FlipSocial¶

Description¶

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 address the challenges 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

Requirements¶

• WiFi Developer Board or Raspberry Pi Pico W with FlipperHTTP Flash: https://github.com/jblanked/FlipperHTTP
• WiFi Access Point

Features¶

• Login/Logout
• Registration
• Feed
• Profile
• Customizable Pre-Saves
• Explore (NEW)
• Friends (NEW)
• Direct Messaging (NEW)

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 50 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. To address this, 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 pre-saves directly within the app.

Explore: Discover other users and add them as friends.

Friends: View and remove friends.

Direct Messaging: Send direct messages to other Flipper users and view your conversations.

Roadmap¶

v0.2 - Stability Patch

v0.3 - Explore Page - Friends

v0.4 - Direct Messaging

v0.5 - Improve memory allocation - Improve Feed Page - Raspberry Pi Pico W Support

v0.6 - Improve memory allocation - Update the Direct Messaging View - Update the Pre-Save View

v0.7 - Improve memory allocation - Loading screens.

v0.8 - Improve User Profile (Bio, friend count, block) - Improve Explore Page

v1.0 - Official Release

Contribution¶

This is a big project, and I welcome all contributors, especially developers interested in 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, post creation view, messages view, or the friends view, the app doesn't respond to inputs.

2. Solution: Restart your Flipper device.

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

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

6. Solution 3: Ensure your WiFi Devboard is plugged in, then restart your Flipper device.

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

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

10. Solution 3: Ensure your WiFi Devboard is plugged in, then restart your Flipper device.

11. The Feed is empty.

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

14. Solution 3: Ensure your WiFi Devboard is plugged in, then restart your Flipper device.

15. Out of memory when starting the app or after visiting the feed and post views back-to-back.

16. Solution 1: Restart your Flipper device.

17. Solution 2: Update the app to version 0.7 (or higher).

18. I can no longer access the Messages.

19. Solution 1: Uppdate the app to version 0.6.3 (or higher)
20. Solution 2: Click the logout button then login again. Make sure your password is correct before clicking "Login".

Changelog¶

0.7¶

• Improved memory allocation
• Increased the max explore users from 50 to 100
• Increased the max feed posts from 40 to 50.
• Added loading screens.
• Added updates from Derek Jamison

0.6¶

• Improved memory allocation
• Fixed bugs in Direct Messaging View
• Fixed bugs in Pre-Save View

0.5¶

• Improved memory allocation
• Improved Feed Page
• Raspberry Pi Pico W Support

0.4¶

• Added direct messaging.
• Updated app flow for a smoother user experience.
• Reduced recent feed posts from 128 to 50.
• Improved memory allocation.

0.3¶

• Added an Explore page to discover and add other users as friends.
• Added a Friends page to view and remove friends.
• Enhanced error handling.

0.2¶

• Stability improvements.

0.1¶

• Initial release.