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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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Please add kbin.social support for Jerboa!

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[–] simple 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly this, they don't use the same API. It would be a pretty big effort to get Kbin working on Jerboa, it's likely that mobile apps specific to that will pop up soonish.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

API support in KBin is currently on the roadmap but disabled (for now). Hopefully once there's a working API for KBin, an app will materialize. I have my suspicions that there still won't be interop (you can use a Lemmy app for KBin or a KBin app for Lemmy) for a long time, but I definitely think it will make KBin instances a more attractive link aggregation community solution

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't understand; I can access Kbin magazines from Jerboa. What am I missing?

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

The discussion is about API access to KBin from an app, which is totally different from federation between instances and services.

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

Because KBin had more features than just what's available with federation because it's a separate codebase than Lemmy. I'm starting to get it now, thanks for the help!

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

You can't access the microblogging/Mastodon side of Kbin from Lemmy/Jerboa

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

Thank you, starting to get it now!

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

KBin federates with Lemmy nicely. Meaning you can, while logged in to a Lemmy instance, subscribe to a KBin magazine. However, you cannot log in to a KBin instance directly

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

Hmm. Which could give me access to other Kbin features, like the microblogging the other commenter mentioned to me?

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

Right. As of now there's no app that allows the full KBin experience on android. I'd expect it to come in the future, but first KBin needs some API work

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

Got it! Thanks for explaining; that was really helpful.