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Please note, it’s currently a slightly outdated version of Voyager.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!

  • Draz@lemmy.fmhy.netEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    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

  • kenbw2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

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

    Or just an apk download?

  • tzutolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    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 👍

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • boyi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • aeharding@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks! That’s very strange, image loading and caching is handled by the browser and should be quite fast.

      The only thing I can think of is sync has a max height for images in feed and can set thumbnail option for their requests?

      • boyi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hi dev, got an update. As you said that’s very strange as it is handled by browser, this make me think that it is a browser specific issue. I just found out that my default browser, Firefox, has a tendency to auto reload tab, - that explains it. I’ve installed addon to mitigate the issue - it seems to work.

        As for implementing auto-cached as sync did, I can sense now that might be beyond your control as voyager relies on external browser to work.

        • aeharding@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh, I’m glad you figured it out! I still think there may be a workaround for this, so keep an eye out for next release.

  • Myro@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    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?

  • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • aeharding@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Interesting! The code is the same, so it may be a Capacitor Haptics bug (translating wrong haptic)? It’s technically using a different API for haptics under the hood.

      There will be an update to disable haptics shortly if it’s annoying :)

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • HWK_290@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      For me, it’s that the app was sluggish on Firefox but not on chrome. But it turns out, with unlock, the internet is a terrible place! So links were unreadable

      The dedicated app is the best of both worlds. Fast and responsive, but can use my default browser (Firefox) for links

  • sma3in@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    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

  • portside@monyet.ccEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    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.