Looking for the best FOSS android app for Lemmy.
I use Eternity because I heavily used Infinity, the Reddit app that it’s forked from
Eternity ftw
I just use jerboa
Eternity is great! Best UI in my opinion.
There are a hundred little things that grind my gears with eternity though. Trying to work through them without switching for now.
Jerboah is the oldest but best.
Thunder is my favorite with Voyager a close second.
Voyager is way more popular, but I don’t like it’s iOS-like UI, so I went with Thunder
Best App is Sync, not sure its FOSS.
It’s not
It’s def still the best app though. For me personally the only reason why I’m on lemmy.
I agree. I used it for 10 years on reddit (I paid $0.99) and bought the lifetime ad removal for the Lemmy version when it came out. It’s not what OP is looking for though.
If Sync didn’t exist I would use Thunder. It works well, has a nice interface, and is FOSS.
Same, but I’m also not concerned about FOSS, I just want a reliable app and sync is it.
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I just dropped Sync. I’ve used it for reddit since the app came out. Even paid for the premium version years ago. My purchase didn’t carry over to the lemmy version, and I noticed the app collects data for marketing now. Switched to Voyager, it’s not as fluid as Sync but I’ll get used to it.
As some others, I use Jerboa. Tried a few others, but happy with it.
voyager is easiest to use.
eternity is most customizable.
i use both.Just downloaded Eternity after using Jerboa for a while. This is so much better, even more so since I used Infinity for reddit.
My top choices:
- Jerboa and Eternity are native Android apps (the first uses modern technologies like Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, the second one has a lot of Java code and the UI is made with XML layouts for activities/fragments);
- Voyager is portable web app built with React in Typescript, with mobile flavours made using Ionic capacitor;
- Thunder is a cross-platform app built with Flutter in Dart (like Liftoff and Lemmur were in their days);
- there are other FOSS apps like Combustibile (native/Java+XML) or Muffed (Flutter)…
I just want one that opens the lemmy links properly when I click on them from within in posts. I have all links selected in open default apps.
That’s an interesting point… Jerboa should handle Lemmy handles correctly in the form
!element@host.Also hyperlinks in the form of https://host/u/name (or https://host/c/name) are intercepted and opened in app.
I’m not its maintainer but I read its source code and IIRC those cases are handled…
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Summit is what I use.
Boost
- for Boost
Voyager is nice and gets updated frequently
Ive only used jebora. Till I saw this one in a few posts. Kinda digging it. Its a tad more “modern” feeling. I guess. Thanks.
No problem. I liked it initially for the modern feeling too and then came to enjoy the gesture based controls
Jerboa with Dracula theme of course.
Boost and Voyager
