Does anyone else use the android app Connect for Lemmy? It reminds me of Infinity for Reddit. If you use it, do you like it better than Jerboa? I also found another new Lemmy app called Liftoff.
Connect for Lemmy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Anyone else just using whatever is FOSS feom f-droid?
Of course the more apps the merrier, but personally open code = a more trustworthy use for me
Jerboa was the first showing up on F-Droid and so far it’s great: minimalistic, responsive, lightweight (only 2MB or so). Don’t know why so many people are developing apps and not simply joining efforts. Makes me think they’re doing it for the purpose of doing it, and because they’re happy to work on an app and get their software engineering brain occupied by their own little project. But what will happen once this sentiment passes? Who’s gonna maintain these apps? What we need is one robust app everyone is working on together.
I say let them be, there are (or soon were) many different third-party apps for Reddit as well and each has their own niche of users for whom it works just right. Jerboa has plenty of devs working on it, and if in doubt I’ll always prefer having a choice between different apps. Let the free FOSS market decide!
The UI of this app honestly makes be feel a bit braindead at times, the process of finding the drop down necessary to even log in made be feel like I unlocked an easter egg in a point and click adventure game. It could use some more thought considering the backend of it is otherwise very well put together.
haha upvoting because your rant made me laugh
All the apps except connect are open source. I’ve tried jeroba, thunder and liftoff so far and liftoff has been the most robust.
Just tried and it’s much more impressive than Jerboa. No laggy scrolling, UI and UX are nicer. Feels more like RiF.
Only (minor) nitpicks I have are:
dark theme could be darker- I’d prefer the comment form shows as a popup/overlay (like RiF does) so you can kind of glance at the context while commenting
- list view items need more padding and less margin
Jerboa is absolutely not laggy on my side. Find it super responsive and lightweight instead. it’s only 2MB
I’m guessing what they’re referring to is that it waits to fetch the next page of the timeline until relatively “late”. There’s a definite hitch in scrolling for me when it’s fetching more posts.
That said, I’m perfectly satisfied with Jerboa.
true, i do have that same hitch that you describe when it’s fetching more posts. but that’s not too big of an issue for me either. i guess adding a bit of pre-fetching would solve it.
Hmm, I don’t know then. The scrolling is anything but smooth for me.
dark theme could be darker
Try the “Amoled” theme in the settings (remember to click save at the bottom of the page, I initially missed that). It’s a much darker theme on my phone.
Ah! That’s perfect, thanks!
Connect seems cool, but I was using Infinity because it was open source. This one doesn’t seem open source (correct me if I’m wrong) so I’ll stick with Liftoff or Jerboa for now
Thanks for the recommendation of Liftoff! I really didn’t like Jerboa but liftoff seems like a nice app.
The lack of picture downloading got me fucked up lol. I’m interested to see jerbora development and liftoff. Will almost certainly jump ship to sync if its anywhere near the quality of the reddit version
Yeah, just discovered that, woof.
That is a very good point. I just found it by accident a few minutes ago and didn’t even realize that.
I’ve yet to find an app as good as just using the browser
You might like this then, a userscript I made, works on Firefox Android (or probably anything that supports installing userscripts) https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469273-lemmy-universal-link-switcher
Using it right now, and I’m enjoying it so far. I was using jerboa before, but it crashed everytime I clicked on a link for a post or community on another instance, and when I tried to add this account (on programming.dev instance) it would crash instantly.
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Jerboa has been crashing on me lately so I’ve been using Connect while it gets fixed. No complaints so far.
I use it and it’s a lot less buggy than Jerboa. I also like the UI a bit better.
Connect is pretty good. Stil missing some important features, like block, and the instance name is missing from usernames and communities, which is a pretty major oversight, but other than that it’s solid and being developped surprisingly fast.
If I am logged into Lemmy.ml, can I reply in other instances’ posts like in any one of beehaw’s?
I’m using it, Jerboa, and standard mobile site. They each leave something to be desired, but each have their good points. I don’t know why, but Connect seems slower, with images loading slower than the other two. Don’t know why.
I have since discovered https://wefwef.app
It is amazing. Basically an open-source clone of Apollo for reddit.
Interesting site for sure
Won’t even open up on my galaxy fold 4 :(
We are trying to keep an updated list of apps over on the Android community.
I’m missing the ability to collapse threads, but otherwise it’s very sleek Edit: nevermind you just need to hold the top comment for one second
Hi, there’s also a setting to make comments collapse on single tap instead of long press.
Just downloaded it, exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Crashes on startup on my galaxy fold 4
Hi, this will be fixed in the next release (tonight)!
Wow. This app is really nice at first glance. I like the gesture to swipe left on a comment to upvote. Reminds me of Sync for Reddit!
