Is there a working Discourse smartphone app?

Hey,

is there a working app for using discourse a bit easier on the smartphone? There seems to be an official app, but it doesn’t work for me at all.

Browser.

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most mobile browsers offer to “Install” the forum, which means that the forum is added to the homescreen and then behaves like it was opened as a separate app, but technically it is still running as a browser tab.
That’s the only way I know off and I use it from time to time.

I guess there is Lexicon but that would require the Discourse host to configure (If I understand correctly). Otherwise, I don’t think that anyone has ever been able to get that DiscourseHub app to work :crazy_face:

@fbodymechanic do you have issues with Firefox-based browsers on GrapheneOS? I have tried Firefox, FF Nightly, and Fennec and all of them have major problems with freezing and broken UI elements. I have found tying to use the forum with Firefox is next to impossible. No issues with Chromium-based browsers.

Just curious since I noticed you’re running GrapheneOS too. Hopefully the off-topic nature of my comment will be forgiven.

I use DiscourseHub on my iPhone

https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/d2lq23/criticism_of_firefox_on_android_by_the_grapheneos/
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/4092-web-browser-and-sandboxes

They claim it breaks some of their security model… :man_shrugging:
I wonder about Tor :rofl:

I use Firefox for my stuff and vandium for work/normal searches.

I’ve always used bromite for the web apps, but someone just told me it’s a dead project.

I will give it a shot but I’ve not had any noticeable issues with Firefox. I’m on a pixel 6.

Yes. I use it on my android and it’s quite nice.

For me, the web view experience does not work well. So I developed a native client myself. I would really appreciate if you could give it a shot and tell me what you think