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I'm thinking mobile but keeping the options open

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[-] nachtigall@feddit.de 38 points 1 year ago

Jerboa on Android, Mlem on iOS (as they are both the only options for now)

[-] dukethorion@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] nachtigall@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

You can drop your feedback on !jerboa@lemmy.ml or their Github issues if not already there :)

[-] awdsns@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

I'm now typing this to you from jerboa!

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[-] mate_classic@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

I tried Jerboa and it always crashes a few second after opening it. Web app for me, I guess.

[-] TWeaK@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Mert@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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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[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 year ago

I want the Infinity reddit dev to make a client here. That app is amazing

[-] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 23 points 1 year ago

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 :)

[-] a1studmuffin@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] drdalek13@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] SpooneyOdin@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] CheshireSnake@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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)

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[-] Adda@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] narwhal@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

The webapp is how I do it right now using hermit.

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I've been using Jerboa on Android for a couple days and so far I'm pretty happy with it.

[-] ketcham1009@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Jerboa at the moment, I'm hoping slide gets ported over to lemmy.

[-] Link@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would need to be forked, because I believe Slide was abandoned.

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[-] klemptor@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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).

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[-] cavemeat@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Jeeboa is great, I've been using it and I quite like it.

[-] pineapplelover@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Link@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

It isn't quite there yet, but I think it does have the potential to become a solid app.

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[-] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Trick question, you don't need one for Lemmy since their website is actually functional :)

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[-] Garrathian@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

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:

  1. Install the firefox app from the app store
  2. Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
  3. 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.

[-] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] grafcube@fosstodon.org 9 points 1 year ago

@MyNameIsIgglePiggle I might actually try making a Lemmy client myself. It could help me learn Android development better than whatever my uni is doing.

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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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[-] DudeDad@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Mlem has potential.

A lot of work to be done. Crashes often, upvote button doesn’t always work for me, my favorited communities don’t stick at the top, no alerts, and not sure how to check my last comments or posts.

[-] wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm new to Lemmy as of today but I posted a similar post and it seems that for Android there's really only Jerboa for Lemmy and perhaps nothing for iOS. I'd love for someone to tell me I'm woefully ignorant, though!

[-] m0s3@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

For iOS there ist Mlem in development and available on TestFlight

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[-] SenseiRat@pathfinder.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'm using Jerboa for Android and liking it so far. It doesn't have all of the features I'm used too (used Relay, Baconreader, and Sync in the past) but it seems to be going in the right direction.

[-] fluffman86@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Been struggling with jerboa for a couple days now. Finally realized that while I can log into the website (sometimes), my password is too long for the jerboa. It was 70+ chars, reduced to under 32 and it's working now.

[-] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Interesting, mine is 60+ characters and was fine. Might be a 64 limit

[-] Sowatee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there an api for developers?

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[-] alex@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I like the website as is.

[-] Cock@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Mlem, its the only ios option

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[-] techgearwhips@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmur doesn't login because it's no longer maintained.

Jerboa keeps crashing every time I tried to enter this sub.

So I'm just using it from the mobile web (installed from Fennec as a PWA) for the time being.

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