Eudaimon ꙮ

Using an Android client with Hubzilla

Eudaimon ꙮ

Barcelona, Sat, 26 May 2018 20:03:09 +0200

Does anyone know if it is possible to use decently any Android client with Hubzilla? I have tried Twidere, following some instructions (Add a Twitter account, change server to https://[hub URL]/api, change auth method to Basic), but does not work well: it does fetch account name and avatar, but it force-closes the app when trying to refresh home timeline. With Andstatus, I just couldn't add an account for this node (hub.disroot.org)

cc/ @andstatus@loadaverage.org

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fadelkon

Sun, 27 May 2018 20:10:32 +0200

Well, I like a lot the small web theme, how it looks from Android's Firefox. Maybe an ActivityPub compatible app would do, or the diaspora one... Anyway, if you look at @Hubzilla Support Forum there was a post exactly about this and I think the answer was "quite not"

Eudaimon ꙮ

Sun, 27 May 2018 23:24:28 +0200

👍🙏✨ Thanks!

muppeth

Sun, 27 May 2018 23:54:15 +0200

In next days I will try to hack an old diaspora webview app to make it compatible with hubzilla. It would be a good starting point. I hope someone with more skills could actually later make use of proper API that hubzilla has, and create proper native app for mobile.

Eudaimon ꙮ

Mon, 28 May 2018 19:57:33 +0200

I see the mention to @andstatus didn't work in my first post. Let's see if now it does, and Andstatus' tireless and constant developer Yuri sees it 😉, and I take this opportunity to thank him (again)

andstatus

Tue, 29 May 2018 09:16:01 +0200 from AndStatus

@eudaimon Thank you for the kind feedback.
Regarding #Hubzilla I don't remember any specific changes for #AndStatus compatibility with it. But we worked on this for #Friendica some time ago https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/55

andstatus friendica hubzilla

Eudaimon ꙮ

Tue, 29 May 2018 21:42:07 +0200

Thanks! I didn't succeed, though. I have tried all the server types (except for Twitter, which directs me to the Twitter login page)

andstatus

Sun, 08 Jul 2018 08:08:50 +0200 from AndStatus

@eudaimon I really found a bug with getting actors' avatars for actor, which are present in different fediverse instances. #AndStatus could mistakenly ask the wrong host for the actor's information

The bug is present since AndStatus started to merge logically actors (and their lists of activities) of different Social networks by their Webfinger Id. The fix will be in v.41

andstatus

Eudaimon ꙮ

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:10:50 +0200

Thanks!

andstatus

Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:47:56 +0200 from AndStatus

@eudaimon Regarding #Hubzilla support in #AndStatus. As reported a couple of days ago "the client works almost flawlessly after updating to 3.6 (twitter_api had been previously enabled)" Meaning, after Hubzilla server upgrade.
https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/294

andstatus hubzilla

Eudaimon ꙮ

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:40:00 +0200

Thanks! I've been out for a few days.

Well, at least for hub.disroot.org it still doesn't work. Actually, I have tried to remove and create the account again and now it doesn't let me create it. I use a new network of type GNU Social, with host hub.disroot.org, and the following config (note: I use it in Catalan, so maybe my translation into English is not acurate):
SSL: yes
SSL type: secure SSL
Allow HTML content: yes
Mention as @ webfingerid: Auto
Use legacy HTTP protocol: Auto
Include in "Search in Internet"...: Yes
Include in "Syncin"...: Yes

If as username I put my full username (myusername@disroot.org) it says it is an invalid user name. If I put my username without the @ disroot.org, it returns this error:

A connection error occurred
Status code=UNAUTHORIZED; HARD; statusLine:'HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized'; statusLine:'HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized'; statusCode:UNAUTHORIZED (401); url:'https://hub.disroot.org/api/account/verifycredentials.json'; authenticated; response:'This api requires login'; error='?'; Caused by org.json.JSONException: Value This type of java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONObject

Now I don't remember if when I managed to minimally use Andstatus with this node I followed this steps or not. However, what was happening just before I removed the half-working account and tried to create it again, is that only my own messages and direct mentions to me were appearing, and a spurious message at the top, as a temp user (can't put more details because now I can't reproduce it). Your last message (the one you wrote 10 days ago) didn't appear, though.
So, no luck for me with Andstatus and Hubzilla :/ Maybe it is because of how is this particular instance configured, I haven't tried others.
Anyway, many many thanks again 🙏🏻

Massimiliano

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:03:02 +0200

@EuKombos ꙮ
We are working on a client for Hubzilla. You can find it here:
https://cloud.disroot.org/s/p26pCqo7gwMjxMs

Feel free to try it out.

Massimiliano

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:04:49 +0200

Almost forgot.

Here you find the source code.
https://framagit.org/disroot/AndHub

Any developing help is welcome

Eudaimon ꙮ

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:14:24 +0200

@Massimiliano Thanks! Actually it is the client I use, when in mobile phone. It would be almost perfect if it could notify of mentions, reposts, likes or dislikes. Or maybe I haven't found how to do it

elmussol

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:30:31 +0200 last edited: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:32:23 +0200

@EuKombos ꙮ Erm, it does.

Edit: The top right icon next to hamburger with the ! on it.

Eudaimon ꙮ

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 20:57:06 +0200

@elmussol 🙏🏻 Yes, that's an in-app notification, but I'd like it to also use Android's notification system (with sound and an icon in notification area in status bar, that would be great).
Unfortunately, I can't program much. I used to program a little bit many years ago, but I haven't done anything since then, so I don't feel I could contribute with coding... 😔

Massimiliano

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 23:04:46 +0200

I'm not a developer either. I started to work on the app with the hope to get some help afterwards.

Massimiliano

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 23:14:29 +0200

Most important! i started after the idea of @muppeth to hack Dandelion* to make it work with Hubzilla.

Eudaimon ꙮ

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