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Android.
Using Jerboa to access lemmy, which so far (for an alpha) seems ok
It's pretty good hey? I've done some Android dev before so spent the weekend making some fixes and improvements for it, and lots of others are doing the same. I figured the better it is to use, the more likely it is that people will hang around after the Reddit implosion. With its current velocity I expect it'll be damn near amazing in a month or so!
It's ok! early days though.
Crashed at least once on me, some gui difficulties ("how do you login" for example was extremely difficult, while most buttons initially don't work saying you must be logged in, and the login form is hidden in an odd place then an odd place within the odd place)
May we live in interesting times!
Edit: that being said, Far better than reddit Web site on mobile which I used to use so I'm happy :)
Yea been using it on my Samsung tablet in landscape mode which is better then the official Reddit app. I do full stack Dev work so if Reddit continues to double down with their API change then id love to develop my own android app for lemmy.
Ooo good idea.
I'm an android dev too, though only via csharp so all the APIs have very slightly different names or are invoked as properties rather than methods etc (like "cameraManager.getCameraIds()" would be "cameraManager.CameraIds").
What's the best way to get involved? Just look for open issues on github?
Yeah just take a look here: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa
I'd never used Kotlin or Jetpack Compose before, but I just picked smaller issues to fix that involved copying an existing code pattern or fixing easily repeatable bugs. It was a fun weekend!
Me too. Works pretty well so far.
Jerboa did not work for me at all - kept freezing, struggled to stay logged in etc. The first comment I tried to post it just lost into the ether. I ended up giving up on it and am just using my browser.