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Matthijs van Kempen via Friendica Support friendica (via ActivityPub)

Friendica on Android

I tried two apps: Fedilab and Friendiqa. Fedilab regularly responds with 'errorcode 500' and Friendiqa is very unpolished and alos buggy.

Can you recommend an alternative? I prefer exploring over testing.

!Friendica Support

hoergen (Ai) friendica (via ActivityPub)
Seems more like a server problem. Fedilab is working fine with my server and the people i know using it. But maybe @Fedilab an help ?
Falgn0n The Wizard friendica (via ActivityPub)
@Matthijs van Kempen fedilab doesn't even find my instance πŸ˜’
Matthijs van Kempen friendica (via ActivityPub)

@falgn0n
After leavibg out the https and checking the manual on how to login on my instance, I succeeded, but it took a lot of patience.

The app itself tries to cater for so many platforms that overall it does a bad job of it. I still have not found a way to view public profiles on other instances.

Falgn0n The Wizard friendica (via ActivityPub)
@Matthijs van Kempen
I have to say that the website works pretty darned well on mobile (well, at least the Frio theme seems to)
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Falgn0n The Wizard friendica (via ActivityPub)
@sonak
Yeah, was doing that. Interestingly, i cleared the app's cache and reinstalled it. now, here I am posting from #fedilab πŸ˜„ (forgot how much i dislike typing on mobile)
Falgn0n The Wizard friendica (via ActivityPub)
What fedilab does not seem to do for friendica is provide the Global timeline
Matthijs van Kempen friendica (via ActivityPub)
@sonak
Thank you. I will try Dica.
Matthijs van Kempen friendica (via ActivityPub)

O no! Severe duh!
I am typing this in my trusty browser in Android.

All is well in the world. Thank you stating the obvious @Falgn0n The Wizard

Marco R. friendica

Which bugs did you encounter with Friendiqa? Where did you find it unpolished? I don't get much feedback for the app.

Btw. I just uploaded a new version to the Play store. There is also a UI change in the new version.

Matthijs van Kempen friendica (via ActivityPub)
As for unfinished. The buttons are tiny, the font sizes seem to be different. Goid example is tge settings. Why the slider for sync size instead of nunrric field! and the tiny check box for nsfw?
Marco R. friendica

There is a numeric field for the sync size, the slider is only for convenience. Android JobService restricts intervals to a minimum of 15 minutes. So it makes sense to use the slider.

For the other points I opened issues at git.friendi.ca/lubuwest/friend…

Matthijs van Kempen friendica (via ActivityPub)
I got a bug. I managed to open the settings page and the conversations at the same time. Replying did not work. The keyboard opens, but no text field is shown.
Matthijs van Kempen friendica (via ActivityPub)
Really useful is the ' in reply to' for each post on the home screen. Friendica does not show it afaik.
Marco R. friendica

Which bugs did you encounter with Friendiqa? Where did you find it unpolished? I don't get much feedback for the app.

Btw. I just uploaded a new version to the Play store. There is also a UI change in the new version.

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Marco R. friendica
There is a binary repo at ma-nic.de/fdroid/repo. It will never be in the official fdroid repo, because it is a Qt app with small Java part. The fdroid build server can only compile Java projects.
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Matthijs van Kempen friendica (via ActivityPub)
@pankraz
Hold on. I will uninstall, install the new version. Try it out for s few days and then send you specific feedback
Matthijs van Kempen friendica (via ActivityPub)

Installed the new version.

Got confused on login page after entering the url, I pressed the + contact to the right of nickname field, expecting to look up the names of public profiles on the instance. That did not work. When I returned, the login screen was cleared. Not a bug exactly, but confusing.

Marco R. friendica

Did you install the current version 0.5.2? You find the version number at config--> question mark.

Did you refresh via pull-to-refresh or via left drawer? Was there any error message or was it a complete crash of the app?

Marco R. friendica

Thanks, I was able to reproduce the crash. I have to check.

The background sync shouldn't produce a crash...

Marco R. friendica
There seems to be a problem with insert function of Qt Listmodel. This worked flawlessly for years. I have to build a workaround. Thank you for the feedback!
Marco R. friendica
I published a new version with the workaround yesterday. I guess I have to wait for a new Qt version for a real fix.
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Richard wordpress (via ActivityPub)
@Matthijs van Kempen Would it be possible for Friendica to notice the position within the timeline and for new posts to be loaded above the point at which you are reading? So that an uninterrupted reading of the contributions is possible from old to new.
Marco R. friendica
When the app starts, the news are displayed from new to old. In order to display from old to new, I have to save the current item with every scroll. Furthermore it makes only sense in chronological timeline (I prefer the conversation timeline). I will consider it...