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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 40 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 6 points 2 years 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

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Open up an issue on the github if there isn't one already if you would.

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[–] any1th3r3@beehaw.org 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that first time committer list is fire!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years 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.

[–] patchymoose@beehaw.org 27 points 2 years ago (2 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 (!)
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[–] a_lemming@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Much easier to collapse comments now. Thanks!

[–] dj3hac@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] XLRV@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] jayknight@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

There's a toggle for that in the settings.

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[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 years 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 2 years 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!

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How long does FDroid usually take to show the update?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

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

[–] DaEagle@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] kevin@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

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

[–] wasabi@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago

Thanks to everyone involved!

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years 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 11 points 2 years 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?

[–] rawrspace@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] antik@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

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[–] s6original@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] _ice_witch_@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

I'm so glad that white flash you used to get when switcing tabs is gone.

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[–] CasscadingSymmetry@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years 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@lemmy.pt 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] alternativeninja@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

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

Yay. Good job guys.

[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years 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 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] V4uban@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Great update, thank you guys

[–] TempleSquare@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Bretzel@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nvm. I was dumb. Loving the update!

[–] Methylman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Just downloaded earlier today after seeing the app mentioned in a comment - thanks for your work!

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