Looking for a Jerboa alternative that wont be affected by the non-anonymous Google dev bullshit. I cant hop over to graphene or any other OS for that matter for reasons I wont get into. Getting my shit up and running on Jerboa was a hassle so Id like to figure out which lemmy apps will be viable for the future on basic boy androidOS.
Edit: added the app alert this morning as an image
Your approach is wrong.
You change apps because the devs don’t want to bow to Google, while it’s the opposite that needs to be done.
Just set your phone to skip this “verification” bullshit, in this way Google can see from the telemetry that the 0.01% of users disagree with their policy
How do you disable this verification?
Google is going to push an update that will automatically install without consent or permission to all android devices and after the install, the disable toggle will appear buried in the settings, somewhere in developer settings
Blorp dev here! We have
- Multi account support, better than any other client imo
- Login with Lemmy and PieFed
- Save post drafts, finish later
- Create piefed poll posts
- PieFed emoji reactions
- Some fun themes and easter eggs
- Great nsfw browsing, if that’s your thing
- And much more
iOS | FDroid | Google Play | Source Code
Spell check on aisle 3!
What separates your multi account support from other apps’ offerings?
I moved off jerboa onto connect for Lemmy
Serves me well, although development slowed for a bit
I just switched off of Connect and miss it…but the bugs were too much to bear.
Off the top of my head:
-Inbox is empty despite getting a reply
-your profile doesn’t update. The reason I know this is because when I got replies, I had to go into my profile and find the comment someone replied to
-editing text freaks out sometimes and selects half the comment with no way to adjust one of the selection handles
Usually a complete uninstall/reinstall fixed it but…I’m not gonna do every time for a Lemmy app.
I switched to Voyager and there’s one missing feature that makes me want to find a new one: you have to go INTO a community to block it. So when c/dudesjackingoff shows up up on All, I have to click on the community and see more dudes jacking off in order to stop seeing dudes jacking off.
The connect dev actually added that feature when I requested it years ago so maybe the Voyager devs will, too
I noticed the profile refresh bug a while ago and raised it. It hasn’t been a problem for me for a while so I thought it was resolved. I know the dev disappeared for a few months but turned up again recently
Can’t say I noticed u/dudesjackingoff on /all though. To each their own I guess
Haha if you want a real example, I recently blocked a makeup fetish and a furry feet community.
Maybe I’ll check it out again. I switched while the dev was MIA.
I thought you could still install apps from other app stores if you just enabled the setting and wait a cooldown period like 1 day? Maybe they changed the policy though not sure
Any reason why you can’t just use one of the many, many web-based apps and “install” it? Photon, Alexandrite, Tesseract, Voyager, and many more all let you “install” them to your home screen. They run in your phone’s web browser but don’t have the address bar and work full screen and basically look/act like native apps.
shout-out to Voyager! installed as a PWA and it’s solid as hell
Blorp dev here. We got great support for web and iOS/Android. Though admittedly, the PWA install could use a little improvement. But the more Android becomes an issue, the more I’ll work on improving the PWA.
Nice. Only omitted that one because I hadn’t heard of it. I like to switch apps every so often so will check it out.
Personally, I am using Summit (installed with Obtainium, it is not available in F-Droid)
I find that it works quite well and has a very nice user interface! Pretty customisable too.
edit: Forgot to add, yes, Summit can be installed through the Google Play Store.
I mean, yeah, but OP is specifically asking because Jerboa is not on Playstore and may not be installable if Google really follows through not allowing to install anything outside Playstore.
Which maybe still is possible but we will only know when we are there.
Summit can be installed through the Google Play Store as well. Forgot to add that, sorry!
Oh! I actually didn’t know, thanks for pointing it out. I am also getting it via Obtainium.
Summit is the GOAT, and that is no easy feat as most of the Lemmy apps are great.
GrapheneOS
I use Eternity. It hasn’t been getting a lot of development, but it doesn’t really need anything that I’m aware of.
If I were picking one that’s getting a lot of development, I’d probably look at Interstellar. It’s less mature — it’s not a port of a Reddit app — but it works with all of Mbin/Lemmy/Piefed. I use it when I want to talk to a Piefed server from an Android device.
Eternity has not gotten any update for almost 2 years now, it is dead. I wouldn’t trust the app, but consider it an security risk. I feel very sorry as I have been a huge Infinity fan in the good old times, but I’d recommend you to switch. Voyager is a fine replacement for Eternity.
I might be wrong, but as far as I heard, any APK installed will have to go through Google’s dev verification.
Not anymore. After public outcry, Google established 2 alternatives:
- Through developer mode, you will be able to “forego security” (according to Google) and do a lengthy and obnoxious procedure to unlock your phone for installing any app.
- They’re defining a way for official (sanctioned by Google) 3rd party app stores to work, and you will be able to install apps verified by them, instead of Google.
Summit is great.
- Swipe can be configured to do lots on posts and comments (upvote, downvote, reply, other stuff I don’t use)
- Configurable feed appearance. Can be customized per account.
- Apparently does PieFed stuff. At least logs in, I haven’t used more features than that.
- It’s pretty.
Yes, but: if you use the app, they now feature a dialog telling you that Google forces developers to register and send over personal data for their identification. The jerboa devs say they won’t do it, so it’s just a matter of time until the app gets pulled from the play store by Google.
For accuracy, it will stay on the store. Devices that are “certified” will be unable to find it on the store or install it via the store.
As a result I think the devs will stop pushing it there, but it will still be there for devices that Google isn’t worried about.
