Clients for Android - What are the options?
Clients for Android - What are the options?
I am using Jerboa. Liking It so far, but wanna see other options.
What are you guys using?
afaik, jerboa's the only option. I actually like the UI for lemmur, but it's abandoned and doesn't seem like anyone's forking + updating it so for the time being, we only have jerboa.
I did see a toolkit that translates reddit API calls to lemmy API calls, which might be useful if any reddit app dev has any interest in translating their app to work for the fediverse, but I'm not sure how likely that is
Jerboa is the only app I'm aware of. I've been using the web UI and hoping Sync eventually materializes.
I've been using jerboa but also hoping the Sync dev makes something for lemmy.
I hope some of the reddit apps migrate to lemmy. I used Infinite, so it would be my preference to see come over.
The Infinity dev stated that they won't be porting the app for Lemmy. The app is open source, though, so anyone can take it over!
I'd love Infinity to be usable for Lemmy as well. Jerboa works, but the Infinity UI and customization options are better in many aspects.
Jerboa's v.0.0.34 alpha version from their GitHub is better than the Play Store release. It's still alpha, of course, so caveat emptor, but it's been pretty stable for me so far. Some features are still missing. Browsing, searching, and joining other communities and instances is still either impossible or very limited on Jerboa. For that, you'd need to do it on the website.
Speaking of using the website, another option is to just install the mobile version of the site as a PWA (just go to Menu > Add to Phone/Home Screen in your mobile browser), or use an app like Hermit to create a standalone version of the mobile site.
Other than those, there are no other native apps for Android that I know of. There was lemmur, but it's no longer being maintained so I can't recommend it.
You can search and join communities from other instances in Jerboa.
Jerboa also has the current build in the F-Droid store.
Most web browsers have an option to make a website into a pseudo app, and I've been using that.
Jerboa has potential and I'm excited to see it mature, but honestly the web app is a better experience atm.
Keep an eye on memmy. It's planning on being cross-platform, but I haven't gotten it to build for android yet.
Not sure why this thread exists when it's the same as what's in the sticky.
Either way, we need more clients.
How do I see the sticky post?
There isnt any choices besides Jerboa or the web app. Lemmur to my understanding is abandoned
Apart from jerboa I use lemmy.ml site in a webapp in hermit
I'm using Lemmy but will switch to sync (previously sync for reddit) once it gets Lemmy support.