/FlipSocial

Social media platform for the Flipper Zero.

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FlipSocial

The first social media app for Flipper Zero. Connect with other users directly on your device through WiFi. The highlight of this app is customizable pre-saves, which, as explained below, aim to solve the dissatisfaction of typing with the directional pad. FlipSocial uses the FlipperHTTP flash for the WiFi Devboard, first introduced in the WebCrawler app: https://github.com/jblanked/WebCrawler-FlipperZero/tree/main/assets/FlipperHTTP

Features

  • Login/Logout
  • Registration
  • Feed
  • Profile
  • Customizable Pre-Saves
  • Direct Messaging (coming soon)

Login/Logout Log in to your account to view and post on the Feed. You can also change your password and log out when needed.

Registration Create an account with just a username and password—no email or personal information required or collected.

Feed View up to 128 of the latest posts, create your own posts, and "Flip" a post—FlipSocial’s version of liking or favoriting a post.

Customizable Pre-Saves The biggest challenge with a social media app on the Flipper Zero is using only the directional pad for input. As a solution, I implemented a pre-saved text system. The pre-saves are stored in a pre_saved_messages.txt file on your SD card. You can edit the pre-saves by opening qFlipper, downloading the file from the /apps_data/flip_social/ folder, adding your pre-saves (separated by new lines), and then copying it back to your SD card. You can also create the pre-saves directly within the app.

Roadmap

v0.2

  • Stability Patch
  • LED options

v0.3

  • Explore Page
  • Friends

v0.4

  • Direct Messaging
  • Privacy Settings

Contribution

This is a big task, and I welcome all contributors, especially developers who are into animations and graphics. Fork the repository, create a pull request, and I will review your edits.

Known Bugs

  1. When clicking any button other than the BACK button in the Feed view or the post creation view, the app doesn't respond to inputs.

    • Solution: Restart your Flipper device.

  2. When trying to log in, the app shows "Awaiting response..." and nothing happens for more than 30 seconds.

    • Solution 1: Update your WiFi credentials. Sometimes you just need to hit Save again on either the SSID or password.
    • Solution 2: Ensure your WiFi Devboard is plugged in, then restart the app.
    • Solution 3: Ensure your WiFi Devboard is plugged in, then restart your Flipper device.

  3. When accessing the Feed, I keep getting the message "Either the feed didn’t load or there was a server error."

    • Solution 1: Update your WiFi credentials. Sometimes you just need to hit Save again on either the SSID or password.
    • Solution 2: Ensure your WiFi Devboard is plugged in, then restart the app.
    • Solution 3: Ensure your WiFi Devboard is plugged in, then restart your Flipper device.

  4. The Feed is empty.

    • Solution 1: Update your WiFi credentials. Sometimes you just need to hit Save again on either the SSID or password.
    • Solution 2: Ensure your WiFi Devboard is plugged in, then restart the app.
    • Solution 3: Ensure your WiFi Devboard is plugged in, then restart your Flipper device.