I’m thinking mobile but keeping the options open
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Jerboa on Android, Mlem on iOS (as they are both the only options for now)
Just trying Jerboa out now. UI buttons are too small and sometimes difficult to see.
Can’t hide post replies.
Other than that, seems okay so far.
Edit: Basically I want it to be Infinity for Lemmy.
You can drop your feedback on !jerboa@lemmy.ml or their Github issues if not already there :)
You can collapse threads with a long press on the comment header (the line with the username, score and timestamp).
The app could definitely use some documentation.
This is helpful, thanks!
100% my thoughts about it, otherwise a beautiful app
I’m now typing this to you from jerboa!
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I tried Jerboa and it always crashes a few second after opening it. Web app for me, I guess.
For me, I find writing comments on Jebora is buggy. If you mistype, then hit backspace to delete, it removes the space between the last two words.
Maybe that’s a feature for Germans to combine words, I dunno, but it means you have to do a lot of additional manual editing.
It’s on their bug tracker. Apparently an issue with all apps using the Jetpack-Compose toolkit (the recommended way of building new Android apps): https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/194
Just had the same issue while typing up a post of my own, glad I’m not the only one haha
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It’s not a feature but a bug, it’s on their bug tracker. Apparently an issue with all apps using the Jetpack-Compose toolkit (the recommended way of building new Android apps): https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/194
Hah I was mostly joking with the “feature for Germans” thing.
Hmm… Mlem isn’t available on the CA App Store yet, it appears. Web app it is for now.
Yeah only on testflight currently
currently mlem just straight up doesn’t work for me. infinite loading, does login though.
Have you subscribed to something? Default filter is subscriptions, you can change in on top. Confused me at first.
oh!!! thank you, I see now. oh what an interesting interface, having full text lol. time to look around.
Haha I had the same brain fart for a minute too. Then i realized it was trying to infinitely load my non existent subscriptions.
I want the Infinity reddit dev to make a client here. That app is amazing
Kinda an odd answer since it doesn’t exist yet, but the RedReader dev is considering a Lemmy version once Reddit kills third-party apps at the end of the month. That would be neat to see.
Oh damn, that would be really cool
I am an Android user so it’s definitely going to be Jerboa for me.
I’m hoping to improve my Jetpack Compose skills so I can contribute more to its development as well :)
Yeah this is what I’ve been doing, have made a few simple PRs already to enhance the themes a bit! Never worked with Jetpack Compose before, but Google sure does the trick.
Make sure you grab the latest beta of Android Studio (not the default stable one it suggests), and connect your Github account once it’s installed. The emulator works really well for testing, no phone needed. Makes it super quick to get up and running and start submitting fixes.
Make sure you grab the latest beta of Android Studio (not the default stable one it suggests)
I’m definitely more accustomed to running the beta branch of Studio (especially now, as it contains the New UI from IntelliJ which I got used to a bit ago haha)!
I’m doing the same thing. I haven’t written kotlin or jetpack compose code before, but I was able to fix a minor bug that affected pre-login. Hopefully I’ll be able to find ways to contribute more.
Been using Jerboa for Lemmy on Android. No complaints so far. But its early.
Edit: misspelled the app name
Same. I like that it’s on F-Droid too
Same here. Only complaint so far is I haven’t seen a way to adjust the font yet. I don’t like the default one. Seems a bit too big for me.
On the main screen open the menu top left, settings, look and feel. You can scale the font size down. Agreed the default was just a hair too big.
It does, it is also early. Hopefully it stays updated!
Same here. It can definitely be better, but it works for now. No errors so far.
Edit: and just like that it suddenly threw an error. Lol.
It’s no reddit is fun (I miss my AMOLED background and simple interface that made navigating quoting linking and collapsing comment threads all such a breeze), but a) it’s better than any app I’ve ever made (I’ve never made an app), b) it will get better, c) I’ll get better at using it (I’m maybe 10 minutes in so far)
I completely agree. I use Joey myself (no particular reason - I just got pretty confortable with it). My only problem now is I keep getting timeouts. It could be my connection, though.
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On fdroid, which imo should be the main place if not only one people get their apps from, you can also find lemmur, I don’t know if it’s good though.
Lemmur was pretty good, but it’s since been abandoned.
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Nah don’t, I realized after posting that it has not being maintained for a loooong time.
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Jerboa was crashing on most actions for me, but the newest alpha on GitHub has significantly improved the experience.
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Yeah, I’ve been bouncing between this and the PWA. Might be time to brush up on my git skills and start making PRs for Jerboa.
