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Hi there!

Voyager has been released to Google Play! You can check it out here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager

Please try it out and let me know what you think below! Because it's brand new, let me know if you have any problems relative to the web app and I'll try to fix them ASAP. And if you have time, leave a review, that helps Voyager gain exposure.

Why use the native Android version? Well, there's a couple main benefits:

  • The back button works much better!
  • Your browser history shouldn't be inundated with Voyager entries.

Please note, it's currently a slightly outdated version of Voyager. Hopefully it should update soon!


As for Apple peeps, that's still in progress. If you're on TestFlight and have an Apple Watch, check out the brand new Apple Watch app (coming very shortly in an update). It's quite simple at the moment, but kind of neat and useful!

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

Did we just get like 3 new apps drop in about 2 days?

Sync, Infinity and Voyager. Omg.

[–] Levsgetso 1 points 1 year ago

The public beta for Artemis was also released two days ago. It’s amazing how so many apps are popping up!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Apple Watch app

Woah! Is this a first? Actually sounds kinda cool.

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

It's very very basic but still kind of cool! I hope it will be expanded in the future, but my Swift skills need to improve (or someone more talented needs to help, lol)

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

How do I install it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is there a possibility of it being released on F-Droid?

Or just an apk download?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Installing my 7th Lemmy client then...:)

It's fun to try them all.

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

It's 12th for me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This may very well become my favorite mobile app for Lemmy. I used infinity for Reddit and I quite like the Lemmy fork (though its still VERY early In development so we shall see)

But I love a lot of them currently. This ones just clean, simple while still having great features

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, infinity has a Lemmy fork? What's it called?

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

Infinity for Lemmy. Still has a lot of Reddit terms and things at the moment. But its quick and functional. You'll have to grab it here and I'd recommend using obtanium to update it if you have it https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Two apps in as many days. Excited to try it out!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quite good. If you allow criticism, one particular feature that needs improvment is the smoothness of image loading. Images (in particular) and posts took quite awhile to load. Even for some images, when they have already been loaded and displayed, if I go back and then forward, the app will try to reload the images that have already been displayed before. By right, the images should've already been cached and will load straight away.

This is what I find strangely interesting with Sync, which you can take as a benchmark. The image load very fast, even at the first loading. None of the apps that I tried, e. g. liffoff and infinity can even load (half?) that fast. If you can find a good algorithm to load ~~the~~ images, it will help increase user experience tremendously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I noticed that the vibration feels mushier on slide gestures compared to the web app/back button swipe. For reference I'm on the Pixel 6a and use Edge as my PWA client.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you very much!

Right off the bat, it feels much more smoother. I haven't noticed anything broken, I'll keep an eye out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see developers putting in some hard work to make the best lemmy app. imo voyager and sync are the best I tried so far in terms of responsiveness and features!! definitely leaving a review

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

That's quite interesting. I was very impressed with Voyager being a PWA and a bit sad that a native version was needed.

Isn't the overhead of maintaining three completely different code bases very demanding?

Or, as the benefits it seems to have are quite limited, was it a quick conversion into a native app?

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

Congrats on the launch, exciting times to be sure!

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

Thank you for bringing Voyager to the app store. I have installed and tried it, it's just as good as its web counterpart. Nothing abnormal or malfunction, great work. The loading speed is much faster than the webapp. Though, I do miss the ability to update to the new version using the web.

Thank you πŸ‘

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

I really like this project, so kudos! Both as PWA on the browser and in the wrapped WebView version it is GREAT! I have a feature request if it's not too complicated: would it be possible to disable the long tap gesture on images which I sometimes accidentally trigger while scrolling? In the browser it opened the share modal, here it does nothing except giving haptic feedback.

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

Can anyone comment and how's the battery performance of the native app compared to the PWA?

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

Awesome, posting this from the app! My browser history thanks you!

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

I really wish I could disable the post collapse on click. Long click wouid be ok, but like this as I'm scrolling I'm constantly accidentally collapsing comment threads, it's really annoying.

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

The back action doesn't seem to work when in the home page. I was expecting app to get closed.

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

I love the subreddit migration tool.

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

As a developer of PWAs, can I ask how you ported it to Android? Did you use something like React Native?

(Regardless, I love me my Voyager PWA app. thank you!)

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

Thanks for the app, everything is working fine!

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

One of the killer features of the PWA is long tapping an image anywhere and sharing it through other apps. Not a link to the post, not a link to the image but the actual image. Long tapping an image in the native app only vibrates it and does nothing. Would it be possible to port that behavior?

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

What's the benefits of using this version compared to the PWA version?

Edit: I'm blind, it's mentioned right in the post

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

Unfortunately I get the "this app is incompatible with your device" from the playstore. Sony Xperia 1 IV (Android 13)

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

Weird, thanks for the report, I'll look into it :)

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

Its happening to me with a few other lemmy apps from the store like Lemmotif, Summit and Beyond for Lemmy. All are early access too which might be the reason, although other EA apps like Arctius (fennec) installed fine. Just to note, i did install the apks of the above incompatible apps via their github pages fine. So its not that my device is incompatible, its just google store blocking something internally perhaps.

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

Check out Obtanium for updates to apps from github

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

Congrats! Looks good

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

When using 3 button navigation on my Pixel Fold running the latest Android 14 Beta, on light mode, the buttons are white, blending in with the background of the app... If that makes sense. Almost as if they are transparent.

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

yes!!! finally!!!!

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

Amazing! Just some limited use so far but the experience seems every bit as good as the PWA. Thanks!

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

Woah! That was quick!

I have a problem. It's not really to native app though. It's related to themes. Themes look good in Apple mode, but in Android mode switches look half blue half red. It looks weird.

[–] Ultrawide1654 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m jailbroken on iOS 15 and I don’t see the watch app aa installable. Is this iOS 16 required ?

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

The Android app I've been waiting for! Just dl'd it but will give it a spin overthe next few days.

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

Just saw this post a few minutes back and downloaded it.

Not sure if its my phone (samsung s22+) or something, but comments keep dropping and I need to reopen the post for the comments to show up.

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

When I try to comment I get blank text box, no qoute, image attachemt, hyperling etc. Do I have to use ![]() for img or im missing something?

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

Again and again this app is fantastic

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

This is very exciting! Thank you for all of your hard work.

I installed it on my phone, but I'm didn't get prompted for my password manager to autofill my password, so I needed to go to my password manager in my phone and copy/paste it manually.

Also, I am currently running my own voyager container for my own instance. Is the play store app able to connect to that? If not, where is the underlying web app running?

Thanks again for the effort!