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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!
All the apps except connect are open source. I've tried jeroba, thunder and liftoff so far and liftoff has been the most robust.
I think Connect looks nicer so I've been using it - very excited for Sync for Lemmy though
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:
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.
I am missing the comment collapse option on all apps except gerboa. Hope they fix it.
Thunder has been the most featured for me so far. It does collapse by time, and i am also able to subscribe to communities from new instances following the !community@instance.tld formatting.
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.
Looks cool but if it's not on F-Droid I ain't using it.
A man/woman of principles
I tried it and didn't think it was much different from any other Lemmy app right now. Seems like they are only trying to differentiate with visuals at the moment.
Some things I would like to see in future apps and versions of existing apps.
This app looks really good. It looks almost exactly how I have my kbin account set up with scripts in a browser, and the gestures are very nice. - I hope it adds kbin support or one of the kbin apps ends up looking like this or better.
Using it to make this answer, and loving it Jerboa just keeps crashing instantly for me (android 12, Fairphone 4). Not sure why. But connect has just worked out of the box.
Using Connect because Jerboa just kept crashing on me at startup. Never got to test it out. Problems do exist in Connect, as e.g. I could not comment on this post in the app. Will check out Thunder and Lift off as well, so thanks for the suggestions!
Edit: I literally just found out that you have to hit the huge plus-button at the bottom right to add a comment.. I always thought it was for creating a new post 🤦♂️
Interesting, I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy, is this one open source?
No, I dont think it is unfortunately. Another commenter said it was full of trackers, although I have not verified that. I didn't realize that when I made the post
I'm glad to see apps being made for Lemmy, but being open source for me is a must.
Jerboa has been crashing on me lately so I've been using Connect while it gets fixed. No complaints so far.
Have you tried thunder? Super slick UI, if minimalism is your thing, but also WIP.
Oh wow I haven't heard of this! Just downloaded it.
Wow, this is actually awesome. I've been using Jerboa for a couple of weeks now, but Thunder feels much more inline with what a was hoping for. Good lookin out man.
Edit: precompiled APK download link so I don't have to do it myself is very appreciated.
Same here, Jerboa won't even open on my phone without crashing. :/ Connect for Lemmy has all the basic functionality down, so it's okay to use.
Feels and looks good for my instance 'lemmy.fmhy.ml' on the web mode. Gestures and actions come second nature almost like, I like it.
Upvoting this post from Connect for Lemmy. Actually I think I still prefer Jerboa. Unfortunately it has stopped working since I updated my instance to 0.18 so this will have to do for now.
Yeah I prefer the look and feel of Jerboa. It's working fine for me now but I have experienced some glitches in the past.
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
The community for the app:
I'm also happily using it, it's the only app which works on my old phone, haha :D
Worth noting that the Jerboa app pushed a major update today and it's massively improved. Definitely suggest giving it another try after today, it feels like an entirely new app.
I'll be honest, don't notice many changes? Feels and looks the same to me.
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.
Aurora Store is working for you? I always get the Oops, This Account is rate limited no matter how much new sessions I request. The main screen seems to be loading though so idk.
Good... Good... Let the app wars begin.
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.
Just downloaded it, exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Only just found Connect and its very good IMO
I tried to sign up on lemm.ee with Jerboa and it would give me constant server error messages...but Connect is great so far. Like the layout better as well 👍