cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2613340
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Please note, it’s currently a slightly outdated version of Voyager.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!
Why does it looks like an iOS app
I hate it when they do it.
I was on a development end of this and managers always pushed for the ios and android apps to be identical. It always ended up being the ios being the main and android being the afterthought copy.
Whenever i see an android app trying to look like ios, it signals that the quality is lacking.
Yeah and I get that they want to do one code base like that, but tbh just use electron at that point and do your own design.
It’s definitely Not lacking in quality. I’ve never used an iOS app, so I don’t really know what people mean when they say it looks like an iOS app, but Voyager (formerly wefwef) is a great app.
It’s inspired by Apollo, which is also why the dev called it Voyager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program
You can change the look on
Setting> Appearance > Theme > Device mode > android (Beta)
Ehh the app certainly isn’t for me. Seems like plenty of other people aren’t bothered by it
What i like from voyager is the “mark as read on scroll” setting. This makes it so i get something new every time I open the app without having to mark as read every post that I came across
Sync has that option which is nice. I’ll probably swap to Boost for Lemmy when that comes out, which also had that option before.