2y ago

Sync for Lemmy pre-registration is now open

play.google.com Sync for Lemmy - Apps on Google Play

A beautiful Lemmy app for browsing Lemmy on the go!

Afternoon all,

Sync for Lemmy (Android) is now available for pre-registration on Google Play.

I'm currently working with 100 internal testers to add the final parts / resolve any issues and should be ready to go live within the next week.

I'll be emailing everyone that signed up with the previous form today too.

Cheers,

137 comments

Pre-registered! Can't wait!
- Bug, this is not animated
  
  Fixed
  
  It is in Liftoff.
  
  Animates fine on Connect too.
  
  Appear as a link in voyager
  
  I'm not even sure the link is formatted correctly? I don't think there needs to be text in parentheses of an embed.

Can't wait to say goodbye to Liftoff and welcome back Sync as my daily toilet scroll addiction
- I'm testing it now. Honestly you couldnt tell this isn't just like before. The main thing sync has over the other clients is speed. Scrolling the feed doesn't result in it jumping everwhere as images load in. They are already loaded and sized properly. And a million other little things and polish that make it amazing. (Posted from sync!)
  
  It's cool to see it so close to being ready, I'm looking forward to trying it out myself!
- I'm loving Liftoff, but I'm still excited about sync.
- Liftoff has been pretty great, Lemming looks polished already but it does not seem to be active anymore
- Ouch for the liftoff devs
  
  I'm sure it's nothing personal. For instance, I've been using Sync for reddit for over 10 years as my primary method of accessing reddit, so I know this is going to make me a lot more comfortable using Lemmy.
  
  I love liftoff but this is like going back home
  
  Nah I'll stay with liftoff. Never used sync.. came from baconreader and liftoff has the same vibe.
- Liftoff has been great. Really got me addicted again to a scrolling feed and the easier navigation. Was starting to break the habit because mobile browser isn't as slick. Been a sync user for over a decade so that'll be my daily driver when it's ready. There's nothing wrong with liftoff, it's just not where my heart is.
- I used RIF in Reddit, never used Sync for Reddit.
  Now I am using Liftoff here in Lemmy because is closer to the RIF experience among the apps I tried so far (Jerboa, Connect for Lemmy, Voyager).
  I am looking forward to see if the experience is closer to RIF than Liftoff, or not.
  
  I've been using Thunder for my RiF clone.

- I remember vividly the day I got a Nintendo 64 when I was a kid. I also had pizza that day.
  It was a good day.
  
  Oh yes, I remember, Christmas of 1998, my dad got it for me and my brother, had it with Body Harvest and F1 World Grand Prix, my Dad is an F1 fan, so got an absolutely awful V3 racing wheel to go with it. During covid, I got back into racing games, and went a little mental.

LFG hell yeah, great job man

Hi, something you might want to check before releasing; several current Lemmy apps are having trouble displaying lists of very large images. Either they try to load them all in one go, instead of going for the thumbnail as a preview (causing the app to crash), or they only get the preview and then don't show the full size when opening.
Example:
!RimWorldPorn@rimworld.gallery
- Seem to be working fine
  
  I'd love to try it
- Working fine for me as well using Sync

Yes! Really excited to try it out, have been missing Sync here!

LET'S GOOOOOOO
Will there be a sync pro as well?
- Currently being discussed in the discord. Likely to have free, pro (no ads) and ultra (extra features) similar to S4R

Before you forget:

Amazing, i registered! Is there an expected release date? And thanks again!
- Hoping within the next week.
  
  Awesome, you're the best!

based on the app screenshots, it looks amazing!! can't believe the hype is almost over!!

Just pre-registered! So excited!

Within the next week sounds much sooner than I though...!

Can't wait. I missed the reddit sync badly. Excited to use it again.

my beloved client 💕

I was a RIF user. Will I like Sync?
- I think so, I like sync because of its massive customisation potential, and it also offered some quick template like way to change them, so it was never overwhelming. You can make sync the way you like it, and I've been following the dev for a while as well. Truly passionate fellow.

