Looking for the best FOSS android app for Lemmy.
Jerboah is the oldest but best.
As some others, I use Jerboa. Tried a few others, but happy with it.
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…
Boost
- for Boost
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.
Removed by mod
Jerboa with Dracula theme of course.
Boost and Voyager
I like Eternity
Summit is what I use.
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.
Connect is working great for my needs.
Closed source, though.
I dont know is Connect FOSS, but its amazing. I used to be on liftoff, but its not maintained anymore
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
Summit. Solid app.
Summit isn’t FOSS.
Well that sucks. I still prefer it over the other ones I tried. Plus the dev uses Lemmy so that’s always a plus.
Which Lemmy client dev doesn’t have a lemmy account?
I dunno. I just saw the Summit dev talk about Summit so I tried it and really like it.
I also tried and liked it, though I switched back to Jerboa because I would always support the development of an open source app over a closed source app. The summit dev also said that he won’t open source it so I never will use it again.
I wish I had your determination! For me proprietary software is like committing a sin, I know I shouldn’t do it but sometimes it’s stronger than me.
