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Bookwyrm Android Client

Does anyone know if there might be an android client for Bookwyrm. F-droid has one but it's not been update in 5 months. I tried using fedi-lab but it couldn't seem to connect to the instance I'm using

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There's no API yet. Openreads is contemplating adding support.

See: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/785
- Patience then
  
  Yes. On the plus side, the website works well on mobile.
IMHO the website is sufficiently usable on a mobile browser. You can still use "add to home screen" to have a shortcut on your favorite launcher.
- On Android (A53) if that matters, but whenever I try to do that with bookwyrm it crashes my phone, and it forces a restart whenever I try to open it.
  
  On my a52s I have tried with Mozilla without issue. Maybe try different browsers?
The F-Droid app is basically a browser that lets you stay logged in which is quite comfy.
- It hasn't been updated in 5 months is that normal for that app?
  
  it uses Android's webview, which is a chromium browser that comes with Android by default to be used inside apps. This means that it does not need to be updated frequently, since it is just a wrapper for Android's webview. And bookwyrm itself is updated on the server side and sent to your browser, so no need to update that locally either.
  
  From reading their github's repo, the only thing the developer adding is a barcode scanning for books to be used within webview. Not sure how many updates that thing needs, probably not many.
  
  In conclusion, as long as webview is updated (important, browsers are a security nightmare) and your Bookwyrn instance is updated too, there should be nothing to worry about even if the app itself isn't updated in a year or more.
  
  It think it's a fire and forget kind of app, so I wouldn't expect any updates besides occasional dependency updates.

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