Update to watchRant!
(my second and probably last post about it)

watchRant client is mostly complete now!

Added: logging in, notif page, ranting, commenting, ++/-- of rants, search, amoled theme,

A surprise me btn for a random Rant (why is this not in the official app @_@, its in their API)

And the best:

Sick rant animation of the client of @Simmorsal!!
https://github.com/SIMMORSAL/...

some things are still missing: voting comments, stories page, comment/ranting with images (nobody takes images with a watch haha) ...

watchRant is also available on the PlayStore now (as sideloading to a watch isnt very convinient), but the latest updates will always be on github first

For context: https://devrant.com/rants/6340608/...

Nice!

Do you really want to add stories? I think that’s pretty useless ^^

@Lensflare thats so true. I actually forgot abt them haha. Also as they are quite big, on a small screen doesnt make much sense.

Btw i suggest u to add the surprise rant of the api to joyRant aswell! Its sooo adicting and you get to find cool old rants.

But it needs 2 api calls .. 1 for the random rant id and one for its comments -.-

@joewilliams007 thanks for the suggestion. I’ll put it on the todo list.
But before I do that, I have some higher priority features to implement. The search and improved comment UI

@Lensflare are you a user of JoyRant? Asking because you seem to be an Android guy :)

@Lensflare sadly not, am on Android yes.

@joewilliams007 I have a suggestion for the Random Rant feature:
We can call it Necromancy and give it an icon showing a zombie hand poking through the gound 😆

@Lensflare lets do ittt :D

I will make an android phone client maybe aswell and then we can add those cool stuff in parallel!!!

Also how would some cool themes be with special effects etc yk all the cool bloat :D

So far ive only got dark and amoled >_<

@joewilliams007 I only have light and dark and it’s directly tied to the device settings, so that it can change based on the day time automatically (or just be whatever the device is, constantly).

I don’t have any good ideas for other themes and it would also make things more complicated as I would need to decouple it from the system settings. So, I don’t think that I will ever add more themes.

And I also have the configurable accent color which already should cover some customization needs in regards of colors.

But I‘m open other kinds of customization.

For example, I have this idea for an option that would fetch the user info for each rant in the feed (asynchronously), so that one doesn’t have to open the rant to know who wrote it.

@Lensflare that config accent color is pretty cool! I actually dont know how to implement that myself as its not hardcoded xml then contrary to themes.

Doesnt username and image path come up in the feed api anyways?

I watched a podcast or stream from devRant the other they and they said it specifically doesnt show the username so people dont judge a post by its creator

But it is worth a try and see if it influences us too much.

@joewilliams007 yeah, I assumed that they don‘t show the user info for that specific reason. And I respect that. If I implement that feature, I‘ll definitely make it disabled by default.

Mucho cool! Now I wish I had a smart watch 😅

Maybe add the things not available in the client to the readme as well?

Also maybe change the play store description to say that it's a devRant client. It's technically not the community and is kinda false advertising.

Instead of ""watchRant" is a fun community for developers [...]" maybe "watchRant is a client for the devRant community" or smth

@ScriptCoded true will change it!