Voyager released to Google Play!

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

Sync, Infinity and Voyager. Omg.

Apple Watch app

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

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

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

Or just an apk download?

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

It's fun to try them all.

Edit: It's not available on Play Store for me at least.

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 👍

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 the images, it will help increase user experience tremendously.

Thank you for somehow making the best and most featured app for all of lemmy.

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?

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.

Just grabbed it and it's working great so far. I'm not really clear on the pros/cons of using a native app vs a web app, but so far the experience is pretty much identical.

Edit: I'll also add that if there's ever a "premium" version that's just the same app only paid so people can support it with their dollars, I will be happy to use my Google Play points on that.

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

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.

Thanks! It's my favourite app for lemmy. Even the pwa was better than many other native apps. I've some minor suggestions if you're open to them.

1. The back button on the Android app doesn't exit the app no matter pressed how many times.
2. The vibration feels a bit off while upvoting even on the app. I mean it doesn't have the same "punch" to it like it should.
3. Material you icon theming would be nice.

Kudos to you and the team for making this app happen. It is one of the greatest lemmy apps.

I love the subreddit migration tool.

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.

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.

Thanks for the app, everything is working fine!

Am using it already. Smooth as butter.

Congrats on the launch, exciting times to be sure!

I’m chomping at the bit of the thought of this coming to iOS especially as a former Apollo user.

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?

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!)

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?

Thanks for creating Voyager (Wefwef), been using it as my goto - works great 👍

Native app oh my godsh ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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

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.

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

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

I don't know how but I feel the haptics work better here than in any other app in my phone!

I use Chromes password manager, but the app doesn't allow to auto fill the contents. Maybe that could be a possible improvement! Great job!!

yes!!! finally!!!!

So I just checked my wishlist and this app popped up and is now a available and compatible and I just installed it. So thanks for the fix.

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

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

Yooooo

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.

Congrats! Looks good

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

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

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.

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

First annoying bug I guess: when you try to swipe down to scroll up in a profile view it tries to refresh the page. I don't have this issue with the PWA.

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

Thank you so much!

Thank you! It works great and I love it.

This is my go-to app for Lemmy now!

Does it use my blocked communities list from the web app, or do I need to start again?

Again and again this app is fantastic

What's the privacy and data concerns looking like for this app?

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!