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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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Since the latest update, Jerboa crashes randomly (self.jerboa)
submitted 1 year ago by slipperydippery to c/[email protected]
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Since the latest update, the app sometimes crashes when I'm upvoting, opening a post, etc.

I don't know if there are crash logs, but I'm willing to look

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jerboa crashes every time I start the app.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you still on v34 or earlier? only v35 seems to be working for now.

I have a fork of the app v34 where I fixed the issue enough so that people can log into a Lemmy v0.17 server or browse anonymously.

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

I'm on v33 still.

[Edit] I was able to manually update Jerboa to v35.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There are a couple bugs for this already, and it seems to happen when your network is unstable or your instance is under load. If it seems random, it's probably just a crash when the hung network request to your server finally errors out.

If you notice any immediate crashes (i.e. you do X then it crashes immediately), please note those.

[–] ShadowCat 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're on lemmy.world which is still using v0.17 and the new jerboa version requires v0.18 to fully work.

lemmy.world will be updating when v0.18.1 gets released so for the time being revert back to jerboa 0.0.34/33. It'll crash every time you launch so turn on airplane mode, go to the login menu and only then turn airplane mode off and click log in

[–] pfaca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

0.0.33/34 still crashes for me on launch with airplane mode on.

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

Hmm, not sure about that then. If you have no Internet access it shouldn't crash as it has no way to get the incompatible data

[–] pfaca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🤷‍♂️ I'll just wait for the instance update. Using liftoff app in the meantime.

[–] MrNemobody 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The workaround I found is:

  1. Have Jerboa 0.0.34 installed
  2. Open https://lemmy.world/login in the browser
  3. Tap the icon to open it in the app

This way you'll be able to login and use the app normally.

[–] pfaca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That did work.

I did that, but had to enable airplane mode to be able to navigate do the login screen.

Thanks!

[–] MrNemobody 2 points 1 year ago

I'm glad it worked :)

My answer was incomplete: you should've opened the login screen before tapping the icon. I've just updated it.