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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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Any chance of putting this on F-droid? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I don't use the Play store (don't want a Google account) and prefer to stay away Github because Microsoft. Thanks.

Added: Thanks for the links! Unfortunately it looks like the app requires Android 8.0+ and my phone is still on Android 7. Is that inherent to Jetpack or some other part of the app technology? It would be good to not have to keep churning to the latest shiny.

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

I forked this version to play around with it, I also found I couldn't log in to Beehaw so I made this patch specifically bc of that.

I'm not sure whether the main developer would want to add my patches into an older version of the app, they are probably focused on improving the latest version. They are also running into a little trouble supporting multiple Android versions as it is, I wouldn't want to inundate them with support requests from Android 5 to 7 users.

The fact there isn't a tutorial might make it a little difficult. The profile screen usually uses display name. Profile might be used because a longer name might not fit well on one line.

I'm thinking of updating every now and then with new changes, when I have time and when breaking changes happen as it did with the Lemmy update.

  • Note that yeah you have to use a v35 app to login to lemmy 0.18 server like lemmy.ml, v34 works for 0.17.x and lower only. I didn't have a chance to add both versions' login method handling on one app.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, it's hard to tell how many users are still on Android 7 but it seems to be fewer than I had expected. Still, if supporting the old versions isn't difficult, I hope that upstream will accept it. Meanwhile I will try to be a little more open to getting another phone.

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

Numbers reported by Google as of May 30 2023... 92.4% have 8.0 or later. 3% have Android 7, 4% have Android 5 and 6, 0.5% still run less than 5.0.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That is pretty frightening. Lots of perfectly good phones must have gone in the trash. Maybe I will look for a used Pixel 4A.