I don’t use the Play store (don’t want a Google account) and prefer to stay away Github because Microsoft. Thanks.

Added: Thanks for the links! Unfortunately it looks like the app requires Android 8.0+ and my phone is still on Android 7. Is that inherent to Jetpack or some other part of the app technology? It would be good to not have to keep churning to the latest shiny.

  • chi-chan~@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 years ago

    Not exactly the solution you were looking for, but might help.

    You can use Lemmur (F-Droid), or Thunder (IzzyOnDroid) instead.

    Both of them require only Android 4 (or higher).

    There is the new app Lemmynade, but it’s on GitHub (they are planning to have it on F-Droid too).

    E: spacing

    • solrize@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      Thanks, I noticed Lemmur while looking on F-droid for Lemmy but saw it hadn’t been updated in 10 months so figured it was out of date. I just installed it and tried it and I only see a spinner icon, including when I select Lemmy.ml in the pulldown. I can try Lemmynade if there is a .apk on Github but I think building Android apps takes more tools and stuff than I want to deal with at the moment.

      Edit: I installed Lemmynade from Github but something very similar happens, it starts with a spinner, and when I try to connect to lemmy.world (the only specific host offered), it fails with an SSL connection error (failed certificate verification). That may again be an Android version comptibility problem, if the .apk is signed with a cert from a CA that isn’t in Android 7’s root store, or something like that.

      I hope issues like this can be sorted out. RedReader installs and works on my phone without problems. Lemmy in general seems to be more “modern” than Reddit in a not-good-way, using a lot of shiny but unreliable tech, thus the constant fails logging in, posting, etc.