I’ve had enough of the text editing issue, where when you press backspace it highlights the space before the word and ends up deleting it. The developer passes off responsibility for this to the engine they use and seems to have no intention of addressing it.
What are the pros and cons of the other Android apps? I’m only considering ones on F-Droid, not the Play Store, so that rules out Summit and Boost. Ones I have available are:
- Thunder (IzzyOnDroid)
- Interstellar (IzzyOnDroid)
- Voyager
- Eternity
- muffed (IzzyOnDroid)
- Combustible
Voyager is fantastic.
I’ve tried pretty much every app there is and ended up with Thunder. It’s got a huge amount of features and polish, a clean UI and gets regular updates. The only issue is that I don’t see the number of upvotes on posts since my home instance upgraded Lemmy, though that will probably get fixed soon.
I went from Jerboa to Eternity to Thunder. I liked Eternity a lot but it doesn’t get developed very actively which causes issues. Spoiler tags for example aren’t implemented correctly. Voyager seems to be great as well from all I have heard, but I don’t like its UI.
UI preference is a key decider, imo!
That’s why I support Eternity (and Infinity before that), but also use Voyager (I have a lot of others installed too, but they sleep).
I went from Jerboa to Eternity to Raccoon to Voyager. I have to say Voyager is the most mature lemmy app when it comes to current features, development of new features, customizability and stability.
I use Jerboa with zero problems. My keyboard is OpenBoard with Gesture Typing (similar to Swype) and I have none of the issues you report.
Yeah others are saying it’s to do with the keyboard, or rather that other keyboards seem to get around the bug. However it’s only Jerboa that I have this issue with.
I’m using the standard Android Keyboard (AOSP), so it’s not something you would expect to have errors. Don’t really want to change as I’m used to it and have it set up for different nationalities (Greek for maths, couple other countries for their funky accented letters).
Once you try swiping to type, you never want to go back. And OpenBoard has Greek letters of course. Honestly, give it a spin - regardless of your problem with Jerboa: I bet you’ll love it. Worst case, you’ll have wasted 10 minutes installing it, trying it out without success and uninstalling it 🙂
You can get Summit from the repo (https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy) using Obtainium (https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.imranr.obtainium.fdroid/)
I want it through an F-Droid repo so I can use the elevated priveleges I give F-Droid, such that I don’t have to approve each install.
Makes sense!
Muffed & Combustible, seem to be dead, Interstellar early development it seems & more geared towards Kbin… Eternity (very good) recently had a update after months of inactivity, whereas Voyager & Thunder (both excellent) have active devs and continuous support & updates…
Looks like I’ll lean towards Voyager and Thunder, might give Eternity a go also. I had Voyager before but was sticking it out with Jerboa, we’ll see how I feel this time. Thanks!
You can’t really go wrong with either of those, I do lean towards Voyager as a personal preference… Raccoon is another that I really like, but I’m not sure if that will see any further development…🤷🏻♂️
what phone do you have?
use whatever app you want, I’m just curious because I’ve been using jerboa since the beginning without any issues, im on a pixel 6.
did you try using a different keyboard?
Part of the reason for the move is upgrading from a Poco F3 to a Pixel 7 Pro (although I’m sad to lose the IR blaster). However I run custom ROMs, so I’ve been using the keyboard that comes with DivestOS and AXP.OS. Don’t really want to try another keyboard lol but others have said that might fix it.
got it.
i hope the 7 is good, I’m donnne with pixels after this guy.
i hear they’re great with custom roms but haven’t tried replacing mine yet.
Yeah DivestOS ticks nearly all the boxes for me (eg call recording and custom gestures eg long press back to force close), however there were a few little niggles that custom ROMs have with other manufacturers - the camera is usually closed source so you can’t quite get all out of it, and also I was having issues with pocket detection where a message or call would turn my screen on and then it would either answer in my pocket or mess with the audio player on the lock screen. Not had any of those issues so far with the Pixel.
