Looking for a Jerboa alternative that wont be affected by the non-anonymous Google dev bullshit. I cant hop over to graphene or any other OS for that matter for reasons I wont get into. Getting my shit up and running on Jerboa was a hassle so Id like to figure out which lemmy apps will be viable for the future on basic boy androidOS.
Edit: added the app alert this morning as an image
Your approach is wrong.
You change apps because the devs don’t want to bow to Google, while it’s the opposite that needs to be done.
Just set your phone to skip this “verification” bullshit, in this way Google can see from the telemetry that the 0.01% of users disagree with their policy
How do you disable this verification?
Google is going to push an update that will automatically install without consent or permission to all android devices and after the install, the disable toggle will appear buried in the settings, somewhere in developer settings
How do you do that
Google said that they’re going to push an automatic update that will install without the user consent (it’s ok. It’s their phone, not our phones) and hide the option somewhere in the menus in the next months. It will be buried behind three scary warnings then the user has to remember to come back after 24 hours to continue. But then it will be disabled on that specific device, it seems
Oh OK. I thought you had to wait 24 h every time you wanted to install something.
Jerboa is not supporting Googles’s attack on Android? I might just install it.
Just update it from F-droid after that or uninstall it from the Google store download the F-Droid store and download jerboa from there.
The F-droid store had a banner on the other day. I am under the impression even F-droid managed apps will be impacted.
What really?
Any install will be affected, doesn’t matter how it is downloaded. Only way around is side loading for dev purposes, which is not really practical. So this will finally push me to install another OS.
Jeez that really sucks.
Voyager which has the added bonus of supporting piefed.
Voyager works with PieFed, but it doesn’t fully support it yet. Loooots of missing features.
Still doesn’t work for me on piefed :(
I thought you could still install apps from other app stores if you just enabled the setting and wait a cooldown period like 1 day? Maybe they changed the policy though not sure
I moved off jerboa onto connect for Lemmy
Serves me well, although development slowed for a bit
I just switched off of Connect and miss it…but the bugs were too much to bear.
Off the top of my head:
-Inbox is empty despite getting a reply
-your profile doesn’t update. The reason I know this is because when I got replies, I had to go into my profile and find the comment someone replied to
-editing text freaks out sometimes and selects half the comment with no way to adjust one of the selection handles
Usually a complete uninstall/reinstall fixed it but…I’m not gonna do every time for a Lemmy app.
I switched to Voyager and there’s one missing feature that makes me want to find a new one: you have to go INTO a community to block it. So when c/dudesjackingoff shows up up on All, I have to click on the community and see more dudes jacking off in order to stop seeing dudes jacking off.
The connect dev actually added that feature when I requested it years ago so maybe the Voyager devs will, too
If you long press community name you can block from feed. Same with usernames!
Oooh amazing, guess I don’t need to find a new app after all
I noticed the profile refresh bug a while ago and raised it. It hasn’t been a problem for me for a while so I thought it was resolved. I know the dev disappeared for a few months but turned up again recently
Can’t say I noticed u/dudesjackingoff on /all though. To each their own I guess
Haha if you want a real example, I recently blocked a makeup fetish and a furry feet community.
Maybe I’ll check it out again. I switched while the dev was MIA.
Personally, I am using Summit (installed with Obtainium, it is not available in F-Droid)
I find that it works quite well and has a very nice user interface! Pretty customisable too.
edit: Forgot to add, yes, Summit can be installed through the Google Play Store.
I mean, yeah, but OP is specifically asking because Jerboa is not on Playstore and may not be installable if Google really follows through not allowing to install anything outside Playstore.
Which maybe still is possible but we will only know when we are there.
because Jerboa is not on Playstore
Jerboa is on the Play Store though.
Summit can be installed through the Google Play Store as well. Forgot to add that, sorry!
Oh! I actually didn’t know, thanks for pointing it out. I am also getting it via Obtainium.
Summit is the GOAT, and that is no easy feat as most of the Lemmy apps are great.
GrapheneOS
Summit is great.
- Swipe can be configured to do lots on posts and comments (upvote, downvote, reply, other stuff I don’t use)
- Configurable feed appearance. Can be customized per account.
- Apparently does PieFed stuff. At least logs in, I haven’t used more features than that.
- It’s pretty.
Thunder for lemmy is nearly perfect in my experience
Blorp dev here! We have
- Multi account support, better than any other client imo
- Login with Lemmy and PieFed
- Save post drafts, finish later
- Create piefed poll posts
- PieFed emoji reactions
- Some fun themes and easter eggs
- Great nsfw browsing, if that’s your thing
- And much more
iOS | FDroid | Google Play | Source Code
I like blorp
Spell check on aisle 3!
Damn it. Good catch
What separates your multi account support from other apps’ offerings?
From my testing, if you use multiple accounts, some clients will close any communities or posts you have open when you switch accounts. Blorp doesn’t do that.
To be fair, it looks like Photon handles this pretty gracefully. Tesseract is a close 2nd, but probably good enough for most people’s needs. Blorp and Photon handled throwing a private instance in the mix, while Tesseract didn’t.
As far as mobile apps, Voyager will close any open posts or other content when switching accounts. Interstellar doesn’t seem to let me switch accounts while I have a post open.
Blorp and Photon will actually go as far as to help you identify which of your accounts you can switch to see a specific post or community. Here’s Blorp, for example:
There’s too many apps for me to test. Please let me know if you find more apps that can do this. I’m especially curious if you can find an app that supports web, iOS, Android and lets you login with Lemmy and PieFed simultaneously.
That’s pretty impressive! As far as I know, only Mlem (iOS only) can also keep posts/communities/etc open when switching accounts.
- Download the Platform-Tools for ADB and Fastboot.
https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools
- Follow various guides on how to sideload APKs with ADB.
https://www.makeuseof.com/install-apps-via-adb-android/
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Profit.
huh, what’s the matter with Jerboa? I’m using it, haven’t heard anything negative about it (yet).
Got this message this morning
I guess OP is looking for a jerboa alternative that can be installed through the playstore. Isn’t the Google shit this thing in which your phone will now not allow sideloading?
ahhh is that the issue, I hadn’t understood. Thanks for clarifying, glad it’s nothing bad with Jerboa itself.
I still use jerboa quite often but have been considering moving. It worked well for a couple years but the last month or two there are stupid things like, not being able to scroll back up through the comments where it’ll get stuck, or if I collapse a comment, and try to reopen it the content is blank so I have to exit the comment section and reopen to be able to the top of the comment section and start over. If it is a long comment thread you then have to scroll slow because if you miss the comment you collapsed by accident you can’t scroll back up to find it because the first problem. At that point I just give up on that and move on.
I made a post about it in the jerboa thread a month ago, it appears to be happening to more than just me, and across multiple devices, even someone on graphene said it was happening to them.
Trouble with Jerboa is that it’s developed by the same people developing Lemmy it’s self.
So their focus is split and jerboa is almost certainly the less important of the two
Any reason why you can’t just use one of the many, many web-based apps and “install” it? Photon, Alexandrite, Tesseract, Voyager, and many more all let you “install” them to your home screen. They run in your phone’s web browser but don’t have the address bar and work full screen and basically look/act like native apps.
shout-out to Voyager! installed as a PWA and it’s solid as hell
Blorp dev here. We got great support for web and iOS/Android. Though admittedly, the PWA install could use a little improvement. But the more Android becomes an issue, the more I’ll work on improving the PWA.
Nice. Only omitted that one because I hadn’t heard of it. I like to switch apps every so often so will check it out.
I use Eternity. It hasn’t been getting a lot of development, but it doesn’t really need anything that I’m aware of.
If I were picking one that’s getting a lot of development, I’d probably look at Interstellar. It’s less mature — it’s not a port of a Reddit app — but it works with all of Mbin/Lemmy/Piefed. I use it when I want to talk to a Piefed server from an Android device.
Eternity has not gotten any update for almost 2 years now, it is dead. I wouldn’t trust the app, but consider it an security risk. I feel very sorry as I have been a huge Infinity fan in the good old times, but I’d recommend you to switch. Voyager is a fine replacement for Eternity.
