New Android client: Rosy Crow

https://www.reddit.com/r/geminiprotocol/comments/13id5mx/new_android_client_rosy_crow/

created by ascii-blit on 15/05/2023 at 16:40 UTC*

15 upvotes, 2 top-level comments (showing 2)

Rosy Crow is a Gemini client for Android that I've been working on for the past few months. I finally have it at a point where I'm comfortable making it available to the public.

At the outset, my goal for this project was to build an Android client for my own personal use that incorporated a few features that I was not seeing in other clients. So far, the pieces that I feel set Rosy Crow apart are (in no particular order):

Image inlining

Printing

Client certificates that take advantage of device biometrics (Android 9+ only)

Visual themes (only a handful right now, but more are on the way)

A menu that's more kind to my thumb and wrist

I've also been using this app as a torture test for my Opal client library for .NET. Rosy Crow is built using Microsoft's MAUI framework.

I plan on making Rosy Crow's GitHub repository public sometime in the near future, once I'm comfortable with the level of documentation. I'll be sure to post an update here once I've done so.

Feel free to e-mail me with any questions, suggestions or concerns regarding Rosy Crow.

Homepage

You can find the app on the Google Play store here

Edit: The F-Droid repo is up: https://rosy-crow.app/fdroid/repo/

Comments

Comment by [deleted] at 15/05/2023 at 16:58 UTC

3 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Does F-droid version will be available?

Comment by odintsoff at 15/05/2023 at 20:35 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I was writing a Gemini client using Opal and MAUI too. But looks you got your done first 🤣 Nice work!