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PieFed API & mobile app dev

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Announcements and discussions about the PieFed API - changes, improvements and general co-ordination between the frontend developers and the core of PieFed.

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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hello, I'm Gary.

I'm the developer for Summit, an Android app, which suppots both Lemmy and PieFed at the moment.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago

I'm the founder & lead dev of PieFed so I'm all over the place but the API is getting more of my attention lately. I've been doing web development for 25+ years and building social media type web apps for most of that time. Also lots of moderation on various platforms.

@andrew_s@piefed.social did the bulk of the work on the API.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 7 points 2 months ago

Blaze, just a Piefed enthusiast

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 7 points 2 months ago

Hello all! I'm jwr1, a web and app developer, and also the admin of kbin.earth.

Me along with @olorin99 are the developers of Interstellar. Intestellar was the first app to adopt PieFed, and additionally already supports Mbin and Lemmy. It's available on Android, Linux, and Windows, and a TestFlight is open for iOS and macOS.

We'd love to have more developers/contributors if anyone here knows Flutter or wants to get into it!

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

wjs018 - a contributor to piefed, mainly doing UI/UX stuff for the web interface rather than the api. I am not a dev by trade, instead I do biophysics, like at a lab bench in a lab coat and all that. My first foray into programming was when I was in grad school and I had to learn enough IDL and python to rewrite a bunch of IDL scripts into python so that any of us knew what the hell they did. Then, I changed the whole direction of my PhD thesis and didn't need any of that...however, I did stick with python as a bit of a hobby, and the rest is history.

[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Hi everyone, I've been working on a mobile app for the Fediverse on and off basically since Reddit screwed everyone with the API changes. It's a React Native app, but I'm yet to release anything publically, though I intend to do so soon. Until then, have a screenshot:

Screenshot of a Piefed mobile app. Serveral posts of the "All" feed are visible

I'm also doing web and backend development as my day job, and right now I'm looking to start homelabbing a bit.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That looks heavily inspired by PieFed ;-)

[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

I actually started developing for kbin, way before I even know PieFed existed, then switched to mbin when kbin development stopped, then to Lemmy when several Mbin servers just disappeared and I lost faith in the project, and finally to PieFed since I don't like the Lemmy devs. Everytime I took some inspiration from the current platform, so there's definitely some PieFed design elements in there :)

(Also thanks for your work and please don't stop developing, I don't want to switch again)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you for your work!