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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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Jerboa v0.0.42-alpha Release (github.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] PropaGandalf 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly Jerboa is so polished that it feels like an android system app.

[–] kabe 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

The scrolling lag is still an issue though. Go from Summit, Voyager, or Sync to Jerboa and it's definitely noticeably worse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tried Infinity just now too and it also feels instant to scroll there.

Not sure what they are doing but some apps feel very quick and other don't.

[–] PropaGandalf 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I only tried Liftoff and the lag was significantly worse there. Maybe they fixed it by now. As for Jerboa it isn't that bad that it would bother me much. Honestly I'm not even noticing it anymore.

[–] OverfedRaccoon 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's funny. I hadn't really noticed it til the comment pointing it out made me think about it. It's still not enough to bother me, but I will say that other apps do feel smoother when casually scrolling the feed.

[–] PropaGandalf 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But do they have such a clean and minimalist UI like Jerboa? I really love how this app sticks to the flat and simlke material UI without any visual clutter. I mean have you seen the size of the app? It's some few megabites!

[–] OverfedRaccoon 1 points 11 months ago

I wonder if it has to do with preloading images and stuff to make the scrolling smoother. This could be a negative for people on mobile data that don't have unlimited data plans. If that's the case, being able to toggle preloading on wifi only might be something other apps would want to implement.