Oddbean new post about login | logout For my next school project I’m thinking about doing a simple #nostr client in Kotlin. Is there an easy way to get started? #asknostr
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My colleagues built Nostrino, a Kotlin SDK for Nostr. Though it hasn’t had activity for 6 months and I don’t know what state it’s in. @jem @jm https://github.com/cashapp/nostrino There’s also the Rust SDK, which has bindings to Kotlin. Unsure about its state either. @Yuki Kishimoto https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr Lastly, @Vitor Pamplona might be able to offer some insight on if and how to base your work off Amethyst.
Interesting, is CashApp looking to build a nostr app? If you can say
Not at the moment, that I know of, but there’s a group of us who are Nostr enthusiasts there. @jm and a few others built @Plasma outside work and I believe it uses Nostrino. It looks like the last commit was a few months ago. https://github.com/plasma-social/plasma
You can use quartz from @Vitor Pamplona https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/blob/master/app%2Fbuild.gradle#L72-L75 https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/blob/master/settings.gradle#L14
Quartz is very basic: Just models and the crypto stuff. We are slowing moving things from Amethyst over there. The relay connection management via RelayPools we all use is completely outdated. And I think there will be different relay connection strategies for different apps. It's unclear if there is a way to create a single lib that provides enough flexibility on relay management to make it work for a good number of apps.
Needless to say, just copy whatever you need from Amethyst :)
The Nostr SDK bindings aren't aligned with the rust library yet (some methods/structs aren't exposed), but are ready for use and maintained. Unfortunately aren't available docs/examples for Kotlin (hope soon to include them in the book). https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/io.github.rust-nostr/nostr-sdk