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Jerboa

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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

Warning: You can submit issues, but between Lemmy and lemmy-ui, I probably won't have too much time to work on them. Learn jetpack compose like I did if you want to help make this app better.

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Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Your donations directly support full-time development of the project.

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[–] lodion@aussie.zone 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for all the hard work! Jerboa is better in alpha than the official Reddit app ever was (or likely will be).

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its no probs. This one was all volunteer contributions by skilled android developers who just want to make the fediverse better. I'm extremely grateful to all of them.

[–] myself33@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a few days i use jerboa daily : it's not perfect but i can deal with all the restrictions

But i really miss an option to make all post as 'read' with a single button Just a suggestion for the next release. Thank you for your great work

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that first time committer list is fire!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the number of skilled android devs contributing now is unreal. We're gonna loop past A LOT of reddit apps in two weeks at this rate.

[–] any1th3r3@beehaw.org 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The in-app image viewer is such a welcome feature!
thank you all for your hard work and contributions to making our experience on Lemmy so nice

[–] patchymoose@beehaw.org 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not even joking when I say that this app, despite being in alpha, is a more pleasant experience than the official Reddit app.

  • Jerboa has not begged me to turn on notifications
  • Jerboa has not yelled at me for taking a screenshot or begged me to send it as a link to the site instead
  • Jerboa has not warned me that I am "low on coins"
  • Jerboa has not tried to make me create an NFT avatar
  • Jerboa contains more formatting options in comments than the Reddit app (!)
  • Jerboa is smart enough to autopopulate the link title when I highlight text to be converted to a link. Reddit app still lacks this feature (!)
[–] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is extremely impressive how much money these large tech companies throw at an app and it turns out to be shitty as fuck. I wonder what bullshit features they pack in to make it like that.

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[–] a_lemming@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Much easier to collapse comments now. Thanks!

[–] dj3hac@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I actually hate it, I keep doing it by accident.

[–] XLRV@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, in Boost, I used a long press to hide comment, it was harder to do accidentally.

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[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That decision to lay a solid foundation for an Android app really bearing fruit right now. Thanks for all the hard work and thanks to all the new contributors.

[–] Grenfur@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

I've been incredibly impressed at how fast the Jerboa team is working to catch up with the influx of new users and issues. Massive thanks for all the work getting done!

[–] antik@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Thank you devs, great release.

Might I add some remarks?

  • The login feature is not really intuitive. When not logged in and pressing on any of the icons below, instead of displaying a "login first" notification, bring the user to the login screen?
  • ~~Possibility to collapse and expand comment threads~~ (as @meliache@feddit.de pointed out this already works by touching the comment)
  • When I click on a link and it for example opens an image, allow me to press the Android back button to go back to the discussion. Right now the only option is to press the back arrow hovering over the image.

If there's a better place to post these requests let me know and I'll post it there

[–] ganbaro@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

This!

I started using Jerboa today and the login confused me. Jerboa demands login but I couldn:'t find out how to login first

I remember Slide for Reddit having similar issues with their UX but their error message is more informative IIRC

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[–] kevin@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Thanks to everyone who has opened issues or submitted PRs! 14 new contributors this round!

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How long does FDroid usually take to show the update?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

F-droid can be like a week, but izzyondroid should take less than a day.

[–] DaEagle@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't have patience, I just grabbed the apk from the github page...

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[–] s6original@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The user experience is great for me. Terrific app even in alpha.

[–] rawrspace@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

This is great. Just installed and the image viewer is great along with the fonts being consistent.

[–] wasabi@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks to everyone involved!

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long does it take for new versions to show up in Fdroid?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

F-droid, about a week. Izzyondroid, about a day.

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all your and contributors hard work. I've signed up for your Patreon and hope to see this platform flourish.

[–] AfterlifeBarista@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Great update! Thanks!

Only thing missing for now is the ability to sort comments in posts (as in new/popular/best,etc) like in the browser version, which has been sorely missing for the main community of one of my instances. Any info on when is that going to be implemented?

[–] alternativeninja@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

Oh wow it's looking so much more polished and that annoying white flash is gone.

Yay. Good job guys.

[–] _ice_witch_@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I'm so glad that white flash you used to get when switcing tabs is gone. Thank you for all your hardwork!

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[–] CasscadingSymmetry@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Nice update. I'm glad I can now add a community from any instance regardless of if it's in the list or not.

[–] tmpod 8 points 1 year ago

Congrats to everyone involved on this awesome massive new release! 🤍

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd love if it had a dynamic icon, it's currently the only app in my home screen without Monet icon theming. Does anybody know what design assets are needed to make it work? I can try helping, it's certainly not a priority but it should be simple

[–] intothemild@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kadu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fantastic - thanks for your contribution!

[–] bahcodad@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you please explain this to me? I have no idea what you're talking about

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Apps on Android 13 can support dynamic icons that adapt their background color based on the Monet coloring scheme.

This means if I set a blue wallpaper, all my apps become uniform with a white logo and blue background. Apps that do not support this immediately become an eye sore, as you get a perfectly uniform screen... And suddenly that bright red Netflix logo, for instance.

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[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A great update!

Wish the image viewer would work in small card and list view. Is this a bug, or intentional?

Thanks to all the contributors!

[–] kevin@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's definitely a bug, I opened an issue here: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/513

[–] TempleSquare@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Love the app! Thank you for being RiF's spiritual successor.

[–] Whar@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How can we help with localization?

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[–] V4uban@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Great update, thank you guys

[–] Bretzel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So far it is amazing, thank you for the hard work making such cool app. One thing, it tooks me quite some time to find the add account button and change instance, maybe i'm dumb 🤡

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[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Impressive update, I love the upvote/downvote on the side!

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I can't seem to login with Jerboa but I can with Firefox. Any help would be appreciated.

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[–] andi242@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this! I just got into Lemmy/jerboa recently and was about to file some issues on github. But you fixed my them already :D

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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