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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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Does anyone else find Jerboa to be incredibly energy efficient? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've tried multiple Reddit apps in the past, from the official one to Boost to RiF, yet all of them used way more battery charge for the same amount of browsing I do on Jerboa.

This is great! Well done devs!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the age of 500 mb apps, a 18 mb one is a breath of fresh air.

I'm also using barely any data.

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

And the accessibility. More things need screen reader labelsas i am stuck using the web ui and would rather use the app

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do find the light and simple nature of this app to be highly appealing. Just give me some comments sorting options and fix the bugs with images and then I'd say this app is perfect

[–] kiwifoxtrot 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And let me change the size of the fonts! For some reason the comments aren't changed by the settings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also, changing fonts.

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

Yah, I've got the same experience. 🙁

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

Is it possible to collapse comments on Jerboa? If not a tap to collapse is my #1 feature request. Comment sorting would also be awesome. EDIT: Figured it out! Holding down horizontally next to a commenter's name will collapse! (With a slick animation), however I saw someone saying a newer release of Jerboa will have tap anywhere to collapse in comments.

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

Yep tap to collapse is working for me

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

I didn't know about this, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Related, having no trackers show up in TrackerControl for it is also very satisfying.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's extremely efficient, particularly on iOS

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

I haven't tried it, I'm OK with using the browser. :)

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

I mainly use apps to be able to switch between apps using one switch apps button. Browsers like sleeping unused tabs and you can't just use the switch apps button to browse both the internet and the funny in intervals of dopamine-fueled multi-tasking.