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Looking for the best FOSS android app for Lemmy.

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[–] frefi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use Eternity because I heavily used Infinity, the Reddit app that it's forked from

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 8 months ago

Eternity ftw

[–] supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 8 months ago
[–] Cosmocrat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Eternity is great! Best UI in my opinion.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

There are a hundred little things that grind my gears with eternity though. Trying to work through them without switching for now.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 22 points 8 months ago

Jerboah is the oldest but best.

[–] Matt@lemdro.id 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thunder is my favorite with Voyager a close second.

[–] chevy9294@monero.town 1 points 8 months ago

Voyager is way more popular, but I don't like it's iOS-like UI, so I went with Thunder

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

voyager is easiest to use.
eternity is most customizable.
i use both.

[–] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 9 points 8 months ago

Just downloaded Eternity after using Jerboa for a while. This is so much better, even more so since I used Infinity for reddit.

[–] sintrenton@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

As some others, I use Jerboa. Tried a few others, but happy with it.

[–] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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)...
[–] Lemmyfunbun@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] ggnoredo@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago
[–] 0oWow@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Summit is what I use.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Voyager is nice and gets updated frequently

[–] Brunette6256@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch 1 points 8 months ago

No problem. I liked it initially for the modern feeling too and then came to enjoy the gesture based controls

[–] xiao@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Jerboa with Dracula theme of course.

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Boost and Voyager

[–] southernwolf@pawb.social 6 points 8 months ago

Voyager is absolutely fantastic, even as a PWA. Eternity is very competent too, especially if you are/were an Infinity for Reddit user.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 6 points 8 months ago

I've settled on Thunder. The only downside is that they haven't implemented replying to direct messages yet, you can only view them but apart from that, it's good.

[–] Der_Fossler@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago

I like Eternity

[–] ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub 5 points 8 months ago

I just use Jerboa, functional and simple. I use Tusky for Mastodon for the same reason.

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

I dont know is Connect FOSS, but its amazing. I used to be on liftoff, but its not maintained anymore

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Voyager has the nice feature to mark posts as read if you scroll past them. Has no way to create posts though.

[–] issue0315@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure it does. Click the dots in the upper right corner inside a community.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, thanks! Though not in aggregates.

[–] dracs@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

I've tried a few of them now and have settled on Eternity.

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Connect is working great for my needs.

[–] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 1 points 8 months ago

Closed source, though.

[–] EpicVision@monero.town 3 points 8 months ago

I like Thunder and Eternity

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I was using Eternity, then switched to Summit but after learning that the GitHub repo was only to let people use obtainium (so no real source is available), switched back to Jerboa. Now that it has support for moderation tools, I don't think I need to make a switch atm.

[–] macattack@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I've jumped around a few mobile apps since I joined the fediverse, right now the one that checks the most boxes for me is Raccoon for Lemmy

[–] Delusion6903@discuss.online 2 points 8 months ago

I use Summit for now. I went through quite a few others but this one is a keeper.

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Used to say liftoff but now Voyager is easily my favorite. Took some time getting used to but not bad at all.

[–] brenno@lemmy.brennoflavio.com.br 1 points 8 months ago

I like Thunder

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Best App is Sync, not sure its FOSS.

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] hruzgar@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's def still the best app though. For me personally the only reason why I'm on lemmy.

[–] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Same, but I'm also not concerned about FOSS, I just want a reliable app and sync is it.

[–] 50_centavos@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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.

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