bitlbee VS NativeAlphaForAndroid

ah didn't realize it had gone away. its successor appears to be [0]

now I'm reliving the chaos of the late-00s/early-10s instant messaging apocalypse when AOL sunsetted AIM. Clients like Trillian were absolutely necessary before AIM shut down. Everybuddy was a good linux-friendly client. When I still spent time on IRC, I really really liked Bitlbee [1] with ERC [2].

(I'm not saying that there's a connection there, but rather that all the chat protocols started getting used less around the same time for the same reason, which was smartphones becoming commonplace in late-00s.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayttm

[1] https://www.bitlbee.org/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html

I use purple-discord (libpurple/Pidgin plugin) + BItlBee (IRC chat gateway, libpurple variant) + Quassel (distribued IRC client, like a bouncer) on a home server, and use Quasseldroid to connect on mobile. I would eventually like to simplify this setup.

I used to have a similar setup to use IRC for everything using https://www.bitlbee.org. Fun times!

Another approach to this is to use bitlbee's twitter support and your favorite Emacs IRC client to access that. This is especially nice if you are using bitlbee anyway.

I agree with this 100%. I used to use their app several years ago. I loved the super accuracy. Then they made drastic changes to the app that I hated. Uninstalled it and now use NativeAlpha to create a pseudo app for it.

Before I lay down the steps know that this tutorial is specifically for the "WebApps Sandboxed Browser" on Android. For another Android app you can get "Native Alpha" through the download options here: https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid. For this one you have to figure out the steps by yourself because I've not used if myself yet. The advantage of this one is that it has a more recent last update though WebApps Sandboxed Browser works fine in my experience. For iPhone user I'm sorry but you have to find a webapp alternative by yourself(if it exists). If you do please share it here.

A mobile app is not yet available (but apparently in the works), so I personally recommend the use of an application such as Native Alpha to mimic an installed app. KBin seems to work fine on mobile browsers, as well.

I setup Reddit mobile site on Native Alpha as a webapp, much better than official app, but not compared to Infinity

On android, theres a an app called Native Alpha which utilizes Android's built in Web View to isolate specific websites makes them into app-like feeling. Instead of in-browser tabs, it appears as separate individuals on the task manager. One can even set the website setting individually like javascript on/off, https, cookies, etc.

On android I use NativeAlpha for setting up Briefsky as app that opens in its own Android Webview app rather than a browser. It's almost like DarkSky minus the notifications.

https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid

I use Native alpha which uses android system webview for web apps like facebook and others

Run Discord in [Native Alpha](https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid)

I have never tried uber but the first thing I would look at if you haven't is https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid