Good IRC Chat Apps?

[noxious.sunshine]

.... For Android. Free. I've looked through the list in playstore, but yeah.

[Pike]

AndChat.

Also, moving to the Help Forum.

[Mirage]

I'm using andchat myself.

[Pike]

Yeah, AndChat is pretty great.

[o_O]

I use AndChat and I used to use AndroidIRC. Both are pretty good.

[noxious.sunshine]

Thanks! Now my next question....

I found the address and port number and whatnot but it won't connect?

[Mirage]

Type out exactly what you typed into andchat, except do it in a post here.

[noxious.sunshine]

Haaaang on.

Side note: I found all that on the chat wiki. It's still right, right?

[Jiro]

It should be, it was updated relatively recently.

[Loony BoB]

Server Details
Name: EoFF (or Calindora, or whatever you want to name it)
Address: irc.calindora.com
Port: 6667

User Details (examples)
Nick 1: noxiousmobile
Nick 2: mobilesunshine
Nick 3: noxiousphone
Username: noxioussunshine
Real Name: Jim

Other Details
Autojoin List: #eoff
Autorun List: /ns IDENTIFY password (assuming you have registered your nick, if you haven't you can leave that empty)
/join #trivia (or whatever other channels you want it to automatically join upon entering outside of #eoff)

That should hopefully help. If you have already tried setting the server up and want to check you have done it correctly, click on the button to the left of the server name and a drop down will appear - click Edit to check the above is correct. Obviously choose your own usernames, I was just putting in whatever.

[Pike]

/ns IDENTIFY password

You can just type /ns instead of /NickServ?

Well you learn something new every day!

[Loony BoB]

Yep. Or at least, you can on mIRC and AndChat. Dunno about others.

[Rantz]

Yeah, /ns is a shortcut for /msg NickServ in many clients, KVIrc included. It won't work in all clients, though.

I use AndChat, too, although I haven't tried any others since I was pretty happy with it from the start. I'm a little curious to try out other ones but not enough to bother.

[o_O]

Just a word of warning - AndChat is fine, but be careful using /ns to authenticate with other clients, when your active window is a channel. I've come across two clients for mobile devices, which would send any unrecognised commands to the channel as messages.

So "/ns identify cheesebiscuit" winds up being "<mike> /ns identify cheesebiscuit"

[Relena Peacecraft]

Yeah, /ns is a shortcut for /msg NickServ in many clients, KVIrc included. It won't work in all clients, though.

At least as far as Calindora goes, /ns is a server-side alias, so any client that's smart enough to forward unrecognized commands directly to the server will work fine. Then again, there are dumb clients out there that refuse to relay commands they don't recognize. I would suggest making a list of such clients and flushing them down the proverbial toilet.

You can just type /ns instead of /NickServ?

You can also identify via the password field your IRC client most likely provides (though your username must match your nickserv username, and for many people, this isn't what they do). Or you can identify through a client certificate, but this is probably beyond the scope of what most people will want to bother with. (But I totally do it. Never see a nickserv password again!)

Finally, I found AndChat to be the most useful general-purpose IRC client for Android, though I don't use it anymore. (I now use Quasseldroid, which connects to my client running on my server. Again, more work than necessary for most people.)