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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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Anyone else prefer the app over the desktop website? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] PirateSaysAye 14 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

IF Lemmy/kbin truly take off after a bit, I almost guarantee the link format will be handled appropriately at pretty much all levels from OS to browser, just the same as an email/URL/whatever.

Big if, but one can hope.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 1 year 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.