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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

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Anyone else prefer the app over the desktop website? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by VoidCrow@lemmy.world to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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Idk it just seems to work/look better and doesn't sign me out whenever I go on some certain instances

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[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I definitely prefer the app because it has a critical feature for me: tap to collapse

I read a lot of the comments and being able to quickly collapse them is absolutely essential. There's no way I'm able to hit that tiny little box in the webgui on mobile.

I've signed up to support the dev because honestly, for an alpha this is pretty good. It seems to get timeout errors all the time even when the vote goes through, and you're right it's annoying that it can't load Lemmy links internally, but it's a great start and I hope it continues.

[–] Shlomito@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Although it's still missing the button to go to the next top level comment

[–] mdwhite999@vlemmy.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was one of my favourite boost features. And you could use your volume button to jump.

[–] Shlomito@vlemmy.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was also a thing in the stock app. Actually, the fact that it was so fucking buggy was one of the things that made me go to infinity

[–] mdwhite999@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did not know that. Used boost for so long that I forgot what the official app was like

[–] Shlomito@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, except the volume button part, and only to go down

[–] PirateSaysAye@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Absolutely not! Clicking on links to a LOT of other communities/posts ends up opening a web browser within Jerboa to view the content. I got so tired of it that I moved to the mobile web site and now the user interface is consistent.

[–] EddyBot@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

checkout the Android App settings in Open by default > Add link
in latest app update they added new community links

[–] PirateSaysAye@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, so there are 8 links, but thousands of Lemmy servers. This will never scale and there's no way I'm going to go do that every time I update, which will never have an up to date list of all relevant domains. This isn't even a valid workaround, much less a real solution unfortunately.

Also, those are all second level domains, but I'm seeing most Lemmy servers are at subdomain level. This means the system would be trying to send say mail.lemmy.ml to Jerboa, which it isn't equipped to handle nor would I want it to.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

That's fixed in an upcoming release. I forget if it's 0.0.34 or whatever comes next, but that was implemented in the last week.

It's a fast moving project, so check back in every week or two. It may be a bumpy ride in the next couple weeks as lemmy (the server bit) gets a new release and instances slowly upgrade, so have some patience with it in the meantime.

[–] VoidCrow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That is very true, the app is definitely not perfect and I still do use desktop for moments like those, I just find that more manageable than it signing me out everytime I'm on certain instances

[–] zockerr@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Jerboa was the reason for me to take the plunge and actually create an account. It feels very similar to Sync out of the box which I have been using to browse Reddit before. But there are definitely some rough edges still that need to be ironed out.

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm back and forth. I made a Firefox app and it works. I use Jerboa and it works. I'm waiting to see which one comes out on top in the coming weeks before making a decision.

[–] alexpry@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

How can I use jerboa with kbin?

[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I would prefer the app, because it looks great and reminds me of Infinity, but it crashes way too often for me.

I still use it and appreciate the work being done on it but it's still too buggy for me to truly prefer it. I still regularly login to Lemmy through my browser, which I would very rarely ever do on reddit once I started using the infamous third-party apps.

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

There are functionalities that are missing but overall I'm pretty satisfied, for an alpha release

[–] palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org 2 points 2 years ago

yeah, not yet.

there is good and bad, and i expect that there will be more and more features released now that there are a heap of users :)

[–] Ungoliantsspawn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I seem to be drifting towards the PWA ... But a decent native app would be more than welcome

[–] Bobo_Palermo@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't tried the app, but quite pleased with the web GUI on tablet.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Same

[–] textj@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There’s an app?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I think someone needs to make a /c/lost_lemmings or something. ;)

[–] inventa@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't take my desktop pc to the toilet so...

[–] 84615_on_resu@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, you can, but you choose not to..

[–] inventa@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

you got me

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