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
- WiFi Developer Board or Raspberry Pi Pico W with FlipperHTTP Flash: https://github.com/jblanked/FlipperHTTP
- WiFi Access Point
- 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.
v0.2
- Stability Patch
v0.3
- Explore Page
- Friends
v0.4
- Direct Messaging
v0.5
- Improved memory allocation
- Improved Feed Page
- Raspberry Pi Pico W Support
v0.6
- Improved memory allocation
- Fixed bugs in Direct Messaging View
- Fixed bugs in Pre-Save View
v0.7
- Improved User Profile (Bio, friend count, block)
- Improved Explore Page
v0.8
- Create and Post Pixel Art
v1.0
- Official Release
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.
- 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.
- Solution: Restart your Flipper device.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Out of memory when starting the app or after visiting the feed and post views back-to-back.
- Solution: Restart your Flipper device.
- I can no longer access my Direct Messages.
- Solution 1: Uppdate the app to version 0.6.2 (or higher)
- Solution 2: Click the logout button then login again.