generally, it feels a lot more polished and nicer looking than Jerboa, but, if you set the feed to Subsciber, nothing happens, it just loads a blank page.

Other than this, it feels a lot better than Jerboa. So I would use it, but the Subscribed feed is broken, so that's a deal breaker for me currently.

Ok, found a fix for this, on the drop down for selecting feeds, choose the subscribed feeds from the instance, not the everything section. That seems to work as expected for me.
- But most of the communities I've subscribed to are not on my instance.

Looks good!

You might want to add it to the lemmy readme (or maybe we need a "awesome lemmy" repo with a list of lemmy software and resources?)

I made a bunch of feature requests to lemmy (stuff like reddit enhancement suite features) and most notably the ability for a user to block an instance, would it be ok if i will copy paste them to your issue tracker?

alt and the left key should move to the previous page like in web browsers on linux.

I second an awesome-lemmy repo, do post the link if you make it!
- I made a pull request that got merged using github GUI, it was pretty easy to figure out.

So I am using it right now but my main issue is that it keeps repeating the same posts over and over on my all feed. I thought it was scrolling back to the top every time I backed out of a post but no it was just another dupe.

It is because it shows the posts from Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml and beehaw.org all at the same time. If you click the sorting button Up the top you can set it to only show one of them.

Looks ugly, but buttery smooth.

Using Liftoff right now. Looking good so far.

Will def check out when it hits iOS AppStore or TestFlight.

So I love it so far, but when switching to the true black AMOLED setting, a lot of the buttons stay that gray color. Not sure if intended or missed.

Any intention providing are TestFlight link for iOS testing?

Can't you just download the file from the repo and install it?
Looking to try this out on iOS too.

Will it be on f-Droid ?

Yes. https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff#version-xxx-was-released-why-is-it-not-yet-on-f-droid
Need to ask on !liftoff@lemmy.world
Try Obtainium. I use it for apps that I would have to wait on F-droid for. Also check out the IzzyOnDroid Repo as a lot of apps get updates faster on that repo.

So my instance has updated to 0.18 and Enabled TOTP support - I have enabled it as I want to ensure my accounts are as secure as possible. the problem, no apps support it yet.

I plan to install every app for Lemmy in order to find a good experience on Lemmy. So I have installed it, but I won't be able to use it untill it supports entering TOTP tokens.

Do you plan to add support for this?

Edit: not sure why this was downvoted. I know some people are having issues with the implementation TOTP in Lemmy - I nearly did, in fact the code didn't show up in my authenticator app until I accidentally added it twice. (Then I removed the identical second code) But the fact the implementation needs work doesn't mean it shouldn't be supported - next point release should be fixing some or all of these things, so isn't it a good idea to be prepared for that? Also I've seen a pull request in Jerboa's github that adds preliminary support for it as well - but the Devs are bogged down with requests for Lemmy and Jerboa, so I'm not expecting it to make it through in the next week, no matter how much of a priority it is.

Now I know this app is open source and run by people out of the goodness of their heart too. And I will patiently wait for the time when it's added - if not work out a preliminary way to add it and submit a pull request. But my expertise isn't in interface and app design and therefore if I do find the time to do it, the implementation will be crude at best - I know next to none of the conventions specific to app development, having only used LibGDX, which is a game dev toolkit similar to XNA for modern android.

TOTP support will be coming very soon: https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/pull/56

Still needs to be reviewed, but keep tracking this over the next couple days.
- Awesome! Thankyou.

Can't login, it says my password is incorrect

Edit: before someone tells me to put in my correct password, I use copy&paste from a password manager

Is your password longer than 60 characters? If so, you should know that your actual password was truncated to 60 chars at the time of account creation. You won't notice on the website because the login webform automatically truncates characters beyond the limit, but most 3rd-party apps don't do this because it's an undocumented thing.

Basically, my advice would be to update the password in your password manager to be truncated to 60 characters and then try logging in with the app again.
- What kind of maniac would use a password that's longer than 60 characters?
  
  I get that password managers are standard now, but anything outside the norm is just asking for trouble. I vividly remember updating a client's webfrom to reject emojis in passwords, because for some reason people started using them and it wrecked havoc in the backend.
- That was actually the thing, thanks a lot.
- By which component is the password truncated on account-creation? Imo, the web UI shouldn't do that without at least warning the user. Such long passwords might be a corner-case, but if the UI changes the password in any way before submitting it to the server, I think the user should see a big fat red notification. What if an account was created using a different client? The user wouldn't be able to log in using the web-ui because the web-ui refuses to send the unmodified password?
  
  If the password is truncated server-side during account creation, the server should do the same during login, the UI or client wouldn't even have to know about it.

I love to see a new Dart / Flutter project take off!

Slightly smaller font would be nice. Opening links in the default browser would be great too.

Looks great so far though.

I don’t understand how you’re supposed to run this on iPhone

Im not the dev, but the iOS wasn't released yet, there's only the instructions how to buid it. Check it again in a few days
- i see. thanks for the response. i guess i thought the post made it seemed like there was a version for iOS
First install TestFlight then join from the link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR

Flutter moment, based

This thread was retrieved via lemmy.world. You are not logged in there

I thought one account in any instance is enough and thats how lemmy works. Why do I have to sign up on all these individual instances to comment?

Just ran into the same problem. I fixed it by going to settings -> accounts and them pressing and holding on each instance that I don't have an account on and removing it. Then it uses the instance I do have an account on.
It probably means that you have enabled the "everything feed" in liftoff settings. This aggregates content from all instances apparently, even those not federated with yours.

Edit: weird cause you seem to be on sh.itjust.works which is federated with Lemmy.world.
- No i double checked and everything feed in turned off. I cannot up vote or Comment from other instances on front page. It says i need to login there.
There is a difference with adding an instance and accessing it that way (via their API - bypassing the server you signed up on) and via federation using the server you signed up on. Only in the latter case can you vote using the account already registered.

Try using the search feature to access the community via federation (e.g. "!cats@lemmy.world") rather than adding the instance directly.
An account on one instance lets you interact with all other instances, but only via that instance, not directly. You are probably viewing the "All" feed via an instance you are not signed into. Try this:

Click on the top button:

https://i.imgur.com/0PEHYsK.jpg

Select "all" for the instance you are logged in for, for example I am logged in via Lemmy.fmhy.ml:

https://i.imgur.com/RSGL4y5.jpg

Auto refresh or a refresh button in desktop version?

Using it to type this comment. Looks great and can see the potential.

One thing, when typing comments, can we have shortcuts to do links/quotes etc. Unless you know the markdown syntax you are stuck.

All in all. Good stuff

Maybe it is a new feature but I am also typing this comment with it and I can select from quite a few markdown options

Why do I get no posts if I choose Everything > subscribed?

Edit: just updated and this option seems to have gone

Gosh... I spent about an hour to understand and finally get an account on one of the Lemmy insurance. It odd so hard...

What is covered under a Lemmy insurance policy?

How does it deal with instances on 0.18 vs 0.17? Can it do both?

Both Work for me

I think this whole situation is going to cause a GPLv4. I hope it does so that this shit can't be pulled on a technicality.

Nice