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Don't worry if a question seems silly or obvious! The idea of this account is to especially help new people.
I have a Android versions of Tusky and Mastodon, but neither display the "translate" button like the website of my instance does. Why is that?
The developers of those apps haven't implemented translation yet.
The official Mastodon roadmap page shows translate for the official Android app as "in progress", which usually means it is coming fairly soon, possibly in the next update:
https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap
I don't know what the timetable is on Tusky, but according to the relevant issue (at https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/134) it hasn't been done yet.
One workaround might be using Fedilab for Android, which has translation?
For others who don't want to spend money determining if the fedilab app has a translate button, it does have one and translate works okay. Now I have to figure out how to make the app work for me rather than against me.
You can also get Fedilab free if you download it from @fdroidorg
The reason it costs money on Google Play is to encourage people to use more ethical alternatives to Google Play, and to help fund the app's development.
I've done a review of Fedilab here if people are interested in getting it:
@feditips @vey981 @fdroidorg Sigh, @fdroidorg seems less and less reliable. The last time I used it recently, it installed a version of a Signal fork that froze on launch and lost my entire message history, and now trying to use it to get Fedilab all I get is repeated crashes from F-Droid itself...
@evilmicrowizard @feditips @vey981 @fdroidorg I'm not sure which "Signal fork" you're referring to, f-droid.org does not offer Signal or any fork so that must have been from a third party repository (F-Droid has no control over third party repositories and can't do anything to ensure their quality or even safety, using a third party repository is at your own risk).
For crashes, please do report them, preferably using the built-in crash reporter. Reported crashes do get fixed all the time :)
@SylvieLorxu @feditips @vey981 @fdroidorg It is called Molly. I've been about a year and a half without it now and finally bit the bullet, uninstalled and reinstalled, losing my entire chat history.
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to use a "built-in crash reporter" when FDroid keeps crashing and exiting within a few seconds, every time it's opened...
@evilmicrowizard @feditips @vey981 @fdroidorg Well, Molly is not in F-Droid. I suspect you added a third party repository which means you got Molly directly from that third party without any involvement from the F-Droid team. So you should take any issues about that up with them, F-Droid can't do anything there.
For the crash reporter, it is supposed to show up after the app crashed to let you email. If that is not working https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues is a good place to report manually.
