It’s good to have more choices as we have less options on IOS compared to Android.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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Is it FOSS?
It's free, but not open source. Maybe I'll reconsider, but no promises either way.
What is your reason for making it free yet not open source? To me, that decision makes 0 sense.
If you wanted to make money for your app, you should at least charge for it because not one person in the fediverse will donate money to someone that won’t at the very least share their source code.
If you wanted the fediverse to support you, you need to show us that you’re not here to enshittify Lemmy.
As it stands though, you come off as just another dead-eyed capitalist looking to milk a grassroots community while offering nothing in exchange other than obfuscated code with a “trust me, bro. I won’t sell your data.”
Wow, that's rough. Sorry you feel that way. But I understand how it's hard to trust anything or anyone these days.
If you still need android testers let me know.
Great! Thank you
Are you planning on a Material You design implementation for the Android version or just sticking with the iOS look?
For now at least, it'll be the same on Android and iOS
Looking good! Also: !lemmysilver
Did it work? I expected the bot to comment 😄
this community isn't whitelisted, whoopsie, should have checked.
Thanks!
Great! Another great way to get Android users is to publish releases on the github page a lot of Lemmy users will install directly if available or use a service like Obtainium that pulls directly from GitHub.
Thanks for the advice!
Count me in on Android! Foxes are my spirit animal and I'm a chronically online loser so I'll be a great beta tester.
Great! Thank you. I'll be in touch when I release the latest test build.
Thank you!
I’m definitely gonna try the iOS app out, I hope you find the droids you’re looking for
Thank you. I only know a few people who use Android, so it's a challenge.
Do you have a community for discussion etc? Or just the GitHub?
A community would probably be a good idea huh? I'll get on that.
I want to release this app for Android, but Google requires that I have 12 Android testers. Anyone up for that?
Don't you just... build an APK and let people download it? Or are you trying to use some Play Store beta system?
I think it's only a requirement for new Android developers.
I can think of a few ways around it, but I would in fact like some actual testing done on this thing before release.
Where are you seeing that requirement? Like I said, there should be nothing stopping you from simply building the APK and letting any arbitrary user download/install it. Think of all the APKs available on GitHub, itch.io, etc. Anyone can download/install those without the user or developer having had to register for anything. Android is not a closed system like iOS in which distribution of applications is restricted to some official channel.
Ah, misunderstood you. Yes, I can make the app available on other services and available for side loading. I'm not at all familiar with the various Android ecosystems other than the Google Play Store (which has the requirement I mentioned). Appreciate the advice!