I’m thinking mobile but keeping the options open
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Jerboa on Android, Mlem on iOS (as they are both the only options for now)
I’m now typing this to you from jerboa!
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I tried Jerboa and it always crashes a few second after opening it. Web app for me, I guess.
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.
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
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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Hah I was mostly joking with the “feature for Germans” thing.
It’s not a feature but a bug, 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
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.
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!
For iOS there ist Mlem in development and available on TestFlight
I’ll give it a go. I know I can make an icon to the web browser shortcut on my home screen but the less friction I have to replacing boost the more i will use it
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.
Mlem, its the only ios option
I want the Infinity reddit dev to make a client here. That app is amazing
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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Jerboa is not well behaved when the api starts taking a long time. Are you guys on an overloaded instance?
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.
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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:
- Install the firefox app from the app store
- Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
- 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.
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
I was having some issues with that server earlier. Opened an account on Lemmy.one and i’ve not had any more issues. They’re just overloaded it seems. Exciting times eh?
Same
@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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Actually i use the progressive web app on mobile and that works like a charm! Unlike Reddit, Lemmys Webinterface is quiet nice. Nevertheless I would love to see some of Reddits 3rd party clients to switch to Lemmy! Like Invidious 🤩
Here’s something that I don’t understand on Lemmy when using the web: whenever I visit a community hosted on a different Lemmy instance, I’m not logged in and can’t subscribe. That appears to be only working in the app (Jerboa).
I think I’m missing something fundamental here, because it’s probably not intended to have dozens of accounts – one at each instance.
that is a downside of the web-version. However you can enter the link in the search bar of end search for the link on your instance.
Is there an api for developers?
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html
I have no experience with developing against these APIs, and so can’t attest to how up to date they are.
The devs though, if you didn’t know, are active here.
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 :)
