It’s awesome to see Lemmy getting lots of love, and choice in the mobile app space is great for everyone. But some part of me also kind of wishes that rather than spreading so much development effort out over so many mobile apps, that more developers would jump in and contribute to polishing up the official open source Lemmy mobile app, Jerboa. I can’t help but feel that it would be nice to see a focused effort somewhere in bringing that one in particular up to snuff, as a sort of “reference” app. And have a few others floating around out there just for some diversity and testing innovative ideas.
I really like Jerboa. I’m getting a server version vs. app version pop-up at launch and the odd crash when making a comment or saving a post, but I enjoy the UX a lot issues aside. The list view is 🤌
You’re seeing that toast about versions since backend version 0.18.0 switched away from using a websockets-based API to a REST API, and the Jerboa client app is (in a not-so-descriptive way) warning you that the backend you are connected to isn’t aligned with the app version in terms of what it expects of the backed. This should go away pretty soon as more servers update their backend version and the Jerboa app update hits more devices.
My understanding is that Lemmur does not work with current Lemmy instances. Could be wrong. Just my understanding. I did try it but could not figure out how to set it to Beehaw for example. Not sure.
I agree, somewhat, with your sentiment. However, the ‘best’ (I know that’s subjective) apps will arise from a number of factors. My gut tells me that volunteer devs will flock to the repositories where people are enjoying themselves the most.
Oh yeah for sure. It’s just a matter of time. Out of all of these options, some will just fade away (some already have within weeks of initial release), and some will remain and just continue to get better as the development community continues to get a better picture of where all of the action is, and starts to want to be a part of it.
No problem, hopefully 0.18.1 comes out soon as most the instances that haven’t upgraded to 0.18 are saying they’ll update to that version when it drops.
Web based PWAs should not be underestimated in this space. Mastodon has a similarly awesome PWA in elk.
Because of the tech involved they seem to be able to develop faster while giving you pretty good performance.
As lemmy has a hard separation between its backend and front end, it’s be cool to see alterntive front ends become more integrated with the mainline deployment. That is, it’d be nice if in settings I could select from a range of front ends, even ones that are acknowledged as experimental third party front ends without any guarantees.
My absolute favorite is https://wefwef.app/ . It’s a simple PWA and it feels just as good as a full app and has a better feature set than other clients for iOS.
Yeah this one is surprisingly good. My only issue, which is a deal breaker, is that I can’t swipe from left edge to right to go back to the posts feed after clicking on a specific post. The back button is at the furthest possible placement from my thumb, so it’s just not that useable.
It hasn’t. The original author decided to back away from the project, and the remaining team members are keeping it going. The original TestFlight got closed, but there’s a new one up now, and changes are progressing.
Switched from Jerboa to Liftoff and I’m very happy with Liftoff so far. Liftoff feels very similar to the Reddit client Infinity for me. Only thing I don’t like is the color scheme. It’s confusing to make buttons you can click grey…
I’ve been trying out Summit on Android - it’s impressively very slick so far.
Well okay I may or may not be trying out all of the ones I’ve come across (I need a folder for them at this point) but Summit didn’t look to be mentioned here, so I figured I’d cast my vote!
Just loaded the testflight of Memmy (thanks to your post) and man, loving it so much so far. It perfectly compliments the site, at least for basic browsing (I haven’t tried posting anything other than comments).
I tried for way too long tonight to try and build memmy for Android to check it out. Couldn’t get it to run unfortunately. I’ll probably wait until there is a prebuilt apk to download
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It’s awesome to see Lemmy getting lots of love, and choice in the mobile app space is great for everyone. But some part of me also kind of wishes that rather than spreading so much development effort out over so many mobile apps, that more developers would jump in and contribute to polishing up the official open source Lemmy mobile app, Jerboa. I can’t help but feel that it would be nice to see a focused effort somewhere in bringing that one in particular up to snuff, as a sort of “reference” app. And have a few others floating around out there just for some diversity and testing innovative ideas.
Maybe it’s already that way, I don’t know.
Developers all have their pet frameworks they want to use. Why contribute to a Kotlin app when I can finally learn Dart and Flutter??
I really like Jerboa. I’m getting a server version vs. app version pop-up at launch and the odd crash when making a comment or saving a post, but I enjoy the UX a lot issues aside. The list view is 🤌
You’re seeing that toast about versions since backend version 0.18.0 switched away from using a websockets-based API to a REST API, and the Jerboa client app is (in a not-so-descriptive way) warning you that the backend you are connected to isn’t aligned with the app version in terms of what it expects of the backed. This should go away pretty soon as more servers update their backend version and the Jerboa app update hits more devices.
