I think having an app to use this site easily on mobile will obviously be incredibly useful and can help this place grow even further.
It may still be too early but if no such app exists so far are there any plans for one?
Edit: Guys, looks like Jerboa started acting funny, I keep logging in but the app insists that I’m not logged in. I’m on the mobile site for now until I figure it out.
I’m using Beehaw through Firefox for Android, with the feature that puts a shortcut and treats the website as an app.
Works really well!
There are two that I know of for iOS that are in beta/alpha currently.
Mlem is open source and has read/write ability and is currently in TestFlight: https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem
My own client (yet to be named) is not in TestFlight yet but I expect it to be this week. It is read-only, designed for users who primarily lurk: https://mastodon.social/@developerjustin/110482189366365168
I’m not sure about the plan for Mlem but my plan is to support iOS, iPadOS and macOS with mine. Both support browsing/using any Lemmy instance.
Im using the Jerboa app, close enough to RiF for me. Edit: can browse your local instance or all of lemmy
Seems that it doesn’t have a list of communities function, or did i miss it. Only my subscriptions … meaning i’ll have to find that on the website for now and subscribe anywhere even if i’m just reading?
You can see local/subs/all from the hamburger on the side which will give different feeds, should be able to search for communities from the second icon on the left at the bottom but doesnr list for that id use something like Community browser but then you can find it in the app.
Is this what youre talking about?
Ahaaa! Yes that is what i missed. It still lacks listing all communities at an instance and some other general functionality i will not iterate here, but a way of subscribing through Jerboa was what i wanted. Thanks!
No worries, happy to help. There is [email protected] where there appears to be lots of discussion on it.
I tried using the Jerboa app but I swear it errored out on me constantly to the point I just went back to the mobile site. I don’t know if the high traffic lately or something was the culprit so I may give it another shot
I’ve been pleasantly surprised with Beehaw / Lemmy on mobile Chrome. It’s orders of magnitude better than web-based New Reddit atrocity.
