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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any possibility to have the appearance settings saved per account and not for the whole application? I have 2 accounts, one for general sfw use where I want the nsfw content to look blurry and the other for some communities sharing nsfw content, which I'd like to not look blurry. I'd also like to have different colors for the secondary account, but that's not my main "concern".

Thanks for your great work with Lemmy and the Jerboa app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you can open an issue on GitHub?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't have an account and don't know how to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sign up for a GitHub account.

Head to the GitHub page for the app: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa

Click issues

Then make a new post about this feature you would like. You will probably be able to tag it as a feature request when you make the post too.

If someone with the capabilities of implementing what you want has the time they might take up the task.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It's good to see the rapid development. Lemmy is very quickly developing a thriving ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Instant crash for me. Pixel 6

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you make an issue for the crash with the logs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you don't know how to make an issue:

Sign up for a GitHub account. https://github.com/join

Head to the GitHub page for the app: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa

Click issues

Then make a new post describing your issue, include logs if you can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same for me with Pixel 7pro

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same on Xperia 5 II on Android 12.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same on Moto g stylus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same with me. Xiaomi M11X

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Why am I always so early to these releases on accident?? Lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Let's goooo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Crashes for me if I'm on anything earlier than 0.18

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is nothing new: Jerboa doesn't support instances < 0.18.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can anybody confirm why? The bigger instances are all on 0.17.4 still, aren't they?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The Lemmy API gives back log in info slightly different so the app couldn't handle it.

I made a fork that fixes that...

and I'm trying to get it merged

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy 0.18 introduced API breaking changes namely because it switched from WebSocket to HTTP as transfer protocol. They also dropped captcha support in 0.18 which is the reason why lemmy.world and other bigger instances are waiting for 0.18.1 to re-introduce captcha support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ah now it makes sense. Thats whay I had to uninstall jerboa because the logged in instance did not support 0.18

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is new. 0.0.36 worked find on 0.17.4. There was just the update message. Now the app just crashes on start.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is more than weird. Jerboa dropped support for instances < 0.18 a few releases ago. I think 0.0.34-alpha was the last version that supported 0.17.4.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It worked if you were still logged in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes you're right but this wasn't exactly intended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same, just tried it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sweet! Installing now, ty!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Ugh, on Android (Samsung s22) can't even log in... Login form spins a bit but does nothing, user name shows on top left, subscribed communities are fetched but nothing else works (subscribed feed empty, inbox says need to login, etc. ..), restarting resets back to anonymous.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you trying to log in to an instance that hasn't updated to Lemmy v0.18 yet (like most of them)? Versions of Jerboa greater than 0.0.34 only support the newer Lemmy version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nope, Lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ran into that error too, but I have no clue what causes it... I'm working on a tweaked Jerboa myself to try to mitigate the issues that annoy me the most

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Would you consider submitting pull requests back to the main project to fix them for everyone?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strange responses from server really seem to confuse jerboa. If there's high load, for example. Looking like only anonymous account is active seems to be a common result.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's a solid option, especially since it works fine with another user I created on a different instance. I'll let it go for now and try tomorrow and see. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm on an S22+ with no issues. I did uninstall to install the update though 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try using connect for lemmy. My experience of lemmy has increased multiple times since switching.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Strange - I created a new user on a different instance (sh.itjust.works) and that's working just fine, meaning it's something related to this specific user 🤔

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It is just awesome!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does anybody know, why the f-droid releases are delayed so much? Still on .35 here. Even play store seems to have .37

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I think it's because they build each app from source to ensure what you see on github is what you get. And I think it just takes a while to process with so many apps on fdroid getting updates.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Fdroid takes a few days generally because they build everything themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks ray and hschen for the explanation, makes sense!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keeps crashing app failed to open

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uninstall and install back again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand it. Server problems. Im on lemmy.world and it 17.4

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah now the app is starting but I can't login. Hopefully the issues get fixed soon so that @Ruud can upgarde the server.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This update unfortunately broke jerboa for my phone. Was at least still able to use it but now it consistently crashes after a couple of seconds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give liftoff a try, I tired it after the crashing and I like it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Whoa, thanks. This is the best app for me right now. I'm really happy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This time it crashes immediatly at startup. I'm on a Fairphone 3 with LineageOS.

Edit: You have to uninstall and reinstall the app to prevent this crash at startup.