Jerboa on Android, Mlem on iOS (as they are both the only options for now)
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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Just trying Jerboa out now. UI buttons are too small and sometimes difficult to see.
Can't hide post replies.
Other than that, seems okay so far.
Edit: Basically I want it to be Infinity for Lemmy.
You can collapse threads with a long press on the comment header (the line with the username, score and timestamp).
The app could definitely use some documentation.
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I tried Jerboa and it always crashes a few second after opening it. Web app for me, I guess.
For me, I find writing comments on Jebora is buggy. If you mistype, then hit backspace to delete, it removes the space between the last two words.
Maybe that's a feature for Germans to combine words, I dunno, but it means you have to do a lot of additional manual editing.
It's on their bug tracker. Apparently an issue with all apps using the Jetpack-Compose toolkit (the recommended way of building new Android apps): https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/194
Just had the same issue while typing up a post of my own, glad I'm not the only one haha
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I want the Infinity reddit dev to make a client here. That app is amazing
Been using Jerboa for Lemmy on Android. No complaints so far. But its early.
Edit: misspelled the app name
Same. I like that it's on F-Droid too
Same here. Only complaint so far is I haven't seen a way to adjust the font yet. I don't like the default one. Seems a bit too big for me.
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Same here. It can definitely be better, but it works for now. No errors so far.
Edit: and just like that it suddenly threw an error. Lol.
It's no reddit is fun (I miss my AMOLED background and simple interface that made navigating quoting linking and collapsing comment threads all such a breeze), but a) it's better than any app I've ever made (I've never made an app), b) it will get better, c) I'll get better at using it (I'm maybe 10 minutes in so far)
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I am an Android user so it's definitely going to be Jerboa for me.
I'm hoping to improve my Jetpack Compose skills so I can contribute more to its development as well :)
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Kinda an odd answer since it doesn't exist yet, but the RedReader dev is considering a Lemmy version once Reddit kills third-party apps at the end of the month. That would be neat to see.
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Alternatively, you can use Lemmy progressive webapp (PWA) installed from your favourite browser. But as already stated, as of now, there are currently only Jerboa, Mlem and this webapp.
The webapp is how I do it right now using hermit.
I'm doing this with Firefox for Android. Since Lemmy doesn't have any advertising or other anti-features, I don't feel any pressing need for a third-party client.
I've been using Jerboa on Android for a couple days and so far I'm pretty happy with it.
Jerboa at the moment, I'm hoping slide gets ported over to lemmy.
I go back and forth between Jerboa and PWA (from Chromium). I find both missing features I really like, but that just might be from the features to which I got accustomed from Slide and Infinity and not features that are must-haves. On Jerboa, the most annoying thing to me is during commenting, where the cursor jumps to somewhere else in the paragraph and deletes a word. It's very annoying. I thought it was my keyboard, so I switched, but nope. Maybe an incompatibility with autocorrect features. Whatever. Lemmy is still growing up, while Reddit is 18.
This is a cop out answer. I tried Jerboa but wasn't a big fan. That may change in the future. But I feel currently the best way to experience Lemmy on your phone is to do the following:
- Install the firefox app from the app store
- Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
- press the 3 dots (where you can view bookmarks, history, etc) and click on "Add to Home screen"
When you click on the Lemmy icon that's added to your home screen on your phone, it will open up the Lemmy web app (seperate from the firefox browser). It works super nice on mobile from my experience so far, and has a sleek design.
After trying jerboa I ended up going this route. I keep getting server errors using the pwa though not sure if lemmy.ml just can't handle the traffic or I'm doing something wrong
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I'm on Android and have been using Jeroba but it's super glitchy. I really hope BaconReader makes an app for Lemmy (someone on reddit suggested it should be called LemonReader and I am all about that suggestion lol).
Jerboa is annoyingly laggy on my phone
@MyNameIsIgglePiggle I might actually try making a Lemmy client myself. It could help me learn Android development better than whatever my uni is doing.
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I'm new to Lemmy as of today but I posted a similar post and it seems that for Android there's really only Jerboa for Lemmy and perhaps nothing for iOS. I'd love for someone to tell me I'm woefully ignorant, though!
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I'm using Jerboa for Android and liking it so far. It doesn't have all of the features I'm used too (used Relay, Baconreader, and Sync in the past) but it seems to be going in the right direction.
Been struggling with jerboa for a couple days now. Finally realized that while I can log into the website (sometimes), my password is too long for the jerboa. It was 70+ chars, reduced to under 32 and it's working now.
Interesting, mine is 60+ characters and was fine. Might be a 64 limit
I like the website as is.
Mlem, its the only ios option
Have to think we will start to see options spring up with any popularity growth with Reddits plans.
Personally I'm hoping some (like the infinity devs) hop on and develop a clone of their apps. If they aren't gonna be developing those anymore then why not?
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Lemmur doesn't login because it's no longer maintained.
Jerboa keeps crashing every time I tried to enter this sub.
So I'm just using it from the mobile web (installed from Fennec as a PWA) for the time being.
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In my brief time with it, I've been impressed pretty impressed by Mlem. Sure, it's not feature complete and a bit buggy in places, but it already feels nice to use
jerboa pretty good so far but hopefully infinity for reddit dev also makes lemmy compatible
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