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Liftoff!

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A mobile client for Lemmy running on iOS and Android

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

LIFTOFF AVAILABLE ON THE PLAY STORE

(Guys i'm not a developer, post your thanks and request in the groupπŸ˜…)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liftoffapp.liftoff&pli=1

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Developer of Connect here. Congratulations on the launch and Liftoff looks great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I’d not heard of Connect before, but it’s so exciting to see so many other great apps under development. It will keep us all on our toes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You are not stripping spaces at the end of login names in your app (sorry to ping you here but saw your reply and it reminded me to ask)

I couldn't get logged in to connect, or liftoff, then noticed I had a space (From selecting the suggestion on my phone). Didn't catch it until just now trying to login to liftoff. I've seen a couple complaints about getting logged into these apps. Wonder if I'm not alone with the extra space.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like most reddit clients are named: "BlaBla for reddit". It makes it easy to find clients for reddit. I wonder if this would also be beneficial for lemmy clients.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I agree. It would be easier to find. When I search for Liftoff, there is a bunch of games involving planes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hopefully soon on f-droid as well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was having trouble figuring out how to collapse comments... Finally stumbled on pressing and holding. Maybe this will help someone else using Liftoff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're making it a simple tap in the next release so don't get too set on the long press :-)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I love it so far, thanks for your hard work making the migration from Reddit easier.

One question, Im trying to send my friend a link to am article a post is looking to. The share button exports the lemmy link and not the actual article. If i click open in browser, it opens the federated instance hosting the article (kbin in this case) and not my browser, so i still have no way to copy the link right to the article. Any ideas.

Again, thank you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a pretty nice app! I especially like that it shows me content from multiple Lemmy instances, without my home instance needing to federate with them!

I have some feedback, though: when I see content from lemmy.ml, the app should use my lemmy.world account to vote and comment, as if I were viewing that instance through lemmy.world. It really defeats the purpose of federation if I can't use the same account, after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I second this, intensely! It's very silly...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is making an account on every instance a thing that should really be done?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fundamentally, I think it doesn't really matter. But as the first commenter said, the point of federation is that you only need 1 account on 1 federated instance to interact with everything. If the app doesn't let you do that, it's just defeating the point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After downloading it and using all afternoon. Love it my only comment on the UX

  • lines between cards on the dark amyloid theam.

Thats it. Otherwise it is pretty nifty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I cannot comment on a lot of stuff i can with jerboa for some reason. It throws "you are not logged in there"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Last update (v0.0.36) broke lemmy.world log in due to LW stuck rn in Lemmy v0.17 (instance owner said it didn't support 2FA yet, so he'll wait for it being supported in future lemmy updates)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Excited to see more apps being developed for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The link works for me, but for some reason I can't find it when I search for it in the Play Store? I tried "liftoff", "liftoff!" and "liftoff Lemmy"...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had to search using:

Liftoff fediverse -reddit

Had to add the -reddit to keep the reddit apps from junking up the results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Really nice, but I'm wondering about some choices

Why "everything" exists?

I thought All meant that, while Local meant your instance only and Subscribed is whatever you are subscribed to.

Also, this seems to lead to some issues interacting with other instances overall. I can't subscribe to an instance while looking at everything, even tho it is federated to mine.

I can see why the devs did it this way Maybe organization and all? But is it not defeating the purpose of the Fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Signing in to first account only let me use email not username (lemmy.world) second account attempt to add (beehaw) produced an error. Android, Google pixel 6 pro. Didn't really want to post here in your launch post but couldn't find a place to enter bugs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think beehaw is having issues

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah beehaw was down

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Might want to have the app autoselect some form of instance/community. I watched the loading circle for a minute before I started clicking around and selected communities to see it did in fact work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've got it installed via github but it doesn't show up in the search in the playstore for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Now we wait for IOS approval….

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

LOVE LOVE loving the UI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scrolling is not smooth at all for me. Anyone else? Very jittery, low framerate. Pixel 7 pro.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a pixel but I notice this as well and seems to only happen when scrolling comments. Connect for lemmy was way worse about this and would get laggier until completely locking up. Infact none of the apps I've tried feel smooth when scrolling comments. Regardless...I think I like this app the best so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey I just discovered this Lemmy web app that's so very good so far! Better than any app I've tried.

Wefwef.app

I "installed" it as a PWA on my device and it's so good!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just downloaded to check it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love that the screenshots are of the poop post

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good job, the more apps the better!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Really liking it so far, although smoother than others I very tried

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My favorite of the options I've tried so far, only request currently is to be able to remove the bottom bar when scrolling down the feed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This App is very well done! Significant improvement over Jerboa, great work and thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What about Fdroid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Really nice app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

First time seeing this app, it looks incredible! I love seeing all the customization option for simple things like shadows and rounded corners. I am having issues logging in with a lemmy.world account though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Installed this, liking it so far. Gotta get used to this UI over Jerboa's.

Edit- I can only browse communities within the three default instances added. Will I have to added each instance if I want to join any communities within them ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice app! Feed view is not compact enough, though. I like the preview pane for settings, but it's not useful if I can't get my desired results.

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