Probably won’t be using this but always nice to see many different options for apps being developed
I’m stupid, I don’t know how to use anything that isn’t an app on the play store.
Eta: thanks everyone, I’ll get my SO to translate after work lol.
You download and install the APK file. When prompted to allow your browser to allow installation from unknown sources, you grant the permission.
Having been through the process of getting apps through the play store and chrome store admission process a few times my suggestion is:
Don’t.
They caught me inadvertently misusing public APIs, performing unnecessarily battery draining ops and plain privacy right violations so often that I certainly don’t want to use other apps that didn’t go through the process. As a dev it is super annoying, but as a user it is exactly as annoying as I hope it is.
Anecdotal evidence of course and probably an unpopular opinion around here.
I recommend installing Obtainium. In Obtainium, click Add App and then paste the Codeberg URL for Infinity for Lemmy: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy
Obtainium will take care of installing and updating from various code repositories whether they’re hosted on GitHub or Codeberg or some other place.
I get “Could not find a suitable release” when I try to add it to Obtainium on my Pixel 7 Pro
It’s fairly simple on modern Android. You simply download the APK file, and open it. It will then walk you through the install process.
If you haven’t installed an app from your web browser before, you’ll get a prompt saying your security settings don’t allow the browser to install apps. There will be a settings link there. Tap that link and you’ll get a list of apps that have the capability to install things. Find your web browser in the list and tap the toggle to give it permission, then back out. Then your app will install.
Slightly off topic. Obtainium sees that there’s an update to 0.0.7, but can’t seem to update 0.0.6. It downloads, tries to update, and boom - update available, with currently installed 0.0.6. Uninstall, reinstall, 0.0.6 again. I guess that’s just an Obtainium issue. A little weird though.
Obtainium has a setting just for issues like this.
Click on Infinity for Reddit in the app >click edit button bottom left > change Version Detection option to Use Release Date As Version
I must have missed that, as I selected No Version Detection and ended up on 0.0.6 again. Thanks for the heads up!
Nice! Hoping for Kbin support as soon as it’s API gets available!
Infinity for kbin when??^^
It also became my main app for Lemmy (I had like 6 installed). And the Dev is working really fast. Every 24-48 he drops some cool stabilizing updates.