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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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Why has Jerboa moved Repository? (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by Terminus@mander.xyz to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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It wants me to uninstall and reinstall since the signature of different, which makes sense as it from a different source, but it doesn't mention anything in the changelog.

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[โ€“] Vittelius@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know who published it. It's the fdroid devs. Fdroid follows very much the old Linux repository philophosy where the owner of the repo acts as a middleman, providing the central layer of trust. You don't have to trust the developers because the distributor has done their due diligence and checked it. That's why fdroid takes a couple of days to push updates. They are doing some basic quality control first.

This model made a lot of sense in the world of traditional Linux packaging, where every obscure distribution has their own package format and developers couldn't possibly be expected to support all of these. It makes less sense on Android (or in a word where flatpak exists for that matter).

[โ€“] heeplr@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It makes less sense on Android

Quite the opposite. From the user perspective, it's much easier to trust the repository than trusting every single developer not losing their password. In case of OSS it also ensures reproducible builds.