I keep trying new Lemmy apps. Some are very good, polished, and will work for most people. No disrespect to any of the third-party apps - I keep rotating between a few to see which I'll end up using most. Not knocking any of them. But I just keep coming back to Jerboa. Usually, the third-party apps will just be missing that little something. And on the rare occasion I feel like Jerboa needs a feature that another app already has implemented, bam, it's in the next update (such as DMing users in this update). Not here to suck on that Jerboa peepee, but just wanted to say thanks. With all the appreciation posts going around for the new hotness apps, there's still some of us that appreciate the classic and all the work put into it by the various contributors.
Jerboa
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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what i dislike about jerboa is that external links are opened in the browser instead of the app build in browser and my browser history gets spammed bc of that.
Huh, interesting. I'm the opposite, I never want any sites opened in in-app browsers where my browser extensions are not active.
Yeah, that is one feature I'd like to see - links opened in-app. I'm sure there's a way to request features.
Settings > look and feel > custom tabs & private custom tabs
Does that help?
omg thats awesome, its such a weird wording Better would be: Open links in App
Well, I'll be. I didn't associate that phrasing with that, but I think it worked. Thanks!
I've solved this and similar issues in other apps by using Better Open With along with Firefox Focus
i have firefox for android installed, and it seems to open in an in-app firefox pane.
Honestly Jerboa is so polished that it feels like an android system app.
The scrolling lag is still an issue though. Go from Summit, Voyager, or Sync to Jerboa and it's definitely noticeably worse.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Thank you, this app is great
Is the prevalence of html escape sequences in post/comment text like & and a Jerboa problem or a Lemmy problem?
A lemmy problem. We've started sanitizing the html as a short term fix due to the monumental amount of extremely creative XSS attacks people have been inventing.
Lemmy 18.3 added it html sanitation which doesn't seem to be properly configured
It's a lemmy problem as far as I'm aware, I believe with 0.18.3.