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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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Internal browser is needed, especially for YouTube links. (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by Jode@midwest.social to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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I appreciated how the reddit app I used (relay) kept everything internal. I don't want all the links I open on this app opening in my browser and plugging up my history. I doubly appreciated how it would open YouTube links in an internal video player that wasn't linked to my YouTube account in any way. This is a must have for me to prevent my YouTube "algorithm" from getting any ideas. For example, I watch a video about "X" and now my whole feed is suggesting I watch more videos about whatever "X" was.

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[–] Jode@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by custom tab? When I open a link it opens in the same kind of Firefox but not Firefox that a Gmail link would open in. Also, I would prefer not to do a wipe of my yt everytime I watch a video on how paperclips are made and yt decides paperclip videos are the way to go. I am really going to miss the ability to silo yt away from ~~reddit~~ lemmy if something like this feature doesn't get implemented.

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

Custom Tab is when links open in Firefox/Chrome, but still inside the app. Linking externally means that you leave the Jerboa app entirely and open the link in your standard browser.

[–] Jode@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh right so that is the current behavior. This still ends up with your browser history picking up everything that you go to in the app. I don't like this.

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

Understandable, to each their own.

I personally would not like having links not open in Firefox, since I would lose the large amount of improvements I get from Firefox extensions. I also launch everything by default in private browsing, so the history issue is moot for me.

[–] Jode@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that's not a bad work around