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...
  • Lodion 🇦🇺A
    401·
    2 years ago

    Thanks for all the hard work! Jerboa is better in alpha than the official Reddit app ever was (or likely will be).

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
      36·
      2 years 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·
        2 years 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
        3·
        2 years 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
    36·
    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

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
      28·
      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
    291·
    2 years 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
      5·
      2 years 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
      3·
      2 years 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
    22·
    2 years 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
      16·
      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!

  • kevin@beehaw.org
    14·
    2 years ago

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

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
    12·
    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.

      • drk@slrpnk.net
        2·
        2 years 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·
        2 years 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.

  • rawrspace@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 years ago

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

  • AfterlifeBarista@lemmy.ml
    11·
    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?

    • a1studmuffin
      1·
      2 years ago

      This should be in the next update, I added that functionality over the weekend and the PR was approved.

      • kadu@lemmy.world
        51·
        2 years 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
            0·
            2 years 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
              1·
              2 years 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.