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Which lemmy app for android do you use and why?

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[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eternity. I used Infinity when I was on Reddit, so its not new to me, and there are features I like about it

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Eternity haven't been updated in 2 months, and 0.19 lemmy update broke some functionality.

https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity/issues

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 10 months ago

I haven't experienced any issues so far but I'll keep an eye out on that link you sent, thanks

[–] bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.eu 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The latest version of Eternity is compatible with Lemmy 0.19. You might need to log out and log back in, though.

However, the new functions aren't implemented yet (e.g. the new sorting methods)

[–] EredYasibu@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ahhh, that's why I can't log into the app through my account

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

You log out, log back in, it should work.

[–] denast@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

For me, logout+login fixed all the issues. I thought it was broken too until I tried last night

[–] pfaca@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

I'm using Voyager until there is an update for Eternity.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thunder is my main app and it's updated regularly as well. Jerboa is my second choice because that's the "official" Lemmy app.

I was a big fan of LiftOff!, unfortunately, the developer had twins back in the summer and understandably, the app hasn't been updated since.

[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just curious, what makes Jerboa the "official" Lemmy app?

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jerboa is created by the developers of Lemmy.

[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago
[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 months ago

Eternity, fork of Infinity which was my reddit app of choice. Also foss obv. Great app.

Also use jerboa and liftoff.

[–] olof@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Jerboa. It ticks all the boxes, is updated, and looks good

[–] MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
  • Eternity, but clicking in an Notification E-Mail on the Lemmy Inbox link, does not open Eternity on the Inbox.
  • Voyager is also fine, but i has strange look on Android, looks more like made for Apple.
  • Jerboa is nice to, but lacks options to change the fonts
  • Sync for Lemmy is nice, but its closed source and has ads (can be removed when you pay enough 20,99€)
  • Some other apps in the Playstore, but most of them are not worth to use them
  • Thunder seems to be nice, but I really miss 'Mark as read on scroll' feature, which is very important for me
  • there is 'Commit for Lemmy' on the play store, most features I want are there but a) its not available on F-Droid and b) crash from time to time
  • 'Boost for Lemmy' looks really nice. I couldn't find a setting for 'Mark as read on scroll'. Maybe it's enabled by default. If that's true, I would keep this app. There is a option to remove ads for 3.59€ which is a fine for me. But I have not seen any ad as of now. Be aware that there are 6 Trackers in this app, but since I use PiHole, it's not really important for me.

Currently im using mostly Eternity and hope that some bugs get sorted out sooner or later. But Boost would be good next candidate, if 'Mark as read on scroll' is supported. Arch f not, the next best alternative is Jerboa.

[–] MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Small update to my list: Boost has no ‘Mark as read on scroll’ feature, only some people reqeusting this. But it seems its not planned as of yet. So i tend to keep Infinity.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

I've kept coming back to Voyager. The main draw is the functionality marking posts read on scroll, hiding read posts, and otherwise being feature complete (nothing broken as far as I can tell, and is keeps up with Lemmy updates).

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Voyager. It's the only one with a "hide posts I've already read" button that I've tried, and any app without that button isn't worth even comparing to.

Oh yeah, there's also an option to make All exclude communities you're subbed to, which makes it way easier to discover new communities.

[–] TheGibberishGuy@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

...there's also an option to make All exclude communities you're subbed to

Damn, today I learnt. I've been using it for several months now and apparently never had a good look through the settings. That's awesome.

[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Thunder has that button

[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago

Voyager is nice. It does look a little weird on android, but it's kind of a nice look, imho

[–] words_number@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

I tried jerboa, voyager (formally known as wefwef) and eternity and settled for voyager. It just feels very smooth, has all the functionality I need and looks clean. No reason to look further for me.

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thunder.
It is simple to use, has elegant design and does absolutely everything I need it to do.

Edit: link: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm currently using jerboa because it's the only one AFAIK that can mark posts as read while scrolling

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use Connect for Lemmy. It's as free, but closed source. The developer is available and fairly responsive in !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

I recommend opting into the beta version on the Playstore to get some features a little earlier. For example, Lemmy 0.19 introduces the new Scaled and Controversial sort options, which are amazing -- particularly Scaled if you're subscribed to smaller communities. However, Connect for Lemmy only has that sort option in the beta at the moment.

The only thing I don't like is that you cannot paste images from the clipboard into comments.

[–] The_Worst@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

That's the only downside of Connect currently. Development is pretty slow. App is mostly working fine but it has a few small annoying bugs.

[–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried a few, started with liftoff.

Liftoff was okay, but UI was not my case

Never get warm with Voyager

Connect was okay

Eternity was pretty good, best IMO for open source

Now I bought Boost and never regret it. Feels best for me

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

I think Boost gets recommended often for good reason. Even if it isn't using existing code, design-wise it likely still would be the furthest developed Lemmy app since he's worked on the Boost for Reddit app for so long.

As of right now, I think it may only be missing specifically hide on read. However it does have mark and dim on read in the settings, and for now the Mute dialogue option is a fine alternative.

Unfortunately it's not FOSS, but it's just a single dev from Portugal and paying for the app removes any tracking present from the ads.

[–] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I use eternity; I havent found something that it struggles with yet. Can anyone here let me know why use decided against eternity? I dont really know its limitations since I've only used it.

[–] kzhe@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't like the colors and ui (material you theme still shows the ugly blue and pink)

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like eternity, but since my instance updated its been pretty bugged out.

[–] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

It throws an api error when I try to up vote or write a comment

[–] Tugboater203@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I use both Sync and Jerboa. Jerboa because it was there first in the great migration, and Sync because it's a nice UI and I wanted to reward the dev for coming over from Reddit.

Edit- funnily enough, I'm posting this on my Kbin account since Beehaw defeded from Lemmy.World

[–] iegod@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sync is the most polished and best looking. But ads so I dunno your call. I like it.

[–] maniel@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

To be frank I've never seen ads on free sync, maybe it's a bug?¯⁠\⁠_⁠ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I'm on IOS and use Thunder, but I know it's cross platform so it should be available in Android as well. Why Thunder? Because it doesn't look like another Apollo clone, which a lot of lemmy apps seem to try to emulate.

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

A combination of Boost for my primary account, and Sync for my alternate(s). I don't need two, but this helps me to better visually separate where I am.

[–] IcyPenguin@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago
[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I've just been using the mobile web UI.

I really like Sync but I've found myself just using my mobile browser to interact with instances when on my phone. Also, if you want open source, Sync ain't it.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

Summit gang represent.

It's basic, it's fairly lightweight, and it does the job.