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...
  • patchymoose@beehaw.org
    691·
    2 years ago

    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
      13·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • qprimed
        8·
        2 years ago

        a considerable amount of code is used for “telemetry” and tracking.

    • animist@lemmy.one
      10·
      2 years ago

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

    • DessalinesOPMA
      48·
      2 years ago

      Its no probs. This one was all volunteer contributions by skilled android developers who just want to make the fediverse better. I’m extremely grateful to all of them.

      • sukotai@beehaw.orgB
        10·
        2 years ago

        a few days i use jerboa daily : it’s not perfect but i can deal with all the restrictions

        But i really miss an option to make all post as ‘read’ with a single button Just a suggestion for the next release. Thank you for your great work

        • DessalinesOPMA
          8·
          2 years ago

          Open up an issue on the github if there isn’t one already if you would.

      • v_krishna
        7·
        2 years ago

        Really appreciate the fast feedback and uptake from you & twizmwazin (I’m coming back to my topbar MR have it working somewhat now with the full app on my phone wifi paired or in the virtual device - has been a fun experience seeing the end to end Android dev setup for the first time after building software for 20 years!)

  • any1th3r3 [he/him]@beehaw.org
    44·
    2 years ago

    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

    • DessalinesOPMA
      38·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • a_lemming
    311·
    2 years ago

    Much easier to collapse comments now. Thanks!

      • XLRV
        13·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, in Boost, I used a long press to hide comment, it was harder to do accidentally.

    • jayknight
      5·
      2 years ago

      I wish it only hid the children comments, like Relay does, but this is better than it was.

      • joshLaserbeam@beehaw.org
        4·
        2 years ago

        You have to check “Show content for collapsed comments”. The default is actually Apollo/ Alien Blue style. Also I would recommend unchecking “show action bar for comments” so the vote buttons are hidden until the comment is long pressed.

  • Ninmi@sopuli.xyz
    30·
    2 years ago

    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
      18·
      2 years ago

      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!

  • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
    211·
    2 years ago

    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
      5·
      2 years ago

      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

      • Dudewitbow
        1·
        2 years ago

        I was confused to at first, then it dawned on me yhat i should swipe right and lo and behold.

    • meliache@feddit.de
      4·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Woedenaz@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    18·
    2 years ago

    The one feature I desperately want that Relay For Reddit has was a “Clear Seen Posts” button. You tapped it and it removed every post that I’d already viewed. There was another option to auto mark posts as “seen” if you just scrolled past them. I’d love for Jerboa to add that.

    • Captain Bastard@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 years ago

      Second this. It would be nice to have a way to hide posts you’ve already seen.

      I also think there could be a little stronger visual differentiation between read and unread posts, if they’re still shown.

  • kevin@beehaw.org
    17·
    2 years ago

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

  • AfterlifeBarista
    16·
    2 years ago

    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?

    • bahcodad
      7·
      2 years ago

      Could you please explain this to me? I have no idea what you’re talking about

      • kadu@lemmy.world
        81·
        2 years ago

        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·
            2 years ago

            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
              3·
              2 years ago

              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.

    • DessalinesOPMA
      15·
      2 years ago

      F-droid can be like a week, but izzyondroid should take less than a day.

    • DaEagle
      13·
      2 years ago

      I don’t have patience, I just grabbed the apk from the github page…

      • drk@slrpnk.net
        4·
        2 years ago

        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!