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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.

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Opened Jerboa this morning and now it just immediately crashes (self.jerboa)
submitted 1 year ago by jake_eric to c/[email protected]
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I'm pretty sure I've been running the latest version for a few days, so I don't think it was an update to the app that broke it, though it does give me some kind of update screen that I can't read because it immediately crashes.

Just thought I'd post to see what was up, since I don't see any other posts mentioning it.

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

Recent versions of Jerboa aren't compatible with Lemmy v0.17.x, which lemmy.world still runs until some performance issues get ironed out.

You can install Jerboa v0.34 from F-droid, Obtainium, or by downloading the APK from Jerboa's github. Uninstall first if you installed from the play store.

[–] Sir_Kevin 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The incoming masses aren't going to understand any of that. They're going to install it off the Play Store, have it crash and say "fuck this lemmy bullshit" before going right back to reddit.

[–] PriorProject 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not talking to the incoming masses, I'm replying to OP with information about how they can stop Lemmy from crashing.

[–] New_account 0 points 1 year ago

Side downloading .apk files from something other than the Google Play store is shady as hell. It's way too easy to sneak malicious code into the app that way. Even if the project is open source, I don't have the time or the skillset to review the code to confirm it's not malicious. No offense to the developers, but there's no chance in hell I'm doing that for an upstart app I knew nothing about a month ago.

As a result, I'm using Lemmy via Firefox's mobile browser right now, with Jerboa completely useless crashing the second I open it.

Hopefully they fix it soon (i.e., within the next 24 hours). First impressions matter a ton. For the masses migrating tomorrow once RIF and others shut down, Lemmy and the different apps for it will appear to be dead on arrival. If we expect any actual content on Lemmy beyond complaints about Reddit and questions about Lemmy, we need those people to migrate over.

The idea that different fediverse instances can all be on different incompatible versions is mind bogglingly dumb. The federation/decentralization design choice overcomplicates things to a huge degree. There are far more downsides than upsides to this approach. I want to like Lemmy/Jerboa, but at this point, the official Reddit app is looking more and more appealing.

[–] jake_eric 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I heard about the versions thing. Before this morning it was crashing a lot, but not completely unusable.

If I install from somewhere other than the play store, can I still update from the play store later, or will I have to uninstall and reinstall again? Installing from outside the play store isn't a dealbreaker for me, but since I also have other Lemmy apps installed to use in the meantime, I've been figuring I'd just wait it out, if it'll be a hassle.

Thanks for the help tho!

[–] PriorProject 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I install from somewhere other than the play store, can I still update from the play store later, or will I have to uninstall and reinstall again?

I haven't personally testing switching app stores as I have F-droid installed for other reasons and just intuitively used it from the start for jerboa. My belief though is that anytime you switch sources for an app, you're best off uninstalling/reinstalling... and with Jerboa the worst side effect of that is having to re-login.

... but since I also have other Lemmy apps installed to use in the meantime, I've been figuring I'd just wait it out...

This is a perfectly reasonable choice, just wanted you to know what it took to get Jerboa doing it's thing again. If you have other ways of using Lemmy you're satisfied with, have at it.

[–] jake_eric 2 points 1 year ago

Alright, I'll weigh my options a bit. Thanks for the help!