Trilium Next
[Question] Official Android mobile app? #10571
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Good Morning! 👋 I hope everyone is doing fantastic! I recently switched to Trilium from AppFlowy and I'm really enjoying it so far, well worth the switch. I'm currently self-hosting Trilium on my server for syncing across devices and it's been great on desktop. The one thing I'm missing is a proper offline-first mobile app. I can use the web for it and that works great, but due to spotty internet it's not ideal hahaha. An offline first app that syncs would be more ideal. I was wondering if there's any plans for an official mobile app on Android and if so, is there any estimation on when it might be released? Thanks for all the amazing work on Trilium, I'm genuinely loving it and I can't wait to see it grow even more! |
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Unsure of official plans for an app, but check out nrivers list. There's some unofficial options there. I've been using Pocket Trilium and its pretty functional and smooth for how new it is, plus it works offline [EDIT] See @eliandoran's answer for the official app |
Mate you're an absolutely legend. This should hopefully get me by until an official app gets released (hopefully), thank you so much! |
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Hi, You can also be a beta tester if you wish, and test the mobile app we are working on. It's built daily and the APK can be found here: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/releases/tag/nightly It is standalone, meaning that you can access all your notes offline (except notes bigger than around 20 MB) and it optionally syncs to a server. |
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It's basically the website wrapped into an app. It is very clumsy and the space is optimized for web browsers, not an android app. Wouldn't it be better to have a native android app? |
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@6801318d8d , "very clumsy and the space is optimized for web browsers" -- what do you mean by that? Why is it clumsy? And no, we have no plan to maintain a native Android app. Sure, it would be better, but for every change we'd have to maintain the desktop app, the tablet view, the mobile web view and two mobile apps (iOS & Android). Also, "website wrapped into an app" is a bit of an understatement. It's a fully functional offline client that runs without a server, so it's not just the client packed into an app. |
I opened a discussion with suggestions for the interface |
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@6801318d8d , yes, I saw that one. That's the tablet design, which indeed has not seen to much love. The mobile design is the ones for phones. |
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holy moly, thank you for this, I was deliberating over TriliumDroid or Pocket Trilium. didn't know we have an official coming, trying it out! |
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Let me know how it goes. 😄 |
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Hi, I will look into it. I see you're using a tablet, the mobile view on the tablet is a bit underdeveloped. Have you tried the desktop mode instead, is there something that mobile/tablet view has that the desktop version doesn't? |
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Hi, the desktop mode will do it but for example if you draw a lot in a canvas, the bar at the bottom with the note path, attributes, attachments and backlinks is a bit annoying because you constantly touching it. On a different note: Is fullscreen mode still in the works for the app? |
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And one more general question: Is it possible in Excalidraw to move the pen settings menu from the right side to the left? Otherwise, it's a bit of a limitation for right-handed users, and I haven't found an option for that. Edit: I found a solution via a custom css file (probably I will do a short guide how to achieve this) but if there is some official method, please let me know |
Hi,
You can also be a beta tester if you wish, and test the mobile app we are working on. It's built daily and the APK can be found here: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium/releases/tag/nightly
It is standalone, meaning that you can access all your notes offline (except notes bigger than around 20 MB) and it optionally syncs to a server.