Looking for the best FOSS android app for Lemmy.

  • fᵣₑfᵢ
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    4510 months ago

    I use Eternity because I heavily used Infinity, the Reddit app that it’s forked from

    • @Tangent5280
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      310 months ago

      There are a hundred little things that grind my gears with eternity though. Trying to work through them without switching for now.

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      Voyager is way more popular, but I don’t like it’s iOS-like UI, so I went with Thunder

    • @[email protected]
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      910 months ago

      Just downloaded Eternity after using Jerboa for a while. This is so much better, even more so since I used Infinity for reddit.

  • Fox Trenton
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    1210 months ago

    As some others, I use Jerboa. Tried a few others, but happy with it.

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    10 months ago

    My top choices:

    • Jerboa and Eternity are native Android apps (the first uses modern technologies like Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, the second one has a lot of Java code and the UI is made with XML layouts for activities/fragments);
    • Voyager is portable web app built with React in Typescript, with mobile flavours made using Ionic capacitor;
    • Thunder is a cross-platform app built with Flutter in Dart (like Liftoff and Lemmur were in their days);
    • there are other FOSS apps like Combustibile (native/Java+XML) or Muffed (Flutter)…
    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      I just want one that opens the lemmy links properly when I click on them from within in posts. I have all links selected in open default apps.

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        10 months ago

        That’s an interesting point… Jerboa should handle Lemmy handles correctly in the form !element@host.

        Also hyperlinks in the form of https://host/u/name (or https://host/c/name) are intercepted and opened in app.

        I’m not its maintainer but I read its source code and IIRC those cases are handled…

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      Ive only used jebora. Till I saw this one in a few posts. Kinda digging it. Its a tad more “modern” feeling. I guess. Thanks.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        No problem. I liked it initially for the modern feeling too and then came to enjoy the gesture based controls

  • @0oWow
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    910 months ago

    Summit is what I use.

  • xiao
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    810 months ago

    Jerboa with Dracula theme of course.

  • Southern Wolf
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    610 months ago

    Voyager is absolutely fantastic, even as a PWA. Eternity is very competent too, especially if you are/were an Infinity for Reddit user.