However curved screens suck balls, and the cheap screen protector I got is already cracked lol.
haha, dang. man the stock camera pixel 6 app is horseshit for me, even taking .raw photos it applies filters and effects that there’s no way to disable.
over been wondering if camera apps are the alt option to go for, but i take videos much more often than I take photos anyway, so it isn’t too frustrating…except every single time I want to take a candid picture haha.
yea curved screens can get outta here.
have you tried grapheneos? everyone was encouraging me to try that on one of my pixel 6 rants some months ago.
I was tempted by GrapheneOS, my son used it for a while on his older Pixel, but I always resented all the diva drama from the devs. AXP.OS seemed like an easy transition, basically using the same ROM as my old phone (AXP.OS is a DivestOS fork).
yea that one dev sounded like such a douche I stopped considering it, didn’t really want to be associated with the whole scene.
well nice, enjoy and good luck on finding your next preferred client app.
Sorry to fork the conversation, but I noticed nobody mentioned connect. Are these other apps really a lot better?.
Based on the Megathread, Connect doesn’t have an F-Droid repo.
Oooh. Yup. I need coffee. Thanks.
I tried the paid ones like Boost and Sync but eventually have settled on Thunder. It mostly just works and is still being actively developed
I’ve never had this happen, does it need a special set of circumstances?
I get a similar glitch with all keyboards based on AOSP (openboard, etc), where pressing backspace randomly jumps back a few words
I eventually switched back to swiftkey because it was unbearable
I also have never seen that behavior. And even if, would it matter in any way how it handles the backspace key?
It’s an absolute pain in the ass. When you press backspace once, the underline for autocorrect extends to the space before the word, then when you press it again it deletes the space, merging it with the word before. It will keep doing this over and over if you keep pressing backspace. You then have to go through and position the cursor just so in the middle of the word to add the spaces back - or, if you don’t notice it, you submit the comment and then have to edit it, which marks your comment and makes it dirty (lol, one thing I loved about reddit was the 3 minute leeway for edits).
I still fail to see that this is an issue. I use the backspace key only when I make a mistake. You seem to hang up the whole user experience of an app off it. Just make less mistakes that require you to use backspace.
I make little typos all the time, and often go back and edit things to change the shape of my comment. The backspace thing is a little thing, but it’s persistent and frequently annoying.
Also *fewer :p
Basically when you press backspace the underline for autocorrect extends over the space before the word, then when you press backspace again it deletes that space. Every other press of backspace will delete the space before, completely messing up the text when you’re just trying to make a minor correction. You then have the hassle of pixel hunting to get the cursor in the middle of the word where the space was to add it back again.
Ok my bad seems like I recalled incorrectly, your description fits exactly my experience. It’s the keyboard
It’s not really the keyboard though, the keyboard works fine everywhere else. It’s a poor implementation from the text editor that Jerboa uses, one that other keyboards have created a workaround for. But the issue is in the text editor.
It’s like when a website only works in Chrome, but doesn’t work in Firefox. It isn’t because Firefox is broken, it’s because the website doesn’t follow web standards and has only been tested in Chrome.
I see, there’s the keyboard on one side and the text editor on the other, and they don’t mesh well ? that makes more sense
Sync is the shit.
They rule out the play store.
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I was on Artemis and then Jerboa and now Thunder (probably a few others in between).
Artemis was going to be great but is no more, sadly.
Jerboa I just couldn’t like. I think my biggest issue when I was using it was you could only search for community names? I can’t remember exactly I just remember the difficulty searching was the last straw for me.
Thunder is great. I don’t think I have any complaints. It works as I need it to and probably has a bunch of features that I don’t use. It’s pretty new still so I’m trying not to get too attached lol but it’s updated pretty regularly, commenting works well, it allows you to preview before posting. Search seems to work great. I guess the only issue is the delay in notifications? Not really an issue for me but I guess if you’re having a more immediate conversation in the comments it might be.
Yup. I’ve been using Eternity and I like it but it doesn’t mean you would.
Yeah I mean ultimately they should all end up with the same features, then it comes down to which UI you like the best.
