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
Jerboa is not supporting Googles’s attack on Android? I might just install it.
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
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.
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 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.
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
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
shout-out to Voyager! installed as a PWA and it’s solid as hell
Voyager which has the added bonus of supporting piefed.
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
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.
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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!
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Summit is the GOAT, and that is no easy feat as most of the Lemmy apps are great.
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.
GrapheneOS
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
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.
Yes, but: if you use the app, they now feature a dialog telling you that Google forces developers to register and send over personal data for their identification. The jerboa devs say they won’t do it, so it’s just a matter of time until the app gets pulled from the play store by Google.
For accuracy, it will stay on the store. Devices that are “certified” will be unable to find it on the store or install it via the store.
As a result I think the devs will stop pushing it there, but it will still be there for devices that Google isn’t worried about.
Devices that are “certified” will be unable to find it on the store or install it via the store.
I’m a bit confused on how that’s supposed to be the case. All apps on the play store already have to be signed with developer credentials. This won’t change with the new requirements, those impact apps outside the play store. I don’t think it’s possible to push “uncertified” apps onto Google Play. So what am I missing here?
What you’re missing is an extra certification step. Previously all Google wanted was some cash and a bare minimum of “who you are.” Now Google wants birth certificates and ID images. All stuff I never had to do when I put apps on the app store years ago.
I might be wrong, but as far as I heard, any APK installed will have to go through Google’s dev verification.
Not anymore. After public outcry, Google established 2 alternatives:
- Through developer mode, you will be able to “forego security” (according to Google) and do a lengthy and obnoxious procedure to unlock your phone for installing any app.
- They’re defining a way for official (sanctioned by Google) 3rd party app stores to work, and you will be able to install apps verified by them, instead of Google.
