Hey everyone. If I’m spamming my repo too much let me know.
Since v37 came out, development is going at whirlwind pace, and there are still frequent complaints about crashing/no logins for 0.17.x, I decided to post again, but this time bearing good news.
I finally made a Jerboa version where you can log into both 0.17.x and 0.18 accounts.
Unlike the main repo my release is also compatible with phones running Android 5.0.
Check it out and let me know if this is helpful for you. I’m trying to get this merged in as PR#908 but Woodpecker is giving me a hard time.
Supporting older devices was the original goal of my fork.
Then Lemmy 0.18 and Jerboa v35 dropped breaking things which made using the app annoying or straight up unsuable for some servers.
So I put some work in to at least fix what were the most glaring issues. It’s not a perfect/futureproof solution, the main developers would prefer an interface to pass Lemmy API version with the login and handle things on a version by version basis rather than an issue by issue basis. I can understand their reasoning.
Still, it’s a nice thing to do. I know a few people that have really old smartphones and don’t use any software for social media because of this (they just use way too much resources and the apps usually just hang), now I can suggest Lemmy as a plaform they can most definitely use, even on older hardware, with your forked Jerboa app of course. One of them is really knowledgeable about certain electronics subjects, just kinda out of luck in life (money wise), so he’s stuck using his old phone at the moment, so I will most defintely suggest trying Lemmy with Jerboa now.