Hell yeah, thank you for all your hard work!

Using Voyager and the devs have been more than awesome. I don't encounter any bugs on Android. Still gonna throw my money at Sync when it arrives though. Sync was the only reason I even used reddit. A bit wierd but before I stumbled on the Sync I couldn't even stand reddit. I was a Sync user, not a reddit user.

Will it also be released on F-Droid in the future?
- Sync for Reddit was not open source, so I doubt this will be.
  
  Ah, thanks for the info. Too bad.

Sweet :)

Wow! Congratulations! It's really weird - I feel like going back to reddit, because it looks and feels exactly like when I used Reddit back when it was awesome to do - through sync... But it's not reddit. Kinda tells me how much of my "Reddit experience" was actually not Reddit, but sync.
- Lol I was thinking just that, myself

Welcome back!
Sent from my Sync for Lemmy
- It's good to be home.

OK... I guess I'm an idiot... Where is the pre-reg on the playstore?
- You should just be able to click on the link in the title of this post.
  
  Omg... I'm a dummy. Thank you, stranger!
  
  Guess I can't do it from my phone, I get an error when I try to open in the play store

I guess I goofed the form as I can't find anything in my email, but I pre-registered through the play store! Super excited.

Connect keeps fucking eating my comments. Godspeed.

Great news! I just refuse to use Lemmy a lot without sync.

Huh, interesting it's not showing up in my play store, even Aurora either.
- Correction, it doesn't show up when I searched for it but the link works so thats good
- It's common for Google Play to not show newly released apps on search results.
- The application isn't released yet. Maybe that's why?

We're about to feast yall - and thank God im starving

So excited for this!

Let's fucking gooo!

Can't wait to give you my money again!

Oh shit let's go

Will it run without Google Play Services like Reddit Sync Pro did prior to v22?
Edit: answering my own question. Yes it runs on degoogled devices, at least this one with microg.
- Its distributed on Google play
  
  Yes, but there are alternative clients like Aurora which allow you to download your apps that you've purchased on Google Play. It essentially scrapes the Google Play website to get the apk that you have access to after purchasing.
  It's a different issue than requiring Google Play Services on the device. I think you implemented some new license checking in v22 which broke the app on degoogled devices (just a guess). V19 worked great.

Never used it. What does it do that Connect doesn't do?
- Honestly, to me, Connect feels much like Sync for Reddit did. Itvs to be expected that devs are going to learn from eachother in the process of developing for Lemmy, especially given the "youthfulness" of the platform.
- Never used connect, but give this app a try, it's magical.

Been a full time sync user for the last 5 years or so. Very excited to get it for lemmy. Thanks for all your hard work!

Hype!

LFG!!!

Can't wait!

Registered! Vibrating with anticipation!

I'm ready, boss!

Pre registered! Will this also have the option for the old style of comments? I've been using sync for so long that I prefer the old sync comments style to the new one lol.
- Yup
  
  https://tenor.com/bRbSD.gif

Awesome 😀

Will there be a Sync for iOS in the future? Not sure if this has been asked before and I missed it but I am curious.
- no. Sync has always been an android thing
  
  Any idea what this is? LJ doesn't seem to be the developer so I'm confused. I've seen an iOS user make a post here before and asking about it as if they were a past user of it
  https://www.reddit.com/r/sync_ios

I'm really looking forward to it! I've been using the novelty of Lemmy to try out a bunch of different apps, and I look forward to trying Sync for the first time.

Excellent. I can't wait. From the Play Store screenshots it looks gorgeous. I can't believe how far you've come in such little time. 🙏

registered

It's really awesome 👍

absolute legend !!

Oh I know I'm excited! Real quick though: what is it?
- It's an Android app for browsing Lemmy, from the developer of very well-loved app for browsing Reddit.