ANN: deedum a mobile gemini browser

[Peter Vernigorov]

Awesome work! I personally decided against using a cross-platform
frameworks for my iOS client (source here
https://github.com/pitr/gemini-ios), since I've never used them
before. Once you get to iOS submission to the app store, feel free to
reach out, as it was not quite straight forward for my app to get
approved even for beta testing in Testflight.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 8:58 AM <me at case.codes> wrote:
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> [apologies if this is duped, I fear my mail client was sending html and the message got dropped by
> the listserv]
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> Hi all,
>
> What an amazing and inspiring community I've stumbled upon.
>
> I've long been lamenting the idea that a web browser now takes somewhere around a billion dollars
> to build. So when I came across gemini I had to try out it's promise of being able to build a
> client with low effort.
>
> So I picked up flutter and the protocol spec and made a gemini browser; deedum. This is really cool
> to me cause I probably spent less than 16hours on it, mostly fighting fixed width font rendering in
> flutter and it's also my first real app.
>
> It's awaiting review in the android playstore, and I'll be trying to get it building for iOS and
> into the app store. I'll also look into what it takes to get on fdroid.
>
> Here's the repo
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> https://github.com/snoe/deedum
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> If anyone wants to jump in you are more than welcome!
>
> A couple things I ran into:
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> It's missing client certs, its not clear to me if they actually should be transient or just fully
> user managed. They have cool potential though!
>
> Some sites don't seem to close the socket after sending a response, this could be me doing
> something wrong but gemini://mozz.us:1965/journal/ is one example of such a site.
>
> `ncat --ssl -c "cat test.gmi" ...` is great for testing, and also proves what a great idea gemini
> is.
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> Thanks!
> Case
>
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