I have Jerboa installed also and links open in that from the web browser, I’d rather they opened in Liftoff since it’s the one I seem to be using most.
I recently switched away from Jerboa to this and dont mind the option being disabled/not used. There are so many instances being used right now that it would be impossible to keep up I feel.
Liftoff actually does an incredible job over Jerboa with the links to other communities working way better and intuitive search methods that I feel like I will not be coming from search engine results for some time until the more prominent instances are more well known and indexed.
I know little about how apks work, but it would be pretty nice if the list could be updated in-app without updating the app itself. Then as you implied we’d just need a list of known instances.
I asked about this before and it seems the list of urls is fixed and can’t be changed in-app. Jerboa just has a huge list of active instances pulled from wherever. Liftoff should just do that.
We don’t really want to do that because it’s impossible for us to keep it up to date. Instead we’re going a browser redirection route using app deep links with a tool called:
Very cool. Glad you got it sorted!
I don’t know if it would help here, but we do hook into the deep-linking functionality if you use the “liftoff” protocol, so rewriting a link such as https://lemmy.world/post/1506733 to be liftoff://lemmy.world/post/1506733 would open it in Liftoff!
This prompted me to write a little Shortcuts script to add to my share sheet for iOS now. Is there something similar that could be done on Android?
I’ve used that with other apps in android, but liftoff don’t seen to work
liftoff://lemmy.world/post/1506733
Are you saying that opening that URL in your browser doesn’t open it in Liftoff?
Yes, just give me a blank screen on my browser, i tried with different instances and none of them worked, not even that link.
Okay, could you raise that as an issue in GitHub so our Android devs can see it? Sounds like you’ve done some good testing there.
No problem, i will do that once i’m home, i will also install a chromium based browser to test, i used fennec (firefox based) to test before
