this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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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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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The fact that Jerboa makes me click an Imgur link rather than embedding the Imgur content under this post when I click it feels like a possible area for improvement.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jerboa could definitely benefit from an in-app browser so images and links don't push to other apps.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

In the meantime, you could use ImgurViewer. Setting it as a default app makes it work pretty seamlessly.

edit: didn't realise I'd linked the Spanish page, oops lol

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Ha! I was confused for a moment until I realized the same thing.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Since you are asking, here's my primary 2 complaints about the UI so far that so far seem unaddressed:

  • not having placeholders for community icons and user avatars is jarring. This pushes the text around which makes each card slightly missaligned with the last depending on if there are icons/avatars. This gets tiring to read. It doesn't need to be fancy. It could be a black box, or even just padding.
  • in the same vein, it's hard to see what post/comment link is in what instance. This is especially important because different moderation rules apply to different instances. Also, celebrate the diversity of federation!
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would be nice to have the app highlight new comments when you come back to the post, like in Boost

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you make an issue on github? This is something we should definitely implement.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Someone's been looking at Sync for Reddit to get some good ideas 😁

This is how I will end up staying at Lemmy

[–] MattyXarope 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The creator of sync said that he's considering adapting the app to use Lemmy. Fingers crossed.

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

It looks great, thank you very much for your work!

If you're looking for inspiration on UI design, you might check out Sync for Reddit while it's still active. It's one of the best apps I've ever used.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Relay also has excellent UI. I tried pretty much every Reddit app available on Android and kept coming back to Relay.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ability to swipe away posts, or collapse out all the 'read' posts was awesome for browsing

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

+1 for Relay. Great UX

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Looks awesome, but please add a separate setting to set the font size of the front page and the posts/comments.

The way it works currently, front page font becomes too small when changed in settings.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Thanks for the update, can we get a feature to change default setting for home page like "Hot" instead of "Active" and "All" instead of "Local"?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can already do that! Go into settings, your profile settings, and there are options there for default sorting :)

Edit: huh nvm, it seems like I'm only able to see them from Jerboa but can only change em from the webpage.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would be really nice if the app could keep its scroll position more reliably. It always refreshes if I switch to e.g. messages or open my foldable.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I just want to thank you for putting in the work.

[–] pathief 14 points 2 years ago

The fact you can use Android password manager is already a huge improvement.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Now that's sexy. Made me forget about the porn subreddits that I left behind

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's terrific! Tried it last week but decided to just use the Lemmy website on my phone instead. Now I'm back to Jeroba as my daily driver. Update is excellent. Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it looks great. Can't wait to see it evolve.

One issue I'm having is images in comments aren't showing up.

https://i.imgur.com/Ucs74nU.png

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'm seeing the same, not sure if it's all images in comments or just that one

[–] sanguinepar 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a note to say thanks for your hard work on making Jerboa, really enjoying using it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Awesome work! I do Ui/UX for work a ton, do you have open pull requests on gh?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes they do.

I have already contributed to the documentation of backend and it has been approved and merged.

Here are all the repos connected to Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love it so far on my phone.

The only thing I'm missing from RIF and relay is two pane landscape mode with the post feed on one side and the content of a selected post on the other for the tablet, but really great job so far!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@[email protected] will kbin support ever be considered? I'd love to use something like jerboa with it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I'm focusing more on UI but I'll see if that's possible to implement

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it looks pretty nice, I think adding the ability to jump to the context of a reply to a comment would be pretty cool as well.

Like seeing the little notification for it in your messages and being able to tap on it to bring you to the context would be nice. I got pretty used to it in BaconReader.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IDK if this is possible, but can the downvote button be removed or hidden if I'm part of a community that disables downvotes? I'm afraid that every time I misclick it the admins are gonna boot me for being a negative nancy.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

This app is ridiculously good, thank you so much for putting this together. Great third party apps like this can make all the difference for site usability.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Thank you :) I'm a third party but I'll try to get my changes added to the official app

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I like it! Are there any plans for a compact mode?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Already a big improvement! 🥳

[–] lortikins 7 points 2 years ago

Just logged in on the new update and it's fantastic! Major improvement over the web interface on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'd love an option to load top-level comments only by default.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Great work! One suggestion: I think the bookmark icon on Jerboa should probably be changed to match the star icon on the lemmy instance website.

Preferably I would like the opposite (the star to change to a bookmark), but either way I think it should probably match.

Any news on when this might be rolled out?

[–] winston 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

This may be a stupid question but does Jerboa support other instances or just Lemmy.ml? I'm on Lemmy.world.

Edit: It does. I just needed to open the sidebar, click on "Anonymous" and it brought up the login dialog where I could select my instance.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks nice but I usually use the list view!

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[–] Violet 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your picture isn't showing up for me :( I also haven't been able to use the app yet, I downloaded it but no matter what button I press on the screen it just keeps telling me I need to "login first" and I can't log in anywhere...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I have been enjoying this app and it's great to see even more improvements

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Looks nice! I like the existing version so far. Will you add swipe gestures for navigation and upvoting/downvoting comments?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Will you make a PR? I see all this concepts here, but imaging something is not as easy as actually implementing it. Hope, Jerboa's dev team will grow with current reddit user influx.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Looks good, you're doing great? Where should we submit additional feature/UX suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

nice, but looks too flat imo. I rather all black or have some more thickness.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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