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!
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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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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I'm one of 'em, it's been great so far!
Same here
Just here to say that I love the animation when collapsing comments. So slick.
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.
It is indeed very satisfying.
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.
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! ๐
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
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
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.
Just wanted to say that I love the animation while collapsing comments. Very slick.
It's great for an alpha! I use it every day.
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.
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Yea! Jerboa certainly helped me leave Reddit. Well done and thanks devs!
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It's great to see what happened in the last 3 weeks. Thanks a lot to the developers.
Jerboa alone has made the transition from Boost on Reddit to Lemmy and the fediverse incredibly easy.
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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.
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.
Thanks! One of the best compliments on it I've gotten!
yeah it's always the people who contribute the least to free software who expects the most.
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.
Be careful to not burn out. I think this is the start of a new way of using social media, and American big tech will launch products designed to be very user friendly (as in looking good but be full of tracking and sponsored content). I really don't want them to pull people into their walled garden because their products look better.
I think it would make sense to get help from professional front-end developers to really make the Lemmy software look good and be easy to use. The backend part is already quite good once you get rid of websockets and maybe change the db code a bit to make it faster).
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I love Jeroba too but it just crashes after loading so I have to use the web or Connect.
Same here, crashes instantly on Android 10 :'(
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I'd love to try Jerboa, but when trying to connect, it says "Server version (0.17.4) too low".
I'm having the same issue since the latest Jerboa update 0.0.35 Looks like i'll have to install a previous version from fDroid.
The latest version on the playstore is 0.0.35.
I was able to download the previous version 0.0.34 from github which doesn't have the v 0.18 issue.
As soon as your lemmy instance updates to 0.18 you should be able to update the jerboa app without any issue.
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I tried to use but when I went to login I got an error that says the server version (0.17.4) is too low. but when I check all the popular instances they are all on the same version. so how is it working for other instances?
My understanding is Jerboa 0.35 requires server version 0.18, which isn't widely adopted yet. I'm using 0.34 from F-Droid and I've been having no issues.
Same here. We'll have to wait until our instances update their servers to v0.18.
We'll have to use a browser or a different client until then.
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So I'm posting here from a browser. I want to use jerboa but I can't get it to do much of anything. It asks me to log in but gives me no option to do so. I can't find a manual for it or any help. I'm pretty sure I just don't know how to use the thing, but I know I'm not alone
In the hamburger menu on the left you should find an "Add account" button. IIRC it says the word "Anonymous" and you have to tap it to show the add account button.
Some things in Jerboa are a bit confusing for now. Once you get to know where things are it's pretty good though.
In the top left there is a button to open a sliding menu which comes from the left of the screen. The first entry in this menu will say "Anonymous". Click it. Now you can log in to a server of your choosing.
Currently you will need to create an account on some instance beforehand. You cannot register from the app. You can only log in.
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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 ๐
It basically replaced the Relay for reddit app for me. Works pretty good.
It's already in the place of RIF.
Good job devs, your work is appreciated!!
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.
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 ๐
Which instances are these? After I took the update, I got a message that I need to notify my administrators and logout. But I clicked off of it and everything still works. I am in lemmy.world instance.
I had that, but it crashed a lot. Logged out, and wasn't able to log back in because of the version message. Downgrading didn't work either. It would login and crash. Using the web interface until the server updates.
Not good timing on the release of Jerboa and server version. Not doing version 0.18 released yet.
Edit: The Admin God upgraded the server and 0.35 works sweet now!
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Yeah, it's lame, but it's also work to maintain compatibility between major versions. Once Jerboa dev slows, perhaps it'll be easier to make that better. For now, it's gonna suck a bit until instances upgrade.
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Yup. Using it right now and looking forward to see how it grows along with the platform.
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!
but its cute!!!
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not sure if I'll stick with Lemmy or Kbin. Jerboa is big plus for Lemmy though
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Had a pretty much seamless transition from Infinity to Jerboa. Well done indeed.
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