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Please note, it’s currently a slightly outdated version of Voyager.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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Did we just get like 3 new apps drop in about 2 days?
Sync, Infinity and Voyager. Omg.
The public beta for Artemis was also released two days ago. It’s amazing how so many apps are popping up!
Apple Watch app
Woah! Is this a first? Actually sounds kinda cool.
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)
How do I install it?
Is there a possibility of it being released on F-Droid?
Or just an apk download?
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
Wait, infinity has a Lemmy fork? What’s it called?
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
Installing my 7th Lemmy client then…:)
It’s fun to try them all.
It’s 12th for me
Two apps in as many days. Excited to try it out!
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
theimages, it will help increase user experience tremendously.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.
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.
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
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?
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 👍
Congrats on the launch, exciting times to be sure!
Can anyone comment and how’s the battery performance of the native app compared to the PWA?
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.
