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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Is there a way to view #Gopher on Android using #OpenSource?

The only client I can fond on F-Droid was last updated 7 years ago 🫠

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@LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent @tosbourn

Lagrange is a FOSS client that also supports Gemini, Gopher, Finger, and Spartan. It's on F-droid as well as other stores and is actively maintained, and has a nice interface designed by @jk who is a graphic designer at Nokia and also wrote the Doomsday Engine!

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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Turns out the answer was, as always, Lynx!

In Termux running `lynx gopher://whatever` works pretty well and doesn't rely on ancient APKs.

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@HKB3@muenchen.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent
thanks for the hint: Works perfect!

Btw.: there is still one german newspaper running a gopher server 😄 @tazgetroete

Screenshot: gopher://taz.de
Screenshot: gopher://taz.de
Screenshot: gopher://taz.de
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@homer@tuiter.rocks replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent As already mentioned, you can use #Lagrange as a browser for #Gopher on Android. The latest versions of this program are here:

https://codeberg.org/skyjake/lagrange/releases

Codeberg.org

lagrange

A Beautiful Gemini Client
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@b34n5@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent You can use Lagrange for Gopher navigation. The app can be used for the Gemini protocol as well.

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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@b34n5 I can't find an Android version of that - can you share a link, please?

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@b34n5@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent You need to add the repository to F-Droid. Here's the link: https://skyjake.github.io/fdroid/repo/

Lagrange Pre-Release

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Philip Wittamore
Philip Wittamore
@venelles@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent gophercle is the only one I found, but last update was 3 years ago

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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@venelles Thanks!

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@happy@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent

Overbite still works fine although as I understand things the Android branch is no longer being updated.

https://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/d?android

Screenshot of Overbite for Android showing the floodgap gopher hole.
Screenshot of Overbite for Android showing the floodgap gopher hole.
Screenshot of Overbite for Android showing the floodgap gopher hole.

Overbite for Android: Installation/Upgrade Directions

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@happy@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent

There are also proxy services allowing one to view gopher from a Web browser such as the one found Floodgap https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/

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Harsh Shandilya
Harsh Shandilya
@msfjarvis@androiddev.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent Doesn't seem like it, my search a few months ago came up similarly empty.

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Henryk Plötz
Henryk Plötz
@henryk@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@Edent Tbf, there have not been a lot of changes to the gopher protocol in the past 7 years.

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Terence Eden
Terence Eden
@Edent@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@henryk sure, but there have been a *lot* of changes to Android in that time. Both in terms of UI and security model.

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Billie
Billie
@Billie@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@neil @Edent

Amazing that you run a gopher server. Just tried it out. 👍

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Dan Sloane
Dan Sloane
@dans@mastodon.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@neil Trying this makes me very happy. @Edent

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