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Thanks for all the hard work! Jerboa is better in alpha than the official Reddit app ever was (or likely will be).
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.
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
Open up an issue on the github if there isn’t one already if you would.
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!)
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 (!)
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.
a considerable amount of code is used for “telemetry” and tracking.
This app is like… a soft fluffy blanket. Love it.
It’s amazing what devs can accomplish when they don’t have a bunch of greedy MBAs breathing down their necks
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 nicethat first time committer list is fire!
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.
Much easier to collapse comments now. Thanks!
I actually hate it, I keep doing it by accident. T
Yeah, in Boost, I used a long press to hide comment, it was harder to do accidentally.
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I wish it only hid the children comments, like Relay does, but this is better than it was.
There’s a toggle for that in the settings.
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.
Hmm, I don’t see that setting…
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.
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!
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
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
New to Jerboa as well. It took too long to find the place to login. Thus far I’m liking what I see. It still needs polishing and some features added.
It would be great if they could give you an introductory tour the first time you open it. And I agree, if you are not logged in, then the app should take you to the login screen instead of telling you you need to be logged in.
Things do look promising here though.
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.
Holy shit you’re right how did I miss this? haha ohwell ONE DOWN!
Thanks to everyone who has opened issues or submitted PRs! 14 new contributors this round!
How long does FDroid usually take to show the update?
F-droid can be like a week, but izzyondroid should take less than a day.
I don’t have patience, I just grabbed the apk from the github page…
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!
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The user experience is great for me. Terrific app even in alpha.
Thanks for all your and contributors hard work. I’ve signed up for your Patreon and hope to see this platform flourish.
This is great. Just installed and the image viewer is great along with the fonts being consistent.
I’m so glad that white flash you used to get when switcing tabs is gone. Thank you for all your hardwork!
That’s weird, still happens for when switching to basically anything. Like starting this comment for example!
Could it have something to do with your phone being set to light/dark mode? I’m not seeing the white flash.
Are you sure you’re on the latest version (0.0.33)? Maybe it wasn’t updated yet. You can go to the play store and check.
I get it from f-droid rather than the play store and I did see the 0.0.33-alpha changelog on update earlier today so I would have expected to be on that version. Having said that the “What’s new” link still says 0.0.32 which could be just a bad processing of the version number but maybe the f-droid version isn’t right. Not sure. Still getting th flashes basically all the time.
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Should I raise an issue to resolve?
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Nice update. I’m glad I can now login to any community from any instance regardless of if it’s in the list or not.
How long does it take for new versions to show up in Fdroid?
F-droid, about a week. Izzyondroid, about a day.
I just downloaded the APK from GitHub and it let me update it from the .32 version I installed via Izzyondroid - from the limited knowledge I have it’s because the fingerprint of the apps are the same.
Does this mean it won’t be an issue when Izzyondroid has .33, i.e. it will detect I’ve already installed it?
Thanks for all your hard work by the way. A good quality app is such an important thing to have in place to get people to use Lemmy. Reddit works perfectly fine on desktop via RES but the reality is most people browse it on their phone, hence all the drama at the moment.
