Announcing the official community here: !beyond@lemm.ee and also announcing the first open testing for the alpha version is available for Android here: https://lemm.ee/post/688038

Just another quick update, I got the domain beyond.onl and I’m planning to run a small Lemmy instance there. I probably won’t be allowing account creations but I will be creating some official communities for Beyond announcements there.

The idea is to have a community where you can follow for new post updates about Beyond and comment, suggest features and improvements etc.

I will probably host it somewhere like Azure, I am not sure, as I have no idea of the costs associated with it, so I will be taking it very slowly and see how that will turn out. Maybe at some point I will open it up for new users too, let’s see :)

Another update, with basic post and comments view ready, we should be soon approaching an alpha release date so you all can have a look by yourselves :)

Go into the water, live there, die there.

Took Dethklok too literally I guess?

Quick update today I worked on the sidebar, I’ve hidden the items buttons that still don’t do anything, added some icons, created a nice card for the logged in account. The only thing I am still not happy with is the contrast of the account name vs the background image, so I will look into something to fix that soon.

I am still not sure where to post this those kind of updates, maybe a community is not such a bad idea but I cannot create communities on beehaw, maybe I will create one on another instance and mod it from this account. In any case, I will post that info here too.

Jetbrains Fleet is about to roll out their own AI assistant and it looks very promising.

noted!

correct the screenshots are from the Android app. I am using React Native to target both platforms with the same code, and for UI lib React Native Paper, which is a Material Design implementation. I am yet to see how it looks like on iOS but I like the idea of the app following the UI patters of the platforms it is running on.

We can do something about that too lol :p

I am saving this post for later :)

Thank you all for your suggestions, as some have suggested above, I think I will probably go with Beyond, as Buzz Lightyear says, “To Infinity and Beyond!”, seems like a good way to honor Infinity but also look at the future beyond.

I am not sure if as of now you can follow users on Lemmy, I saw this post shared on Kbin and apparently there I have a couple followers already :p

It’s probably gonna be Beyond :)

That’s honestly a good point but:

• Infinity is written in Java code specifically targeted to Android only, I am targeting both iOS and Android with the same code using React Native (maybe even web in the future but it’s a little more complicated due to CORS);
• I have worked with React for at least the past 4 years, so using React Native now for me feels like almost no learning curve at all, while if I’d be given a Java-based Android codebase now, I’d probably need to spend the first week figuring out the basics :)

Thanks!

Thank you but not just yet :)

React Native. The screenshot you see is from it running on WSA from Windows 11, it feels much better than the emulator from the Android SDK.

noted!

It could have a different name on the app store than the actuall app, ie. on Play Store Infinity is named “Infinity for Reddit”, but when instaled the app is named only “Infinity”, I was considering a similar aproach, what do you thinkl?

I m glad you mentioned it! after I posted this on Tuesday night, I came up with the same idea! To Infinity, and Beyond!

I see no reason why not

honestly as of now I see no reason why not open sourcing it, I still didn’t upload the code anywhere yet but probably will chose gitlab

I can definitely look into it

thanks you :)

you’re welcome :)

thanks for posting about it :)

Thank you all for all your comments and suggestions. I’ll go through them and try to answer as much as I can, I am generally quite busy on Tuesdays so I’ll probably be able to do it later at night today. In any case I am happy with the amount of support!

Feel free to suggest names here :)

Oh the music alone is worth it :) I sometimes find myself listening to it at work, and if you leave the suggestions on after it’s done what follows is also incredible, found a lot of cool indie games based on that, GRIS is a good example.

Celeste can be quite casual and also challenging at the same time.

You can die as many times and the game doesn’t punish you, you can save at any point and come back exactly where you lef off later.