In defense of jerboa it is at version 0.0.34-alpha. Jerboa is alpha level software and makes no secret of it
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Yeah, totally! I am not trashing Jerboa here. It's free software that I didn't pay for, so I don't have any entitlement regarding it or anything. My point was just mainly "until Jerboa is good enough, this solution might help".
It's actually pretty amazing what these two guys have pulled off almost completely by themselves.
This just got announced:
https://old.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/comments/14ee1ul/sync_for_lemmy_is_happening/
this dev made my personal favorite reddit app, so im holding out hope
I did the same with firefox, it works better that way.
Here on Beehaw, you can do the PWA option and get a specific icon to this instance. I find that the PWA of Lemmy works better at this time than the Jerboa app. But neither are as polished experience as you may be used to on other apps.
Interesting. I found the PWA instance (on an iPhone) to be buggier. I reverted to just using the browser where I have direct access to a refresh button, share etc.
I was having to close and reopen the PWA constantly and often it was because a post or comment reply was timing out.
None of the options are that great right now. I still mostly use Jerboa, and go to the PWA for things that don't work. Other android apps you can check out are thunder that has an alpha out, memmy which only has an iOS beta so far, but plans to be cross-platform, and lemmur which is outdated and is incompatible with current lemmy, although there's a fork with more recent development so it could possibly come back at some point.
I really dislike the theming and buttons at the top of the page on Lemmy mobile. The tildes theme is better, but some of those targets are pretty tiny for my not real large hands. Jerboa uses my system colors and allows for a little customization.
Every now and then I do find myself needing to leave the app to do or find something on the actual site, but it's mostly been good for me so far.
I've been experiencing a bug with the Firefox desktop (115.0b7)link on Android.
It opens to a black screen with no content. If I return to the app drawer and then select it again, then content will load. Kind of strange.
I'm mostly looking for a mobile application which also supports kbin. I'm now using PWA, it's fine for now but ideally an dedicated app would have my preference.
I tried to connected via Jerboa to kbin.social but it gives me an warning that that instance is not recognized...
I guess this is the actually best way to use Lemmy on a phone. Either Chromium or Firefox based browsers work.
I did the same with Chrome, for both beehaw and Lemmy.world, they are PWA on my screen and work well