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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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Stop breaking something every update (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It feels like every other day Jerboa gets broken in some new way by an update. First all of the interactions in the inbox were hidden by an invisible button you have to hold, then the app decides "hey you know that instance you were on literally yesterday? We don't support that version now because reasons", and now the back button on both the app and my phone crash the app every single time. Maybe just try a bit of quality control before pushing an app that's broken in a new way each time I open it? Before all of these broken updates, the only thing we really needed was in app image viewing (which we got) and a search bar that can search beyond your home instance (which we still don't have).

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

I think that this is a free app made by volunteers. I think the type of quality assurance that you are describing is from something called "unit testing". If you want to create some unit tests, and submit to the code base, I am sure it will be appreciated.

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

Since you're so concerned with Jerboa quality I'm pretty sure the developer would appreciate if you volunteered for performing comprehensive quality control before each release.

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

Not constructive in the least, but I get your frustration of it crashing constantly. You could try designing a better app for a change.

If not, submit an issue on GitHub; though I'm sure it's being worked on. What version have you downloaded?

[–] V4uban 1 points 1 year ago

There are plenty of alternatives: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

Please keep in mind this is all the work of volunteers.

Have a good day.