Release Jerboa 0.0.33-alpha · dessalines/jerboa
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This is a big one, thank you to all our new contributors! 🥳 Jerboa is still very much an alpha-level app, but its wonderful to see its pace accelerating rapidly thanks to others working hard to mak...
    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
      28·
      1 年前

      Yeah, the number of skilled android devs contributing now is unreal. We’re gonna loop past A LOT of reddit apps in two weeks at this rate.

  • any1th3r3 [he/him]@beehaw.org
    32·
    1 年前

    The in-app image viewer is such a welcome feature!
    thank you all for your hard work and contributions to making our experience on Lemmy so nice

  • patchymoose@beehaw.org
    301·
    1 年前

    I’m not even joking when I say that this app, despite being in alpha, is a more pleasant experience than the official Reddit app.

    • Jerboa has not begged me to turn on notifications
    • Jerboa has not yelled at me for taking a screenshot or begged me to send it as a link to the site instead
    • Jerboa has not warned me that I am “low on coins”
    • Jerboa has not tried to make me create an NFT avatar
    • Jerboa contains more formatting options in comments than the Reddit app (!)
    • Jerboa is smart enough to autopopulate the link title when I highlight text to be converted to a link. Reddit app still lacks this feature (!)
    • Jaximus@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 年前

      It is extremely impressive how much money these large tech companies throw at an app and it turns out to be shitty as fuck. I wonder what bullshit features they pack in to make it like that.

    • animist@lemmy.one
      2·
      1 年前

      It’s amazing what devs can accomplish when they don’t have a bunch of greedy MBAs breathing down their necks

  • Ninmi@sopuli.xyz
    24·
    1 年前

    That decision to lay a solid foundation for an Android app really bearing fruit right now. Thanks for all the hard work and thanks to all the new contributors.

    • Grenfur@lemmy.one
      14·
      1 年前

      I’ve been incredibly impressed at how fast the Jerboa team is working to catch up with the influx of new users and issues. Massive thanks for all the work getting done!

  • kevin@beehaw.org
    12·
    1 年前

    Thanks to everyone who has opened issues or submitted PRs! 14 new contributors this round!

      • drk@slrpnk.net
        2·
        1 年前

        Same, I did have to remove the older version installed via f-droid before installation of the apk from GitHub would succeed though. That was when I updated from 0.0.31 to 0.0.32. Updating to 0.0.33 then worked without uninstalling anything. Liking it so far!

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 年前

    Thanks for all your and contributors hard work. I’ve signed up for your Patreon and hope to see this platform flourish.

  • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
    121·
    1 年前

    Thank you devs, great release.

    Might I add some remarks?

    • The login feature is not really intuitive. When not logged in and pressing on any of the icons below, instead of displaying a “login first” notification, bring the user to the login screen?
    • Possibility to collapse and expand comment threads (as @meliache@feddit.de pointed out this already works by touching the comment)
    • When I click on a link and it for example opens an image, allow me to press the Android back button to go back to the discussion. Right now the only option is to press the back arrow hovering over the image.

    If there’s a better place to post these requests let me know and I’ll post it there

    • ganbaro@feddit.de
      4·
      1 年前

      This!

      I started using Jerboa today and the login confused me. Jerboa demands login but I couldn:'t find out how to login first

      I remember Slide for Reddit having similar issues with their UX but their error message is more informative IIRC

    • meliache@feddit.de
      1·
      1 年前

      Comment threads are collapsible afaik, just touch and hold onea comment and release again. Admittedly there are no visual hints that this is possible, there a tutorial or something like that might help.

  • AfterlifeBarista@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 年前

    Great update! Thanks!

    Only thing missing for now is the ability to sort comments in posts (as in new/popular/best,etc) like in the browser version, which has been sorely missing for the main community of one of my instances. Any info on when is that going to be implemented?

      • kadu@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 年前

        Apps on Android 13 can support dynamic icons that adapt their background color based on the Monet coloring scheme.

        This means if I set a blue wallpaper, all my apps become uniform with a white logo and blue background. Apps that do not support this immediately become an eye sore, as you get a perfectly uniform screen… And suddenly that bright red Netflix logo, for instance.

          • kadu@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 年前

            Are you asking about Jerboa or Android in general? It depends on your vendor’s Android version and skin. For Samsung devices, it’s found within the Color Palette options in the Settings app. On Realme and Oppo devices, it’s a beta feature in the home screen customization tab.

            • Hammy@lemmy.one
              2·
              1 年前

              I was looking for Samsung - thank you! Unfortunately it appears that a large percentage of my apps on my home screen don’t support it, so it looks pretty funky.

  • Ice Witch@lemmy.fmhy.mlB
    9·
    1 年前

    I’m so glad that white flash you used to get when switcing tabs is gone. Thank you for all your hardwork!

    • Piatro@programming.dev
      01·
      1 年前

      That’s weird, still happens for when switching to basically anything. Like starting this comment for example!

      • dj3hac@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 年前

        Could it have something to do with your phone being set to light/dark mode? I’m not seeing the white flash.

      • Aloso@lemmyrs.org
        1·
        1 年前

        Are you sure you’re on the latest version (0.0.33)? Maybe it wasn’t updated yet. You can go to the play store and check.

        • Piatro@programming.dev
          2·
          1 年前

          I get it from f-droid rather than the play store and I did see the 0.0.33-alpha changelog on update earlier today so I would have expected to be on that version. Having said that the “What’s new” link still says 0.0.32 which could be just a bad processing of the version number but maybe the f-droid version isn’t right. Not sure. Still getting th flashes basically all the time.