I don’t use the Play store (don’t want a Google account) and prefer to stay away Github because Microsoft. Thanks.
Added: Thanks for the links! Unfortunately it looks like the app requires Android 8.0+ and my phone is still on Android 7. Is that inherent to Jetpack or some other part of the app technology? It would be good to not have to keep churning to the latest shiny.
I forked this version to play around with it, I also found I couldn’t log in to Beehaw so I made this patch specifically bc of that.
I’m not sure whether the main developer would want to add my patches into an older version of the app, they are probably focused on improving the latest version. They are also running into a little trouble supporting multiple Android versions as it is, I wouldn’t want to inundate them with support requests from Android 5 to 7 users.
The fact there isn’t a tutorial might make it a little difficult. The profile screen usually uses display name. Profile might be used because a longer name might not fit well on one line.
I’m thinking of updating every now and then with new changes, when I have time and when breaking changes happen as it did with the Lemmy update.
Thanks, it’s hard to tell how many users are still on Android 7 but it seems to be fewer than I had expected. Still, if supporting the old versions isn’t difficult, I hope that upstream will accept it. Meanwhile I will try to be a little more open to getting another phone.
Numbers reported by Google as of May 30 2023… 92.4% have 8.0 or later. 3% have Android 7, 4% have Android 5 and 6, 0.5% still run less than 5.0.
That is pretty frightening. Lots of perfectly good phones must have gone in the trash. Maybe I will look for a used Pixel 4A.