I’m thinking mobile but keeping the options open

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    I am an Android user so it’s definitely going to be Jerboa for me.

    I’m hoping to improve my Jetpack Compose skills so I can contribute more to its development as well :)

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      Yeah this is what I’ve been doing, have made a few simple PRs already to enhance the themes a bit! Never worked with Jetpack Compose before, but Google sure does the trick.

      Make sure you grab the latest beta of Android Studio (not the default stable one it suggests), and connect your Github account once it’s installed. The emulator works really well for testing, no phone needed. Makes it super quick to get up and running and start submitting fixes.

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        Make sure you grab the latest beta of Android Studio (not the default stable one it suggests)

        I’m definitely more accustomed to running the beta branch of Studio (especially now, as it contains the New UI from IntelliJ which I got used to a bit ago haha)!

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      I’m doing the same thing. I haven’t written kotlin or jetpack compose code before, but I was able to fix a minor bug that affected pre-login. Hopefully I’ll be able to find ways to contribute more.

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    Kinda an odd answer since it doesn’t exist yet, but the RedReader dev is considering a Lemmy version once Reddit kills third-party apps at the end of the month. That would be neat to see.

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    Been using Jerboa for Lemmy on Android. No complaints so far. But its early.

    Edit: misspelled the app name

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      Same here. Only complaint so far is I haven’t seen a way to adjust the font yet. I don’t like the default one. Seems a bit too big for me.

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        On the main screen open the menu top left, settings, look and feel. You can scale the font size down. Agreed the default was just a hair too big.

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      Same here. It can definitely be better, but it works for now. No errors so far.

      Edit: and just like that it suddenly threw an error. Lol.

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        It’s no reddit is fun (I miss my AMOLED background and simple interface that made navigating quoting linking and collapsing comment threads all such a breeze), but a) it’s better than any app I’ve ever made (I’ve never made an app), b) it will get better, c) I’ll get better at using it (I’m maybe 10 minutes in so far)

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          I completely agree. I use Joey myself (no particular reason - I just got pretty confortable with it). My only problem now is I keep getting timeouts. It could be my connection, though.

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    Alternatively, you can use Lemmy progressive webapp (PWA) installed from your favourite browser. But as already stated, as of now, there are currently only Jerboa, Mlem and this webapp.

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      I’m doing this with Firefox for Android. Since Lemmy doesn’t have any advertising or other anti-features, I don’t feel any pressing need for a third-party client.

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    I’ve been using Jerboa on Android for a couple days and so far I’m pretty happy with it.

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      Jerboa kinda sucks imo, there is no search feature as of yet. Sometimes it also logs me out of my account, however, it is stable so far so it has that going for it.

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        It isn’t quite there yet, but I think it does have the potential to become a solid app.

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        Via the “three horizontal exclamation marks” button on the bottom action bar you can search globally for communities, not only ones you’ve subscribed, if that’s what you mean.
        If you mean full text search, idk if Lemmy even has that.

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    I’m on Android and have been using Jeroba but it’s super glitchy. I really hope BaconReader makes an app for Lemmy (someone on reddit suggested it should be called LemonReader and I am all about that suggestion lol).

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    Trick question, you don’t need one for Lemmy since their website is actually functional :)

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    I go back and forth between Jerboa and PWA (from Chromium). I find both missing features I really like, but that just might be from the features to which I got accustomed from Slide and Infinity and not features that are must-haves. On Jerboa, the most annoying thing to me is during commenting, where the cursor jumps to somewhere else in the paragraph and deletes a word. It’s very annoying. I thought it was my keyboard, so I switched, but nope. Maybe an incompatibility with autocorrect features. Whatever. Lemmy is still growing up, while Reddit is 18.

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    This is a cop out answer. I tried Jerboa but wasn’t a big fan. That may change in the future. But I feel currently the best way to experience Lemmy on your phone is to do the following:

    1. Install the firefox app from the app store
    2. Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
    3. press the 3 dots (where you can view bookmarks, history, etc) and click on “Add to Home screen”

    When you click on the Lemmy icon that’s added to your home screen on your phone, it will open up the Lemmy web app (seperate from the firefox browser). It works super nice on mobile from my experience so far, and has a sleek design.

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      After trying jerboa I ended up going this route. I keep getting server errors using the pwa though not sure if lemmy.ml just can’t handle the traffic or I’m doing something wrong

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        I was having some issues with that server earlier. Opened an account on Lemmy.one and i’ve not had any more issues. They’re just overloaded it seems. Exciting times eh?

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      I’m using Jeroba but i can’t seem to post replies to comments outside of the instance I registered on. My understanding is this isn’t how it’s supposed to work?

      edit: huh, ok, this worked, so I must have done something different…

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        I think there’s just been a lot of growing pains with beehaw and lemmy.ml seeing way more traffic from new users. Their servers are going down under the load and that results in weird errors in the clients and web, and I’m assuming federation issues too.