I tried one called Lemmur that I downloaded off F-Droid, however, it can not find this instance (lemmy.world). I want one that’s open-source, and preferably from F-Droid (because screw Google). Which one do you guys use?

  • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was an avid user of Relay, and unfortunately I haven’t found anything that mirrors its layout and functionality, so I decided to build it myself. Here’s the Github repo and a short recording of the UI which is already out of date. I’ll be releasing it once the permissive CORS PR gets merged and lands in major servers.

    • vinnythegooch9@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      One of the few things I could never get over after switching to apple was losing out on relay. No offense to anyone that uses other apps on Android, part of the reason android is so great is the variety but relay to me was the best by far without any doubt. I used apollo on iOS and it’s good, I’m actually switching back to Android right now because I I just prefer it to iOS so it doesn’t matter anymore because I’m looking at Lemmy apps for Android mow, and I’ll probably try out wefwef on Android since I like it on iphone but man once you put this out… I don’t see how I could use anything else if this is even close to relay, that UI just speaks to me

      • lgm@universeodon.com
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        1 year ago

        @vinnythegooch9 that’s interesting, I feel the same way but in reverse. I came back to iOS for Apollo, but Relay was my favorite on Android. What do you prefer about Relay?

        • vinnythegooch9@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Don’t get me wrong, apollo is great. And I am going back to android for other OS reasons, I just like it more. I used it my whole “smartphone life” but wanted to try out ios since I saw a deal and don’t use my phone a ton anymore. I decided to switch back for smaller reasons like customisability, the Google ecosystem all my shit is in, etc… But to answer your question, some of the things I love about relay that no other app does is the built in browser that functions by just swiping down the bar, I used it a lot to go back and forth between an article some content and the actual reddit comments, I also really like the aesthetic of how it separates posts and comments, the swipe gestures are pretty standard, probably some other things I can’t remember but it’s probably just a personal feel.

          • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I love about relay that no other app does is the built in browser that functions by just swiping down the bar

            This is also something I loved, but unfortunately not something I’ll be able to reproduce in a PWA.

            I am considering doing some kind of native wrapper that allows me to run two separate webviews so that I could do this and distribute it as an APK on the Play Store. I should already be able to distribute the standard PWA version on app stores.

            (Sorry iOS users I don’t have any Apple devices and I’m not going to pay them $100 for the privilege of providing their minority platform value with a free open source app)