yarn,
@yarn@sopuli.xyz avatar

Liftoff is what I’ve settled on, so far. I’ve found it to have the best performance of all the Android options.

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Thunder has gotten a lot better, as well. It’s now the fastes for me, by far.

yarn,
@yarn@sopuli.xyz avatar

Thunder was pretty snappy. I didn’t know about that one, so I tried it just now. I’m afraid to say I think I like Liftoff better still, because Thunder uses swipe gestures for a few things and is missing a few “top” sorts, but it seemed like it has potential.

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

It didn’t have top sorting at all a few versions ago 😅

Theres a dozen of us contributing to it every day, it’s coming along very nicely, and making it usable without the gestures is a current focus. It’s already possible with posts, but next up are comments.

Keep it in mind! Check back a bit later and I’m sure you’ll be impressed.

yarn,
@yarn@sopuli.xyz avatar

Cool, sounds like it’s coming along well. I’ll give it another shot next update or so :)

MentalEdge, (edited )
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Gestures can now be entirely disabled, and you can turn on buttons for posts and comments. All top sort options are now available.

Also play store release within next 24 hours.

yarn,
@yarn@sopuli.xyz avatar

Cool, thanks for the update! Coincidentally, Liftoff put gestures with no option to turn them off in their latest release, so I’ve been a little unsatisfied about that. I’ll try Thunder again.

The play store release is a huge deal too. Ngl that I probably wouldn’t have used Thunder if I had to manually update it from github for each new release.

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar
yarn,
@yarn@sopuli.xyz avatar

Thanks!

Galaxyboy_3598,

Truthfully, it was my least favorite of all of the Lemmy apps. I didn’t like it’s user interface. Was it recently updated?

Shortbus,
@Shortbus@lemmy.world avatar

I tried liftoff a few hours ago and same. Didn’t mind jerboa, but connect just clicked with me… I think because the flow is extremely similar to boost.

I couldn’t shake the same feeling I get when using discord when using liftoff. Just no.

To each their own. That’s why there are options.

MajesticSloth,
@MajesticSloth@lemmy.world avatar

Which one do you prefer?

Galaxyboy_3598,

I dabbled with Jerboa, Thunder, Liftoff, Connect, and wefwef.

I like Jerboa the most.

RampageDon,

Jerboa and Connect have been my two favorite

ahto,

Same. It looks and feels like “my first flutter app”. I switched to Thunder, which is also made with flutter, but is much more pleasant to use.

Xartle,

It’s my favorite of the options so far, I wish I wouldn’t default to lemmy.world, but that may be pilot error…

TwinTurbo,

There are a few default instances in the settings page, and you can add your own as well.

photonic_sorcerer,
@photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah, I think you can change the default page in settings.

sloonark,

You can remove the lemmy.world instance once you’ve added your own. Long press.

david,

It’s my go-to for random lemmy browsing. If I want to read interesting and/or thoughtful stuff I log in to my home instance where I’m subscribed to all my favourite content, but if I feel like mindlessly scrolling some memes and go where the internet mainstream goes, I use liftoff. Good interface, good speed.

FarLine99,

👍🙂

GladiusB,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

My only gripe is that there does not seem to be a “context” button as the website has when people reply to my comments. Other than that, seems pretty solid.

FarLine99,

If you click chain button near comment in Inbox section then on mid of the screen will be button show context 😉

GladiusB,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

Oh mb. I thought was the “link” button.

GladiusB,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

Mb. I thought that was the link button. Thank you stranger.

FarLine99,

yup. Kinda confusing icon. Need improvement. ❤️❤️❤️

parsonpigeon,

The interface is fast on an oldish Android tablet and I like the way images swipe up and away smoothly. But I couldn’t vote or comment on non-local posts that I could do on Connect. Not sure if that was a config setting I missed though.

FarLine99,

You should login your account on some instance. And on the top on home tab you should choose your instance you are logged in. Bad UI design, not a bug.

PizzasDontWearCapes,

I switched to Liftoff from Jerboa.

There are a few features that either don’t exist or I haven’t found (jump to next comments thread), but it’s worked really well overall.

For context, I use Relay when I’m on Reddit

AnActOfCreation,
@AnActOfCreation@programming.dev avatar

Check out Thunder! It’s my favorite Lemmy app so far coming from Relay. Similar to Jerboa but a lot smoother in my experience.

sloonark,

I tried about five different android apps and LiftOff was the one I picked. Looks the best, runs smooth, nice interface, fast with updates. Love it.

FarLine99,

👍👍👍

pH3ra,
@pH3ra@lemmy.ml avatar

The main issue I’m having with liftoff is that I cannot upvote or comment posts from other instances with my lemmy.ml account, so I’m still using jerboa

sloonark,

This should not be a problem with LiftOff. I can upvote and comment on posts from any instance. Have you tried the most recent update?

pH3ra,
@pH3ra@lemmy.ml avatar

I can upvote and comment on posts from any instance.

I mean you can if you have multiple subscription or if you do it through your main instance, but that’s a feature all clients have and I think they do it in a more intuitive way, conpared to LiftOff

Have you tried the most recent update?

Yes, I’m on v0.10.7

sloonark,

In that case, I don’t know what you mean. I only have one account on one instance and I can seamlessly interact with posts from other instances.

bric,

It’s pretty nice, definitely prettier than jerboa. I still haven’t found an app that will let me swipe between post comment sections like Joey (for reddit) could. Heck, even the official reddit app could do it, it’s like the only feature it had that all of the 3rd party apps don’t. Once I find an app that can do that, I’ll probably stick with it

FarLine99,

Create issue on GitHub. Liftoff has good developers!

Venutianxspring,

I keep bouncing between this one and Jerboa. I like Liftoff a little more, as it’s easier to handle multiple instances and accounts, but I wish that it had mod tools so I wouldn’t have to go my communities in the browser or PC to do anything mod related.

FarLine99,

As time will go on I am confident that mod tools will appear.

Klear,

It’s the only app I’ve tried so I know it’s the best one.

FarLine99,

Such an explanation 🤣👍👍

craftyindividual,

I can’t argue with this logic. Truly.

infiniteloop,

I like it a lot. I tried Connect but it feels clunky, LiftOff feels more refined.

FarLine99,

cool!

Hypnoctopus,
@Hypnoctopus@lemmy.ml avatar

Does lift off have the feature to highlight a comment and then hit a button to go directly to the next parent level comment?

bric,

kind of. It has “view context”, which doesn’t show the parent, but it also has “more context”, which will. So between the two you can get what you’re looking for in 2 clicks

arvere,

I am not a regular app user (I prefer my stuff on browsers) and I’m finding it excellent.

easy to use, fast, simple and functional and I absolutely love features such as “make texts selectable”. it’s infuriating when apps don’t allow that.

imo it doesn’t need to get much more complex than that… nowadays most mobile devs simply don’t care about performance and target only high end devices

FarLine99,

It still need features. 85 issues about enhancements on GitHub approve it. But it does not mean it will be complex. If everything will be done right performance would be nice.

arvere,

hoping so. I guess just the fact that they are not running millions of trackers on you already makes a good performance/battery usage boost

FarLine99,

Yup. Trackers are resource intensive, so I hope everything will be smooth and optimized 🙂

ghariksforge,

I’m really happy that it is on Izzy

FarLine99,

👍

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