morii @morii@mastodon.technology

Hello fediverse! This is the official Mastodon account for morii: an Android and iOS app for @pixelfed. The app isn't anywhere near release stage yet, so this account will pretty much be dev notes and feedback requests.

You can also find morii at https://pixelfed.social/morii.

I'll likely create a Patreon to support app development once I'm closer to an alpha/beta release, but in the mean time I've created a ko-fi if you'd like to support me while I'm working on the pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha. Thank you all so much for your support, financial and otherwise!
http://ko-fi.com/moriiapp

The name of the app comes from this lovely video from Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1asBOCAmgaw

My goal for this project is to create an app that gets out of your way so you can capture those fleeting moments, and appreciate those captured by others in the fediverse.

Studying Instagram's UI to improve it and adapt it for morii. No screenshots tonight, but here's a nice annotated sketch :)

#pixelfed

Having a semi-working prototype is great because now I'm hypermotivated to work on the app so I can enjoy using it more 😁

Also:
1) Yes, the app is still going to be released on iOS. The iOS build is just broken right now so I can't take screenshots of it. 🤷‍♂️
2) The app is still pretty far from any sort of alpha/beta/whatever release. No ETA on that except for "probably a few months out at the least."

Today's goal was to get public timeline statuses from Mastodon/PixelFed's API displaying in the app. It was mostly a success!
There's still some issues with parsing and displaying photo captions and various other UI issues, but this is a nice milestone to achieve. :)

📸: @Freezer, @gdkar

#pixelfed

Took a bit of a break from morii development this week so I don't get burnt out. From what I hear, the PixelFed API is coming pretty soon so I should have a working proof of concept for the public TL soonish.

Feedback request: How should morii handle hiding metrics if a user doesn't want to see them?
https://github.com/technoboy10/morii/issues/8

Slow but steady progress on the app tonight. I think this is a good stopping point for feed item design (for now); I'll probably work on designing one of the other views next.

#pixelfed #morii

Here's the current version of the dark theme I'm implementing for morii. The colors are definitely a work in progress, and I'd love to hear your feedback!

I'll likely create a Patreon to support app development once I'm closer to an alpha/beta release, but in the mean time I've created a ko-fi if you'd like to support me while I'm working on the pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha. Thank you all so much for your support, financial and otherwise!
http://ko-fi.com/moriiapp

Working on some weird text layout issues right now, but I'll try to post a screenshot of the WIP dark theme tonight!

Related to this, I've also created GitHub project boards to track my work and goals for the project in a transparent way.
https://github.com/technoboy10/morii/projects

If you have specific feature requests for morii, please consider filing an issue on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/technoboy10/morii/issues/new?template=feature_request.md

This will allow me to better plan out features for the 1.0 release, and create a roadmap for future releases!

Fun fact: morii is AGPLv3 licensed! https://github.com/technoboy10/morii

If you use the Instagram app, what features are must-haves for a replacement? What doesn't work about the Instagram app that I can address?

Here's where I'm currently at with the app's UI after a few days' work.

There's still a lot of layout work to be done, but I think I'm getting close to having an image card design that I'm happy with. After that, I'll start designing some of the other views in the app (notifications, profile, search, etc.).

#pixelfed #appdev

The name of the app comes from this lovely video from Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1asBOCAmgaw

My goal for this project is to create an app that gets out of your way so you can capture those fleeting moments, and appreciate those captured by others in the fediverse.

Hello fediverse! This is the official Mastodon account for morii: an Android and iOS app for @pixelfed. The app isn't anywhere near release stage yet, so this account will pretty much be dev notes and feedback requests.

You can also find morii at https://pixelfed.social/morii.