I love the app, first and foremost. It’s hands-down the best way to view Lemmy posts, and it feels amazing to scroll and interact with.

When I click a link that opens in a browser, though, it opens without any frame around it and can’t open into any third party apps. I know it may not impact everyone, but for me this is pretty difficult to get around. Some use cases:

  • I clicked the link to view Liftoff! in the Play Store, and I couldn’t click to actually download the app. Sure, I already have this installed, but it could happen for other apps.
  • I was reading an article that I wanted to share externally, but the menu for my browser wasn’t available to share that content.
  • I clicked a YouTube video and wanted to watch it in the official app instead of the browser. There was no way to open the link in another app.

Again, loving the app but this would make it so much cooler!

  • @[email protected]English
    16•1 year ago

    I think they are using chrome browser integrated into the app , I would love to use my own hardened firefox browser that its already install on my phone. This would a great feature to ask.

    • StringEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      there’s an active pull request for opening links in an external app, hopefully it’s in the next release

      • @0x30507DEEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        I tried building that, but it really didn’t want to open anything (suspect it has to do with me not having chrome on my linux machine)

        Ended up cloning v0.9.18 and replacing the bit in lib/url_launcher.dart that opens urls with flutter_custom_tab’s launch, works great (hooray for open-source)

        • StringEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Nice! I love that it’s open source. It’s my favorite lemmy app and I want to contribute soon when I have time.

          • @0x30507DEEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Same. Unfortunately I have exactly 0 experience with mobile app development in general, let alone flutter… Damn, now I gotta learn that

            • StringEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              my experience is making one mobile app in Java, so learning flutter was easy in some aspects, but hard in others. the best benefit though of learning flutter is that there’s one codebase for both ios and android. it’s awesome.

  • Dirk DarklyEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    I would like to echo this sentiment and add that I would like to be able to open in my own browser as it uses ad/script blockers and gives me access to a reader mode.

    Generally having the option to view content outside the app would be a great QoL.

  • @CrackhappyEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    I would like the option to use my own system defined browser instead of integrated into the app please.

  • @nihilist_hippieEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I’m wondering if we’ll get embedded youtube videos in the feed

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    This has been irking me too for multiple reasons. I don’t want my browser within the app. I just want my browser. Same goes for videos. Let us pick what app to use for websites, youtube, images etc etc

    This is something RIF did beautifully.