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.
Looks cool but if it’s not on F-Droid I ain’t using it.
A man/woman of principles
Is your phone 100% un-Googled?
I think Connect looks nicer so I’ve been using it - very excited for Sync for Lemmy though
I am missing the comment collapse option on all apps except gerboa. Hope they fix it.
It’s there with a long press. I missed it too at first.
Thank you so much!! This has been driving me crazy. idk why “long press” just never occurs to me as an option!
on Jerboa it was long press but they fixed it in recent releases. now just press once on the comment and it collapses. i was missing that but now the UX is great
Liftoff has it. Press and hold
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.
Probably depends on your connection and how fast your instance is
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.
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.
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.
Oh wow I haven’t heard of this! Just downloaded it.
Very nice, it has the swipe like funcion.
Thunder is hot! It is making me want to actually try developing in Flutter, which seems to be the “new hotness.”
Oh wow, this one’s awesome. Thanks!
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 🤦♂️
Good feedback! I’ll change the plus icon to something more obvious in the next release.
Any comment re:tracking that others have raised ITT and any plans to open the source code? Loving the UI thus far but like others here would very much prefer FOSS applications
Connect has 0 trackers of any kind and I collect no information beyond what Google Play Store collects by default. When you open up a webpage with the in-app viewer that webpage may run it’s own trackers but I don’t capture any of that data.
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect/latest/
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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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 👍
The community for the app:
I’m also happily using it, it’s the only app which works on my old phone, haha :D
Just downloaded it, exactly what I needed. Thanks!
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.
We are trying to keep an updated list of apps over on the Android community.
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?
Looks like you can.
Thanks for confirming. I am new here and thought others can’t see my comments haha.
