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Reasoning :

There are currently no effective Twitter clients on Windows and Linux. The goal of Lyrebird is to fix this, support macOS, and remain fully open-source.

Hopefully this works out.

How to get it

Precompiled

Recommendations :

• Windows & macOS : download according precompiled release.

• Debian/Ubuntu (& derivatives that use dpkg/apt) : Add repository source deb https://deb.lyrebird.moe any main, then download signing key and add it to apt keyring

  wget https://deb.lyrebird.moe/lyrebird_repositories.gpg
  sudo apt-key add lyrebird_repositories.gpg
  rm lyrebird_repositories.gpg
  

  Then install latest version with apt update && apt install lyrebird.

• RedHat/CentOS/Fedora (& derivatives that use yum/dnf/rpm) : Add repository source (unsure if gpgcheck=0 is needed as I sign rpm packets, but doesn’t hurt)

  [Lyrebird]
  name=Lyrebird releases
  baseurl=https://rpm.lyrebird.moe
  gpgcheck=0
  

  Then update your repositories and install package lyrebird.

Build it yourself

Requirements:

• A Java 10+ development kit with JavaFX components included (i.e. an Oracle JDK or an OpenJDK+OpenJFX combo)
• Apache Maven (works at least with version 3.5.2)
• For native images you need either InnoSetup tools on Windows or dpkg-deb/rpmutils on Linux depending on what system you want to target. You can only build native images for the current system type.

First (in project folder) : $> mvn clean install -DskipTests

Then any of the following (in Lyrebird/lyrebird folder):

• Execute only (no packaging) : $> mvn spring-boot:run
• For a native installer (will be in Lyrebird/lyrebird/target/jfx/native) : $> mvn jfx:native -DskipTests
• For a portable JAR file (will be in Lyrebird/lyrebird/target) : $> mvn package -DskipTests

What does it look like?

Current state of development:

• Log in
• Tweets-based systems
  • Base systems :
    • Timeline
    • Mentions
    • Direct messages
  • Display features :
    • Basic textual display
    • Display username, @screen_name and user profile picture
    • Display for chosen list
    • Text highlighting
      • Mentions
        • Color
        • Clickable
      • Hashtags
        • Color
        • Clickable
        • In-app search
      • URLs
        • Color
        • Clickable
    • Media embedding
      • Officially supported
        • Twitter image embedding
        • Twitter video embedding
        • Twitter gif images embedding
      • Easy embedding
        • Direct image embedding
        • Direct video embedding
      • Why is it not easy to do ?
        • Youtube video embedding
  • Data loading features :
    • Seeking older tweets by-demand (scroll or button)
    • Streaming API NO LONGER ALLOWED BY TWITTER STARTING 16TH AUGUST 2018
    • Seeking updated information as often as possible while respecting rate limits
• Tweeting
  • Support text
  • Support attachments
  • Support geolocation
• Interaction with tweet
  • Reply
  • Quote
  • Like (formerly favourite)
  • Retweet
• Interaction with users
  • Follow/unfollow
  • Block/mute
  • List management
  • Report

• Searches

• Miscellaneous
  • System notifications
  • Internal notifications
  • Update system
    • Basic update system
    • Auto-update

Can I contribute?

Please do!

It should be fairly easy to understand the general idea of the back-end model for any seasoned Java developer with some Spring Framework experience.

For the UI/JavaFX model a lot of the work is delegated to a JavaFX framework called EasyFXML which you can read about here.