Alternatively, you can use Lemmy progressive webapp (PWA) installed from your favourite browser. But as already stated, as of now, there are currently only Jerboa, Mlem and this webapp.
The webapp is how I do it right now using hermit.
I’m doing this with Firefox for Android. Since Lemmy doesn’t have any advertising or other anti-features, I don’t feel any pressing need for a third-party client.
Jeeboa is great, I’ve been using it and I quite like it.
Jerboa kinda sucks imo, there is no search feature as of yet. Sometimes it also logs me out of my account, however, it is stable so far so it has that going for it.
It isn’t quite there yet, but I think it does have the potential to become a solid app.
Via the “three horizontal exclamation marks” button on the bottom action bar you can search globally for communities, not only ones you’ve subscribed, if that’s what you mean.
If you mean full text search, idk if Lemmy even has that.
I’ve been using Jerboa on Android for a couple days and so far I’m pretty happy with it.
Jerboa at the moment, I’m hoping slide gets ported over to lemmy.
It would need to be forked, because I believe Slide was abandoned.
Yup. It’s too bad. I love that app. Oddly, more than Infinity (though I use it, too).
I’m on Android and have been using Jeroba but it’s super glitchy. I really hope BaconReader makes an app for Lemmy (someone on reddit suggested it should be called LemonReader and I am all about that suggestion lol).
Jerboa is annoyingly laggy on my phone
Trick question, you don’t need one for Lemmy since their website is actually functional :)
Jeroba works, lemmur won’t log in for some reason
Lemmur is discontinued
Oh, that’s why I couldn’t get it to work
That’s a shame because it already looks better than the Jerboa app and has a better name.
This is a cop out answer. I tried Jerboa but wasn’t a big fan. That may change in the future. But I feel currently the best way to experience Lemmy on your phone is to do the following:
- Install the firefox app from the app store
- Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
- press the 3 dots (where you can view bookmarks, history, etc) and click on “Add to Home screen”
When you click on the Lemmy icon that’s added to your home screen on your phone, it will open up the Lemmy web app (seperate from the firefox browser). It works super nice on mobile from my experience so far, and has a sleek design.
After trying jerboa I ended up going this route. I keep getting server errors using the pwa though not sure if lemmy.ml just can’t handle the traffic or I’m doing something wrong
I was having some issues with that server earlier. Opened an account on Lemmy.one and i’ve not had any more issues. They’re just overloaded it seems. Exciting times eh?
I go back and forth between Jerboa and PWA (from Chromium). I find both missing features I really like, but that just might be from the features to which I got accustomed from Slide and Infinity and not features that are must-haves. On Jerboa, the most annoying thing to me is during commenting, where the cursor jumps to somewhere else in the paragraph and deletes a word. It’s very annoying. I thought it was my keyboard, so I switched, but nope. Maybe an incompatibility with autocorrect features. Whatever. Lemmy is still growing up, while Reddit is 18.
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Hasn’t logged me out… Yet… I guess time will tell haha
Honestly, I prefer it, with its issues, over the stock Reddit app.
Jerboa is not well behaved when the api starts taking a long time. Are you guys on an overloaded instance?
@MyNameIsIgglePiggle I might actually try making a Lemmy client myself. It could help me learn Android development better than whatever my uni is doing.
If you ever decide to do that, sign me up for some dev time. I currently mainly work with Qt and C++, but want to learn eg. flutter. Know Rust, Go and Java and a few frameworks around there. Frontend I did some angular and react in the past. For now I’d be able to invest something like 10 hrs per week.
Sure thing! Although, I won’t start working on it anytime soon. I’m too busy with irl stuff as well as my other ambitious project (I should probably advertise it more but I want to have it in a more usable state before I do that).
I’ll most likely build the app with Kotlin since that’s the only way I know to make Android apps (afaict Rust isn’t really an option for Android anyway).
Oh flutter is with dart, not Rust. I was just giving a bit of my profile to talk a bit about my interests / background.
Kotlin is cool, but let me know if you change your mind about flutter. Though it is backed by Google, it does seem like it is gaining some momentum also among the FOSS communities, and it has the added bonus that the app can then be deployed on Android and iOS (or even desktop / web).
Hmm. I might consider flutter then, since the only reason I picked kotlin is because I’m learning it in uni and i cant use rust to make android apps. Well, I’ll think about it whenever I actually decide to start. If rust were an option to make native android apps I would have picked it immediately 😄
