Astra

A GTK 4 Bluesky client for Linux

Warning

This project is still early in development and is not ready for daily use.

🛣️ Roadmap

• Login
  • Credential storage
• Timeline
  • Avatar
  • Text
  • Image
    • One image
    • Group of images
    • Full screen image viewer
  • Video
  • Embedded Link
  • Likes Indicator
    • Submit like
  • Repost Indicator
    • Submit repost
  • Quote post
  • View Replies
  • Change feeds
    • Pinned feeds
    • Manage all feeds
  • Create a post
  • Searching
  • Notifications
  • Messages
  • Translations
• Other
  • Change provider

See open issues for further detail.

🚚 Building from source using Flatpak

To build and run the application as a Flatpak, ensure you have "flatpak-builder" installed on your system before executing the following comands from the root directory of this repository.

# 1) Copy and save the dotnet NuGet sources generator script flatpak-dotnet-generator.py from the Flatpak Builder Tools repository
wget -P ~/src https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder-tools/master/dotnet/flatpak-dotnet-generator.py
# 2) Run the script to generate the NuGet sources file
python3 ~/src/flatpak-dotnet-generator.py --dotnet 8 --freedesktop 24.08 nuget-sources.json ~/src/Astra/Astra/Astra.Gtk/Astra.Gtk.csproj
# 3) Install dependencies from flatpak
flatpak-builder build-dir --user --install-deps-from=flathub --download-only io.github.lukearran.astra.yml
# 4) Build and install using Flatpak builder
flatpak-builder build-dir --user --force-clean --install --repo=repo io.github.lukearran.astra.yml
# 5) Run the installed flatpak application
flatpak run io.github.lukearran.astra.yml

🛠️ Building from source

1. Prerequisites

• .NET SDK 8.0
• Blueprint Compiler

2. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/lukearran/Astra

This will create a local copy of the repository.

3. Build the project

To build Astra for development, run the following command:

dotnet run --project Astra/Astra.Gtk

🙋 Contributing

Want to contribute to this project? Let me know with an issue that communicates your intent to create a pull request.

⚖️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE.md file for in the root directory for details.

😇 Acknowledgements

Astra uses the following libraries:

• FishyFlip
• Gir.Core
• Blueprint
• DBus.Services.Secrets