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OctoLab: a free, open-source GitLab client for Android (gitlab.com and self-hosted) by 0dxJayB in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] 0dxJayB@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for the info and heads-up 👍

OctoLab: a free, open-source GitLab client for Android (gitlab.com and self-hosted) by 0dxJayB in c/opensource@programming.dev

[-] 0dxJayB@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago

Fair point, the irony isn't lost on me. Development actually happens on a self-hosted GitLab as already mentioned in the post; GitHub is the public mirror because it still gets the most visibility and contributions, and F-Droid and Obtainium pick up releases from there. If you'd rather not touch GitHub at all, F-Droid builds it from source.

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OctoLab: a free, open-source GitLab client for Android (gitlab.com and self-hosted) (lemmy.nz)

submitted 8 hours ago by 0dxJayB@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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I've been building OctoLab, an unofficial GitLab client for Android. It works with gitlab.com and self-hosted GitLab (CE/EE), started as a GitLab-focused fork of OctoDroid, and is Apache 2.0 licensed.

What it does:

Issues and merge requests: browse, create, edit, comment, review diffs, subscribe/unsubscribe
To-dos | Participating: your to-dos plus new comments on issues and MRs you take part in, with notifications and counts per account
Your activity as a timeline, grouped by project
Projects: files, README, branches, tags, commits, releases, code search; images, videos and files open in the app
Bookmarks for projects, groups, issues, MRs, commits and snippets
Sign in with gitlab.com in your browser (OAuth), or with a token on any GitLab instance
Epics (Premium/Ultimate): a group's epics with their child items, comments and reactions
Role-aware: shows what your GitLab role allows; what it doesn't is hidden or explained
Multi-account (self-hosted and gitlab.com side by side), dark and light theme

No tracking, no analytics, no proprietary services.

How it's built: development happens on our own GitLab instance in small commits; each release is squash-merged into one commit on GitHub, so issue numbers in commit messages and changelogs refer to that internal tracker. Development is AI-assisted, as disclosed in the README; I review and test every change on my own devices before release, and the full changelog is in each GitHub release.

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.secninjaz.octolab/

GitHub (releases, Obtainium): https://github.com/secninjaz/OctoLab

Feedback and bug reports welcome.

OctoLab: a free, open-source GitLab client for Android (gitlab.com and self-hosted) by 0dxJayB in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] 0dxJayB@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

I had thought about that initially, but chose github thinking that gitlab repos don't get as much attention(in terms of contributions and popularity) compared to github for some reason. I might be wrong but that's what I thought looking at other unrelated awesome apps hosted on gitlab.

OctoLab: a free, open-source GitLab client for Android (gitlab.com and self-hosted) by 0dxJayB in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] 0dxJayB@programming.dev 0 points 12 hours ago

Well, people can use whatever software they like, be it any. I've just shared something that I initially created for internal use only and thought would help larger gitlab community to be more productive in their day to day work. Btw OctoLab is for GitLab instances only. And your reply sounds more like promotion than app alternatives suggestions.

Personally, I had tried LabNex and Labcoat before for gitlab but none come even close to(what i wanted from a gitlab client and hence OctoLab was created) OctoLab in terms of UX and features.

Let users decide for themselves. Thanks

OctoLab: a free, open-source GitLab client for Android (gitlab.com and self-hosted) by 0dxJayB in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] 0dxJayB@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yes, those are not on public repo, github releases mention that although its not mentioned in readme.

That refers to development and fix cycles over days/week and then squash-merged into a release. Those are worked on an internal gitlab repo so they're not on github but release notes include full changelogs.

To avoud confusion, maybe I should exclude issue numbers from changelogs unless they're from github issues.

OctoLab: a free, open-source GitLab client for Android (gitlab.com and self-hosted) by 0dxJayB in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] 0dxJayB@programming.dev -3 points 14 hours ago

Thanks for the feedback. I will consider modifying disclosure as and if applicable.

For clarity, the app is not made from scratch and is a fork of OctoDroid(FOSS client for github) so only gitlab specific APIs and screen changes have been modified/added. There's no 1000-4000 lines to review at any point of time. Commits are made in small batches while fixing/development/test cycles and squash-merged into one commit for release, so you probably are referring to such squashed commits. I don't blame you for thinking that and your feedback makes sense.

On a side note, I just recently saw a post on Lemmy regarding reddit becoming too negative recently. It seems its not specific to reddit and Lemmy may not be so different in that regard, especially as the userbase grows.

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OctoLab: a free, open-source GitLab client for Android (gitlab.com and self-hosted) (lemmy.nz)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by 0dxJayB@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

12 comments fedilink

I've been building OctoLab, an unofficial GitLab client for Android. It works with gitlab.com and self-hosted GitLab (CE/EE), started as a GitLab-focused fork of OctoDroid, and is Apache 2.0 licensed.

What it does:

Issues and merge requests: browse, create, edit, comment, review diffs, subscribe/unsubscribe
To-dos | Participating: your to-dos plus new comments on issues and MRs you take part in, with notifications and counts per account
Your activity as a timeline, grouped by project
Projects: files, README, branches, tags, commits, releases, code search; images, videos and files open in the app
Bookmarks for projects, groups, issues, MRs, commits and snippets
Sign in with gitlab.com in your browser (OAuth), or with a token on any GitLab instance
Epics (Premium/Ultimate): a group's epics with their child items, comments and reactions
Role-aware: shows what your GitLab role allows; what it doesn't is hidden or explained
Multi-account (self-hosted and gitlab.com side by side), dark and light theme

No tracking, no analytics, no proprietary services.

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.secninjaz.octolab/

GitHub (releases, Obtainium): https://github.com/secninjaz/OctoLab

Feedback and bug reports welcome.

Edit: How it's built: development happens on our own GitLab instance in small commits; each release is squash-merged into one commit on GitHub, so issue numbers in commit messages and changelogs refer to that internal tracker. Development is AI-assisted, as disclosed in the README; I review and test every change on my own devices before release, and the full changelog is in each GitHub release.

~~Development is AI-assisted (disclosed in the README); every change is reviewed and tested by a human.~~

TIL: For every one Lemmy user there are 25,000 people on Reddit by 0dxJayB in c/til@lemmy.world

[-] 0dxJayB@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

I'm new fairly new to lemmy. Reddit still seems useful, particularly because as the OP says due to number of users. You might get faster and broader discussions and ideas to whatever you're looking for. Not sure why/when it started feeling negative on reddit, maybe that's one of the side effect of large number of users and may apply to Lemmy too once userbase grows similarly