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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
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hoergen
hoergen  
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
Falgn0n The Wizard  
@Matthijs van Kempen fedilab doesn't even find my instance 😒
@Matthijs van Kempen
SoNak
SoNak  
Just enter your instance-name without "https://" (such as "libranet.de") to setup yout account.
Falgn0n The Wizard
Falgn0n The Wizard  
@sonak
Yeah, was doing that. Interestingly, i cleared the app's cache and reinstalled it. now, here I am posting from #fedilab 😄 (forgot how much i dislike typing on mobile)
#fedilab
Falgn0n The Wizard
Falgn0n The Wizard  
What fedilab does not seem to do for friendica is provide the Global timeline
SoNak
SoNak  
True. But i think most of the time you / i don't need that global timeline.
At the beginning Friendica on Fedilab is a litte bit confusing, because all post are shown in the order they come in. You get this hierarchical structure of posts and comments when you type on one of the posts.
Matthijs van Kempen
Matthijs van Kempen  
@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.
SoNak
SoNak  
Searching doesn't work on Friendica yet, you'll have to do that in your browser and add the wanted profiles there.
After doing so Fedilab will serve all followed profiles well.
Richard
Richard  
@Matthijs van Kempen try DiCa
@Matthijs van Kempen
SoNak
SoNak  
DiCa seems better and more nice than Friendiqa and supports more features (than Fedilab), but doesn't look as smooth as shown in Play-Store. (Particularly with regard to the used fonts it looks really ugly on my phone)
Falgn0n The Wizard
Falgn0n The Wizard  
@Matthijs van Kempen
I have to say that the website works pretty darned well on mobile (well, at least the Frio theme seems to)
@Matthijs van Kempen
Matthijs van Kempen
Matthijs van Kempen  
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
@Falgn0n The Wizard
Marco R.
Marco R.  
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
Matthijs van Kempen  

Filtered word: nsfw

Marco R.
Marco R.  
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 https://git.friendi.ca/lubuwest/friendiqa
Matthijs van Kempen
Matthijs van Kempen  
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
Matthijs van Kempen  
Really useful is the ' in reply to' for each post on the home screen. Friendica does not show it afaik.
Marco R.
Marco R.  
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.
Falgn0n The Wizard
Falgn0n The Wizard  
@Marco R.@Matthijs van Kempen
will it be available in F-Droid ?
@Marco R. @Matthijs van Kempen
Marco R.
Marco R.  
There is a binary repo at https://www.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.
SoNak
SoNak  
Great, just found it on FDroid by using the mentioned alternative resource because of this index file error. Let's try...
SoNak
SoNak  
..it actualized the "chronologisch"-timeline once and the crashes whenever trying to refresh (Android 9)

This reply is written with Friendiqa.
SoNak
SoNak  
...and after sending the comment, the timeline has been refreshed.

So this app forces writing post 😀
Marco R.
Marco R.  
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?
SoNak
SoNak  
@Marco R.
Yes, v0.5.2 via FDroid. Is there anything i can do to help finding this issue?
I am using LineageOS without any Google-stuff, the phone is not rooted.
@Marco R.
SoNak
SoNak  
The same on Android 7 (LineageOS, no root).
BUT: I just figured out, that it happens when there is exactly ONE new post waiting in the timeline. As soon as there are more than one, the refresh works.
So it looks like an index-error ([0] should be [1] or something like that)
Marco R.
Marco R.  
Thanks, I was able to reproduce the crash. I have to check.

The background sync shouldn't produce a crash...
Marco R.
Marco R.  
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.
Marco R.  
I published a new version with the workaround yesterday. I guess I have to wait for a new Qt version for a real fix.
Matthijs van Kempen
Matthijs van Kempen  
@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
Matthijs van Kempen  
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.
Richard
Richard  
@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.
@Matthijs van Kempen
Marco R.
Marco R.  
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...
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