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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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With a lot of talk around new apps in development & coming on stream, something I've been happy to see, & commented on, as choice is always a good thing... I thought I'd just voice my appreciation for the Jerboa team, love this App, such nice Ui & UX, I find it very easy to use, all the view options, post layouts, especially the compact view are really easy on the eyes, & great to scroll through quickly. I know there are some errors from time to time, & the odd glitch here & there, but thats something to be expected, given that Jerboa is still in its Alpha form.. Thanks for all you do, each iteration makes the experience, better & better..๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿผ

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[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thank you! I do have to remind people that jerboa is still very much alpha-level software... something I worked on in my off-time when not working on lemmy.

I'm super excited tho for it now, because it has a lot more skilled contributors, who actually know how to do android development.

[โ€“] Thrasybulus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Appreciate the work on the app so far, was great to have an open source app and one on F-Droid to replace infinity. Looking forward to seeing it's continued development.

[โ€“] StoicLime@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to say that I love the animation while collapsing comments. Very slick.

[โ€“] _s10e@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Excellent work.

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[โ€“] erre@feddit.win 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yea! Jerboa certainly helped me leave Reddit. Well done and thanks devs!

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Biodroid@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's got to be thousands of peopel that are using this platform because of Jeroba. I know I probably wouldn't be here and commenting without that app. Thanks for all the hard work!

[โ€“] tobor@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm one of 'em, it's been great so far!

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[โ€“] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Hear hear! The Jerboa app has been great, and @dessalines@lemmy.ml (hope I did that right) has worked hard on it for sure! Some of the posts about bugs and/or feature suggestions have been downright rude imho, so it's nice see them get their flowers, they deserve it! It's nice to see so many new app projects popping up too of course, but so far Jerboa has done great by me, and like others have mentioned, has really eased my transition from RIF. My thumb already instinctively taps on Jerboa now instead of RIF, LOL.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Thanks! One of the best compliments on it I've gotten!

[โ€“] zammy95@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hahah, I put Jerboa right where rif used to be, so now I end up here instinctually plenty of times a day. No complaints on my end, the apps doing everything I need so far!

[โ€“] darkkite@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah it's always the people who contribute the least to free software who expects the most.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It can be very grating when people demand that you do free labor for them, while refusing to do it themselves. Open source can feel like a group project, where one person just makes demands on everyone else without helping out.

[โ€“] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

As a happy user of Jerboa, I say work on it only as much as you want. Take care of your personal well-being as that's the #1 priority.

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[โ€“] Resonosity@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be using Lemmy/the Fediverse if it weren't for the devs of this app. I hope we can keep it alive as long as possible, like the fediverse itself. Decentralization is why the internet has prospered this far. It would make sense to have a social internet that's decentralized too

[โ€“] Lexam@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's already in the place of RIF.

[โ€“] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Same I replaced my RIF with this app and use it daily just as I used to do with RIF. When I get the funds plan on donating.

[โ€“] intelati@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's a pretty good alternative. A bit "janky" but it's a alpha app.

[โ€“] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jerboa alone has made the transition from Boost on Reddit to Lemmy and the fediverse incredibly easy.

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[โ€“] StoicLime@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just here to say that I love the animation when collapsing comments. So slick.

[โ€“] joekar1990@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It took me way too long to figure out what the + numbers meant, but yes super slick and love the color difference in comments. Easier for me to follow and see where I'm at.

[โ€“] OtakuAltair@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It is indeed very satisfying.

[โ€“] ToastyWaffle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It's brand new too, I literally asked the dev for one tap comment collapsing and he added it the next day or so.

As a fellow Software Engineer/architect myself, really nothing but praise for these guys.

[โ€“] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Jerboa's been great for me. Sure it's kinda glitchy, but they've already made huge improvements in just a couple weeks. Awesome work devs, now... get back to it! ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] PencilPossessor@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I'm currently using jerboa, it's pretty close to Reddit feel, so I like it, cuz that's what I've been used to x.x

Yup, Jerboa has been great for using Lemmy on mobile. There are some features I miss coming from Relay, but it's all minor things that don't really impact the overall useability.

[โ€“] azron@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Big thank you to all the hard work and the neck break development pace lately!!

[โ€“] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

What's even better is that the pace of development on Jerboa is extremely high at the moment, there are a lot of features and fixes that are ready to go but have to wait for the next release of the Lemmy server software.

You can follow (and help) development here: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa

[โ€“] Nachtara@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

It basically replaced the Relay for reddit app for me. Works pretty good.

[โ€“] sanmarzano@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Word up. When the Reddit collapse happened, Jerboa was ready to fucking rumble.

The fella (fellas?) behind it did a great job of building the right app to be ready for when the world needed it.

[โ€“] Anamana@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Good job devs, your work is appreciated!!

[โ€“] fruity@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Had a pretty much seamless transition from Infinity to Jerboa. Well done indeed.

[โ€“] JoKi@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

It's great to see what happened in the last 3 weeks. Thanks a lot to the developers.

[โ€“] Malthur@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I agree, it looks and feels very nice and clean. Of course there's still some small bugs, but it'll only get better with time.

[โ€“] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I straight up would not be on Lemmy today if not for the jerboa app. literally my only gripe with it is I think the icon for it is ugly af, but that's just opinion and everything else about the app is great!

[โ€“] star_boar@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

but its cute!!!

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[โ€“] Beatlesandworms@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Agreed, thanks for a great app! ๐Ÿ’

[โ€“] XLRV@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Jerboa is nice, I can't wait to see what it will become in the future, thanks for all the devs who are working on Lemmy and Jerboa ๐Ÿ™

[โ€“] star_boar@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I wish there was backwards compatibility though, because I can't use most instances (that are Lemmy 0.17.4) with the new Jerboa v0.0.35-alpha ๐Ÿ˜”

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[โ€“] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yup. Using it right now and looking forward to see how it grows along with the platform.

[โ€“] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Jerboa has been great for me. Helped fill the rif size hole in my media consumption.

[โ€“] shadesver@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

not sure if I'll stick with Lemmy or Kbin. Jerboa is big plus for Lemmy though

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[โ€“] z3n0x@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Love to see Jerboa on my Homescreen.

[โ€“] Niggling_Niggard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd love to try Jerboa, but when trying to connect, it says "Server version (0.17.4) too low".

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