Flare UI

[dontobi]

I recently heard about Flare. So I briefly installed the app on my Pixel 8.

Compared to OpenVibe, the app is significantly faster and seemed stable to me.

However, I'm not convinced by the UI. In my opinion, it's very similar to iOS. Since I don't like this design, I uninstalled the app from my device.

Perhaps it will be possible to choose the UI design at some point in the future. The Sync app for Reddit/Lemmy is a good example of this for me. There, you can customize the UI.

[Tlaster]

Since I don't have a UI/UX designer to work with, so all I can do is copy others UI/UX.
To be clear: Flare Android is not an "iOS design", it uses Material 3 Expressive and design for Android, If you open the Settings from Android 16 you will see the answer:

Settings	Flare(High contrast mode off)

Even the Google's own Jetpack Compose does not contain this color scheme nor the container's shapes, I have to adjust it manually.
But in the old days, Flare does uses the "old" Material 3 design:

But no-one uses Flare ATM 😥.
Maybe in the future you can choose which design to use(the "old" Material 3 or the "new" card style Material 3 Expressive), but currently I don't have the bandwidth to do this right now.

[dontobi]

I see the MD3E approach and also many places where MD3E elements are used.

However, in my opinion, the design of the timeline is more of a rejection of the new iOS 26 design.

In Google Apps, the buttons are all on the right, and if there are several, they are arranged above or below each other.

I would implement the design of the timeline more in the style of the Gmail app. Instead of the search bar, you could then place the timeline switch. The hamburger menu can then be used to access the social network functions.

The bottom menu bar could then be used to switch between timeline, notifications, and discover. The write button could then float above it on the right-hand side.

But at this point, I would like to say thank you for the app. I'll keep an eye on it and maybe I'll come to terms with the timeline design at some point. Until then, I'll continue to use Moshidon and the official Bluesky.