Tales of a native Bluesky Android client

October 06, 2025

I've been hacking on a Bluesky Android native client, jokingly called JerryNo!, but that I silently renamed to Monarch once I realized it could actually go places!

This is my first Android app using new frameworks and libraries, I'm excited to see where it goes.

It's nowhere near ready for day-to-day usage, but I'm dogfooding it already to spot bugs and UX issues.

I'm having lots of fun, so I decided to go back in time and get together a timeline view of my stream of consciousness of these weeks :^)

I don't want Monarch to become an income source, I want to keep it open-source - on Tangled of course.

geesawra

7mo

yea that's right, my bsky android client is called Jerry No

geesawra

7mo

I love this shit so much

geesawra

7mo

Ayo this works?

geesawra

7mo

It took a while but the code looks much better now Kotlin is cool but it still smells too much like java It has Result<> though!

geesawra

7mo

geesawra

7mo

It's also insane that I went from never having touched Jetpack Compose to a proto-app that works and has no major layout issues Fuck AutoLayout, android gang

geesawra

7mo

i love reactive programming

geesawra

7mo

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