A fork of the Mastodon Android app adding important features that are missing in the official app, focusing on Glitch compatibility, a pretty UI and adding new features that I feel make using the Fediverse a more pleasant experience.
Allows you to post publicly without having your post show up in trends, hashtags or public timelines (i.e., in the tabs “Community”, “Federated” and “Posts”).
This allows you to chronologically see all Public posts from people on all other Fediverse neighborhoods your home instance is connected to.
You can customize Megalodon’s home tab and not only add local and federated timelines, but also pin lists and hashtags.
Allows to prepare a post and schedule it to send it automatically at a specific time.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.joinmastodon.android.sk
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.joinmastodon.android.sk
Note that you'll need to add Izzy's F-Droid repository to your F-Droid app first:
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo
F-Droid.org? Not yet, sorry!
If you want, you can help me figure out if something's missing in the Issue #47: F-Droid.org
Press the download button to download the APK. Open the downloaded file on your Android device to install it. Megalodon will automatically notify you about new updates inside the app.
You might have to accept installing APK files from your browser when trying to install it. You can also take a look at all releases on the Releases page.
Megalodon makes use of Mastodon for Android’s automatic update checker. Megalodon will check for new updates available on GitHub and offer to download and install them. You can also manually press “Check for updates” at the bottom of the settings page!
All downloads can be found on the Releases page. When downloading a pre-release, expect to see unfinished features and bugs. If you don’t want that, just download the latest full release.
megalodon.apk
Variant with an integrated updater. If you download Megalodon from here (and not from an app store), just download the regular megalodon.apk
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upstream-1234abc.apk
This is an unmodified version of the official Mastodon for Android app the respective Megalodon release is based on. Should you find any bugs in Megalodon (which you will), try to see if it occurs with this variant, too. The last 7 digits of the file name are important to know which version of the official app you're using.
The translation for the base of the app is sourced from the upstream Mastodon for Android project, which you can contribute to on its Crowdin project: https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon-for-android
There's also a bunch of custom strings exclusive to this project that need to be translated. You can help translate Megalodon on Weblate: https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/megalodon
As this app is using Java 17 features, you need JDK 17 or newer to build it. Other than that, everything is pretty standard. You can either import the project into Android Studio and build it from there, or run the following command in the project directory:
./gradlew assembleRelease
Note that Megalodon might be depending on an in-development version of AppKit – a library by Mastodon for Android’s developer. In case the used AppKit version isn’t published to Maven Central yet, you might have to clone, build and publish it to your local Maven repository. For more information, see this GitHub issue.
This project is released under the GPL-3 License.