Apologies if this has already been asked, I’m very new here and still learning everything.

I am (was…) an RIF user on reddit. I just found Jerboa For Lemmy today and so far it feels somewhat intuitive coming from RIF. It seems like a decent app so far in the handful of hours I’ve been toying with it. But I would love to hear what others are currently using for Android.

Thanks!

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Your options are Jerboa or adding the website to your home screen. Both work, sort of, but I don’t think any major developers have turned their attention to Lemmy yet.

    It should be possible to take an open source Reddit client (Infinity, Slide) and alter it to call the Lemmy API, but you’d need to tweak the login flow and make sure to show avatars/instances/etc. correctly and I can see that becoming tricky.

    Lemmy usage has quickly jumped up so hopefully this will attract app developers to the platform.

  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    2 years ago

    Ive been using boost for reddit for a long time. Jerboa is neat but imo not yet sufficient for daily use. Its a new app, development takes time.

    Currently to use lemmy I am using Brave browser on Android and using my instance’s website. This seems to be the most robust option available at the moment.

    • LemmyAtem@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      I’m a fellow booster using Jerboa. It’s pretty barebones but it works so far! My only issue is I can’t figure out how to community search (or search at all). I just switch to the browser, find what I need, then switch back. A little clunky but it’s new!

      • psudo@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 years ago

        If you go to the home screen and pick the community button (it’s the second item from the left on the bottom and looks like a list) you should be able to search for any community that is indexed by your host instance.

        • LemmyAtem@beehaw.org
          2·
          2 years ago

          oh nice! I see it now, it’s hard to spot because it blends in with the rest of the in-line text. Maybe a future version could put a search box or make the search field more obvious in some other way. Thanks so much!

          • psudo@beehaw.org
            2·
            2 years ago

            Yeah, I am enjoying Lemmy and Jerboa, but they are definitely not the most user intuitive.

    • catherine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      0·
      2 years ago

      Fellow booster! I am going to miss that app :(( I haven’t been able to get jerboa to work totally correct, so I’ve also just been browsing on the website (on my phone)

      • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 years ago

        I know 😔 I cant believe it honestly. Its been a daily use app for me ever since I started browsing reddit on my phone. Originally I got it because there was no official app, but over the years I’ve gotten so comfy with it. I really hope jerboa comes around, or we can plug lemmy into boost which we may actually be able to do, but for now the standard lemmy browsing interface is actually shockingly good on mobile.

  • HatlessAtlas@lemmy.ml
    61·
    2 years ago

    Currently Jerboa. Infinity for Reddit on the other place. Husky for other #fedi stuff.

    Jerboa/Infinity feel kind of similar-ish. Learning curve not bad.

  • TeaHands@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years ago

    Jerboa works fine but if anyone else is Lemmying on multiple accounts like I am, fyi it’s very clunky for that (which is fine, it’s not a common use-case). In that situation, installing your various home instances as apps works much better.

  • oryx@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I tried Jeroba, but had some issues logging in and then noticed the UI is huge on my Pixel 7. I’m on Chrome now and it works great. I cam from Sync.

    • don@lemmy.donmcgin.com
      1·
      2 years ago

      You probably noticed when you were messing around with Jerboa, but you can decrease font size in the Look and Feel settings. I found the app unusable until I did that.

      • utopia_dig@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 years ago

        The default font size on the thread overview page is okay, but when you enter a thread it is way too large. When you decrease the font size, the fonts on the overview page become way too small.

        I don’t know why they are so different and why they are even connected in the settings.

        • alphalyrae@beehaw.org
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’m experiencing this as well on Jerboa. It would be nice if I could decrease the text size in a thread without making the overview page unreadable.