I tried one called Lemmur that I downloaded off F-Droid, however, it can not find this instance (lemmy.world). I want one that’s open-source, and preferably from F-Droid (because screw Google). Which one do you guys use?
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Wefwef is my top choice right now and Connect is my second favorite.
Wefwef looks too iOS for my Material You Android
Yeah, I do agree that it feels a little out of place on Android, but currently I have been using it because it still feels polished and I haven’t had many bugs with it. Lemmy clients in general are in their early days and many are quite rough around the edges. I’ve had a lot of bugs with most of them.
Connect for Lemmy has a Material You style to it and feels like at home on Android. It uses your current Material color scheme and feels a bit similar to Sync for Reddit.
using it right now on Android and while it’s alright for a PWA, it’s still a PWA.
Would much rather a smoother experience of a native app without the jank.
I tried several and found wefwef to be there best
Connect for Lemmy works well for me.
I’m also using connect. I find the searching for communities to be terrible and a couple of other issues, but the bread and butter of reading posts, comments, commenting is very comfortable. I’d recommend it too right now.
Comfortable is the best way to describe it. I think it’s very similar in function and design to sync, which makes it very easy to use while waiting for Sync for Lemmy
Also used sync, maybe that’s why it feels nice to me too
I’m actually finding the experience in Chrome browser to be pretty good.
Definately waiting on Sync though.
Yeah, searching/ subscribing is a pain. I also would like a feature to be able to copy just a link on long press like there was with RiF. I really, badly miss RiF.
I didn’t realize how amazing that feature was until I tried other 3rd party apps. RIF was very solid, only wish it had swipe gestures for navigating.
Connect has some good features, like subscription Favorites, Filters (excluding posts containing filter words), Sort defaults for comments and posts, Text size for comments and posts, and Comment dividers. The developer is active and responsive on the https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect community. The app is available on Google Play, and is not currently Open Source.
Agree. As someone coming from Sync, Connect is the most familiar, intuitive app I’ve tried. It’s a solid start
Connect is really great.
Doesn’t seem to be open source though, for those who value that kinda thing.
I’ve been using Connect and just found “Hide read” and “Mark as read on scroll past” in the settings. Those were the last bugbears I had. Loving it so far
Using Jerboa and waiting for sync for Lemmy to come out.
Wefwef
The iOS theme feels weird to use on Android though, I would love a Material Design 3 version of it. I already looked into creating one, but it’s a lot or work
Definitely enjoying wefwef, haven’t opened Jerboa in a while now
Absolutely this.
I’ve used Jerboa and it was decent, but really lacked consistency or a ui that worked.
Wefwef and connect are my two favorites at the moment.
Liftoff! Is superb. I don’t have any complaints about it. My only gripe is finding the same content repeatedly. I just need to subscribe to more communities probably
Wefwef has a web based app that works better than a lot of clients I tried on android.
I’m currently on Jerboa but I’m going to switch to boost as soon as it’s available
Connect for lemmy has gotten better now that i can hide posts without interacting with them.
As someone who has 6 lemmy apps installed, and constantly cycling between them, I’d say for now connect and liftoff are the best although each has issues that the other migitates. I’d say you won’t go wrong with either option, with it mostly being personal preference.
As a former user of infinity for reddit connect feels a bit closer layout to what I was used to, but liftoff seems to have a slightly better ui.
Connect is doing awesome!
Have you checked out Infinity for Everything?
Yes, but I have no clue how to use it, lmao
Yeah, that’s on me as I’m still working out the documentation. Essentially you prepend any user or community with the service you are attempting to hit up, so to view posts from
androidyou would navigate tolemmy:android.world.Feel free to reach out with any other questions!
I did this for several days/updates and then settled on Jerboa.
I’ve been using Jerboa and Liftoff, as the combination of both has what I’m looking for (Liftoff has an option to see feeds from other instances without having to log in), but most of the time I use Jerboa
Thank you everybody! I ended up getting Jerboa, since it’s available on F-Droid. It seems to work pretty well. I’ll be trying all your other suggestions out as well.
From a productivity POV, Jerboa is the most developed & is built with one of the most secure languages (Kotlin) but from a security & privacy perspective browser (Eg. Mull-Fenix) is best suited, the constant login may be annoying but as long as you use a password manager it shouldn’t be a hassle.
Nevertheless recommend downloading the update from the GitHub repository & use an RSS feed to constantly check for any development.
F-Droid has the tendency to take time to update the apps.Regarding the RSS feed you need to generate one since GitHub doesn’t make it easy with the type of link they used, Feedless (FOSS) will help with that.
As long as the app is storing the auth token received from the lemmy instance securely it makes no difference whether you login once or multiple times.
Use Obtainium. Much better than F-Droid when it comes to apps like these that are constantly being updated.
Relevant discussion: https://lemmy.one/post/392829
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I’m new to Lemmy, but so far the client that I liked the most is wefwef.app which i am using right now
It’s not really an app, but a web-app, but it still works
(Sorry for my English, I’m not a native speaker)
I’ll second http://wefwef.app. It follows iOS design but you can use it on any device that supports PWA including Android.
Yeah it’s a little odd using it on android due to the iOS design, and for some reason the framerate of navigating around is very low/choppy for me. Not sure if webapps have limitations that way but otherwise it’s a great app.
I haven’t used a PWA as regularly as i have wefwef, so I don’t know, but i read somewhere that the browser you use makes a difference.
Your English is fine dude
oh, thanks
Jerboa is my favorite right now, but I’ll be buying Sync as soon as it’s available.
