Last week I shared a screenshot of something we’re working on at Micro.blog. Specifically an Android app. Finally.

This has been a long time coming and it’s something that follows on from my work I’m doing with Gluon. Let’s just say that this “official” version is always the rewrite that I wanted to do and perhaps I’ll just take some of the new things 😜

For now my speciality is certainly creating apps using React Native… so as you expect this will also be based on it. Whilst I wish I could be using something like Jetpack Compose together with Kotlin, though the truth is that I won’t be very productive at all. At the moment I don’t have any creative space in my head to take on that learning curve.

The app, once finished, will also be opened sourced. I don’t mind showing off the work. I have my way to code. Love it or hate it 😎

What I can’t do is give you a release date… it’ll be ready when it’s ready. However, there will be blog posts about the development of it. Just like this one.

At the moment I am unsure what I’ll blog about. Most likely little snippets of what I’m up to, including some longer posts. Heck, you should know what I write about. Always good to get it out there.

As I’m building it in React Native you might think that there will also be an iOS app… This is not the case for this app build. We already have a great app for Micro.blog. However, for now I have kept the iOS app more as a tech demo. Which means it works if you build it yourself. I’ve been trolling Manton with the iOS app already haha.

Anyway, I am happy to get this finally under the way and hope you all enjoy the process and updates as we go.