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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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[–] patchymoose@beehaw.org 27 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 (!)
[–] animist@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

It's amazing what devs can accomplish when they don't have a bunch of greedy MBAs breathing down their necks

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[–] a_lemming@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Much easier to collapse comments now. Thanks!

[–] dj3hac@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] XLRV@lemmy.ml 13 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.

[–] jayknight@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wish it only hid the children comments, like Relay does, but this is better than it was.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

There's a toggle for that in the settings.

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that first time committer list is fire!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 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.

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 17 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 14 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 12 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 4 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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[–] s6original@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 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?

[–] wasabi@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks to everyone involved!

[–] _ice_witch_@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 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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[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] V4uban@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Great update, thank you guys

[–] any1th3r3@beehaw.org 7 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

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

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

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 6 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 10 points 1 year ago (3 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.

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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How long does FDroid usually take to show the update?

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

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

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 5 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!

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

Yay. Good job guys.

[–] Bretzel@lemmy.world 5 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 🤡

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

Same, honestly. From a UX perspective that should really be the most prominent function for a new user but it's tucked behind a swipe menu and a button press.

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

Just got the update, so many great changes! Thank you devs ♥️

[–] 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

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 4 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.

[–] CasscadingSymmetry@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Whar@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How can we help with localization?

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[–] xuu@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Hi, for some reason after I log in Jerboa seems to forget who I am and asks me to login again.

[–] ClammyMantis488@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'm looking forward to using the app! It's a bit too alpha for me to consistently use atm but I'll keep checking in. Thanks for making such an awesome project!

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