Cool, no prob. Thank you for explaining 👍 will be worth the wait.
Link to f-droid page for Jeroba: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jerboa/
Similarly, Lemmur: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.krawieck.lemmur/
The Lemmur github says the project is abandoned.
Oops :)
Looks like liftoff is a fork of Lemmur and the development is continuing.
The glory of FOSS! :)
My understanding is that Lemmur does not work with current Lemmy instances. Could be wrong. Just my understanding. I did try it but could not figure out how to set it to Beehaw for example. Not sure.
I agree, somewhat, with your sentiment. However, the ‘best’ (I know that’s subjective) apps will arise from a number of factors. My gut tells me that volunteer devs will flock to the repositories where people are enjoying themselves the most.
Oh yeah for sure. It’s just a matter of time. Out of all of these options, some will just fade away (some already have within weeks of initial release), and some will remain and just continue to get better as the development community continues to get a better picture of where all of the action is, and starts to want to be a part of it.
Connect for Lemmy works well for me where Jerboa returns a server error
Jerboa made the minimum supportes instance version 0.18, unfortunately the largest instances are still on 0.17 due to captcha reasons.
Ahh, well that explains it…many thanks for the info
No problem, hopefully 0.18.1 comes out soon as most the instances that haven’t upgraded to 0.18 are saying they’ll update to that version when it drops.
https://wefwef.app is actually insane even though it’s a PWA. It’s really really good
Are you able to sort comments? I can’t seem to see the option anywheres
Yeah this has not been implemented yet
for me, Jerboa is the most complete followed by Lift Off, third is Connect for lemmy.
I also cannot find some of the site features with wefwef.
Web based PWAs should not be underestimated in this space. Mastodon has a similarly awesome PWA in elk.
Because of the tech involved they seem to be able to develop faster while giving you pretty good performance.
As lemmy has a hard separation between its backend and front end, it’s be cool to see alterntive front ends become more integrated with the mainline deployment. That is, it’d be nice if in settings I could select from a range of front ends, even ones that are acknowledged as experimental third party front ends without any guarantees.
There’s no small card / compact mode though, right? That’s the only thing preventing me from using this as my main Lemmy app.
My absolute favorite is https://wefwef.app/ . It’s a simple PWA and it feels just as good as a full app and has a better feature set than other clients for iOS.
Yeah this one is surprisingly good. My only issue, which is a deal breaker, is that I can’t swipe from left edge to right to go back to the posts feed after clicking on a specific post. The back button is at the furthest possible placement from my thumb, so it’s just not that useable.
Works just fine for me. Which device are you on?
Ah, it’s working now. I’m guessing just a bug or something whoops.
It’s almost bizarre to me how fully featured and polished wefwef.app is. Really amazing.
Mlem has been discontinued
It hasn’t. The original author decided to back away from the project, and the remaining team members are keeping it going. The original TestFlight got closed, but there’s a new one up now, and changes are progressing.
Switched from Jerboa to Liftoff and I’m very happy with Liftoff so far. Liftoff feels very similar to the Reddit client Infinity for me. Only thing I don’t like is the color scheme. It’s confusing to make buttons you can click grey…
My main issue with Liftoff is that I can’t save images. That’s a huge deal breaker for me
Sync for Lemmy is comin’
I’m currently using Liftoff and it is soo much better than Jerboa. It lacks a few features still but jerboa was wayy to buggy for me to use
I’m using lift off and happy with it so far.
I’ve been trying out Summit on Android - it’s impressively very slick so far.
Well okay I may or may not be trying out all of the ones I’ve come across (I need a folder for them at this point) but Summit didn’t look to be mentioned here, so I figured I’d cast my vote!
I was using Jerboa. But I switched to Summit just today. It’s a lot sleeker. It feels closer to RIF. But it doesn’t show a way to save posts/comments.
Also, neither one has a way to search for keywords.
Jerboa actually got another update today which resolved the bug issues I had with the previous update.
Just loaded the testflight of Memmy (thanks to your post) and man, loving it so much so far. It perfectly compliments the site, at least for basic browsing (I haven’t tried posting anything other than comments).
Don’t forget to try Mlem as well…I’m using both and they are very close.
Memmy is working great on my iPhone. :)
I just use the kbin mobile site as a PWA, works great.
Is there collapsible comments yet? There wasn’t when I tried (or I couldn’t find it) and that’s a deal breaker for me.
Not officially yet, I use this script to add the functionality: https://kbin.social/m/kbinStyles/t/27201/kbin-enhancement-script-QOL-updates-for-the-kbin-UI
I tried for way too long tonight to try and build memmy for Android to check it out. Couldn’t get it to run unfortunately. I’ll probably wait until there is a prebuilt apk to download