Whys everyone obsessed with apps? Mobile browser works.
it has some overflow problems, and doesn’t look as good as a native app.
Whats an overflow problem?
TL;DR: big elements cause annoying scroll-bars to appear.
My username is very big, so when I open this page on a mobile I get a horizontal scroll-bar for the entire page.
In CSS there’s a property called
overflowwhich lets you decide how you want elements that contain elements wider or taller than them to behave. So you can solve this problem by simply making that element itself scroll instead of the entire page by usingoverflow: scroll, or hide the child elements by usingoverflow: hidden;.You can also solve these problems by dealing with the child elements for example: using the
word-wrapproperty to allow word wrapping, using thehyphensproperty to break words with hyphens, or in this case use the HTMLwbrtag to allow line breaking after every underscore, or even cut the longer words and append three dots to them; so my user name would look like this: “Limitless_s…”.I havent seen any such thing on mobile browser here. Its taken screen space into account quite well.
mobile browser works but is never as smooth and seamless as a native app.
What are some examples? What am i missing out on?
It’s hard to explain but for example see the difference of using Reddit web vs Apollo. Native apps have native system gestures and UI elements built in that generally feel a lot better to use.
Progressive app as well (just pin the lemmy homepage)
The website definitely works, but it has weird issues with posts jumping around.
Also you can’t use gestures on the website, but you can on apps. Like swiping to comment/like, tapping to hide, etc). It just feels way smoother
Agreed. Also funny because this whole thing started because of well-designed native apps in the first place…
I like Jerboa personally. I use the web app for kbin and quickly get annoyed and go back to lemmy on jerboa. But then I’m back to kbin because kbin’s /all/hot sort works properly and lemmy’s, while improving, is more like /all/rising.
Hmm, I only know about Jerboa.
Sync for Lemmy, Artemis
There is close to 10 Android apps currently in development you can see them at https://lemmy.ml/post/1162300
I have already tried thunder BTW. Nice interface, glitchy though and what stops me from using it over jerboa is not being able to sort by top day. TBF they have made remarkable progress in a short amount of time.
I’ve been sorting by top>day in Jerboa? Unless it’s broken and I haven’t noticed.
I think you misunderstood. I’m saying thunder doesn’t let you sort by top day and I’m still using jerboa because jerboa does let you.
I did indeed misunderstand. Thank you for the clarification.
For those uninformed:
Reddit Sync’s dev is already working on Sync for Lemmy, and Artemis for Lemmy/kbin looks like a spiritual successor to Apollo; will even be on both ios and android
@git Jerboa isn’t terribly bad but I understand why people think it isn’t good.
I’m hoping the Infinity dev makes one for kbin though, would be a great fit
Infinity dev is not making one. If the API shim works well it’ll get forked by someone (it’s open source) and it will work with Lemmy.
I thought about doing something similar as a labor of love but realized I’ve currently got dozens of projects in the works and would never really have the time. Between that and how shitty a very vocal minority of people can be to developers, I lost interest very quickly.
+1 for Infinity for Lemmy.
Infinity and Boost are my favorite Reddit apps.
sync looks amazing, I would use it if it was foss.
I have hope for RedReader. This is my favourite reddit app. And it’s foss.
memmy is going to be ported to android as well
I am actually working on one myself with. Net Maui blazor to be able to provide the same ui in browser and native on all mobiles and desktops (Mac, ios, Android, Windows,… With out Linux)
Even though I am an android user, I guess it would be nice for iOS user to also have some development going.
There are at least 5 apps for iOS in development, Mlem, Memmy, Limbo, Beyond and Thunder
I know Sync is coming and there are rumors about Boost. Are there more?
Slide for reddit is officially making a lemmy app.
Hmm, thought i read that Boost dev said “no”.
I think it’s a “no for now”, but Ruben has reserved a community over here just in case.
There’s a post about Slide being developed too, which was always my favorite Reddit app.
Should try some of them 3rd party lemmy apps
A robed man stands in the desert on a planet. The text below him says Lemmy API. Several AT-AT like robots are shown with red lasers firing at the robed man. Each robot has the text of an In development Lemmy app below it
There’s always a way!
Jerboa is pretty good imo
Ive ran the unreleased version there are a ton of improvements coming to it
TBH, the mobile experience isn’t half bad
I use jerboa. Especially like that it uses material you
Jerboa is a really good app considering is still Alpha
I agree. There’s definitely work to be done but considering the massive influx I think it’s doing pretty decently okay
