Release Jerboa 0.0.33-alpha · dessalines/jerboa
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This is a big one, thank you to all our new contributors! 🥳 Jerboa is still very much an alpha-level app, but its wonderful to see its pace accelerating rapidly thanks to others working hard to mak...
    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
      33·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • sukotai@beehaw.orgB
        7·
        1 year ago

        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

      • v_krishna@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        Really appreciate the fast feedback and uptake from you & twizmwazin (I’m coming back to my topbar MR have it working somewhat now with the full app on my phone wifi paired or in the virtual device - has been a fun experience seeing the end to end Android dev setup for the first time after building software for 20 years!)

  • any1th3r3 [he/him]@beehaw.org
    30·
    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

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
      271·
      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.

  • patchymoose@beehaw.org
    29·
    1 year ago

    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
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • animist@lemmy.one
      2·
      1 year ago

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

  • Ninmi@sopuli.xyz
    23·
    1 year ago

    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·
      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!

  • kevin@beehaw.org
    12·
    1 year ago

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

  • AfterlifeBarista@lemmy.ml
    11·
    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?

  • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
    121·
    1 year ago

    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·
      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

    • meliache@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      Comment threads are collapsible afaik, just touch and hold onea comment and release again. Admittedly there are no visual hints that this is possible, there a tutorial or something like that might help.

      • kadu@lemmy.world
        61·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • kadu@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Are you asking about Jerboa or Android in general? It depends on your vendor’s Android version and skin. For Samsung devices, it’s found within the Color Palette options in the Settings app. On Realme and Oppo devices, it’s a beta feature in the home screen customization tab.

            • Hammy@lemmy.one
              2·
              1 year ago

              I was looking for Samsung - thank you! Unfortunately it appears that a large percentage of my apps on my home screen don’t support it, so it looks pretty funky.

      • drk@slrpnk.net
        2·
        1 year ago

        Same, I did have to remove the older version installed via f-droid before installation of the apk from GitHub would succeed though. That was when I updated from 0.0.31 to 0.0.32. Updating to 0.0.33 then worked without uninstalling anything. Liking it so far!

      • NoTime@lemmy.one
        1·
        1 year ago

        I just downloaded the APK from GitHub and it let me update it from the .32 version I installed via Izzyondroid - from the limited knowledge I have it’s because the fingerprint of the apps are the same.

        Does this mean it won’t be an issue when Izzyondroid has .33, i.e. it will detect I’ve already installed it?

        Thanks for all your hard work by the way. A good quality app is such an important thing to have in place to get people to use Lemmy. Reddit works perfectly fine on desktop via RES but the reality is most people browse it on their phone, hence all the drama at the moment.

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
    9·
    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.