Nexus Client

Warning

Nexus Client is still heavily in development, and is not ready for use!

Description

A simple and user-friendly Matrix client made with Flutter and a Gomuks backend.

Screenshots

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Progress

• New logo
• Make context menus appear as bottom sheets on mobile
• Move from the Dart SDK to the Gomuks Backend with Dart bindings: https://git.federated.nexus/Henry-Hiles/nexus/pulls/2
  • Allow using remote Gomuks over websocket
• Platform Support
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • MacOS
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Web (may not be possible)
• Login
  • Username / password auth
  • OAuth / OIDC
  • Improve initial sync experience
• Rooms / Spaces
  • Displaying and choosing
  • Reading, showing unread
    • Mark as read button on rooms and spaces
  • Searching
  • Creating (Rooms, Spaces, and DMs)
  • Joining
    • Parse vias
    • Using a text/uri/link
      • Plain text
      • matrix: Uri
      • Matrix.to link
    • From space
    • Exploring
  • Leaving
  • Subspaces
• Messages
  • Encryption
    • Restoring crypto identity from a recovery passphrase/key
  • Sending
    • Plain text
    • HTML/Markdown
    • Replies
      • Choose ping on/off
    • Per message profiles
    • Attachments
    • Commands with MSC4391
    • Mentions
      • Users
      • Rooms
      • Inline emoji picker (Putting this here since it'll be implemented the same way as mentions)
    • Custom emojis/stickers
    • GIFs using Gomuks' GIF proxies
  • Recieving
    • Plain text
    • Per message profiles
    • HTML
    • Replies
      • Viewing
      • Jump to original message
        • In loaded timeline
        • Out of loaded timeline
    • Edits
    • Attachments
      • Unencrypted
      • Encrypted
      • Blurhashing
      • Downloading attachments
      • Opening attachments in their own view
    • Polls: Waiting on SwanFlutter/dynamic_polls#1
    • Mentions
      • Users
      • Rooms
        • Plain text (not sure if I want to add this or not, I probably won't unless there's interest)
        • Matrix URIs
        • Matrix.to links
      • Do some fancy fetching to get nice names
      • Make clickable
    • Custom emojis/stickers
    • History loading
      • Backwards
      • Forwards
  • Editing
  • Deleting
• Reactions: Waiting on flyerhq/flutter_chat_ui#838 or me doing a custom impl
• Pins
  • Displaying
  • Creating
• Threads
• Profile popouts
• Copy link to [room, space]
• Reporting
  • Events
  • Rooms
• Notifications using UnifiedPush
• Group calls using MSC4195
• Invites
• Settings
  • Light/Dark mode
  • SSD or CSD
  • Show media by default
  • Dynamic Theming
  • Devices
    • Viewing devices
    • Verifying devices
  • URL preview: Server / Client / None
  • Account changes
    • Display name
    • Profile picture
    • Timezone
    • Pronouns
    • Password
  • About
  • Log Out

Build Instructions

First, clone and open the repo:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://git.federated.nexus/Henry-Hiles/nexus
cd nexus

Prerequisites

Linux

• With Nix: Either use direnv and direnv allow, or nix flake develop
• Without Nix: Install Flutter, Go, Olm, Git, Clang, and GLibc.

Windows / MacOS

I don't really know. You will need Flutter, Git, Go, and Visual Studio tools, and otherwise I guess just keep installing stuff until there aren't any errors. I will look into this sometimeTM.

Set up Flutter

Get dependencies:

flutter pub get

Generate Gomuks bindings:

scripts/generate.sh

Build generated files, and watch for new changes:

flutter pub run build_runner watch --delete-conflicting-outputs

Run the app:

flutter run

Community

Join the Nexus Client Matrix Room for questions or help with developing or using Nexus Client.