Someone's been looking at Sync for Reddit to get some good ideas ๐
This is how I will end up staying at Lemmy
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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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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The creator of sync said that he's considering adapting the app to use Lemmy. Fingers crossed.
That would be huge for lemmy if the 3rd party reddit apps tried to adapt to lemmy.
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I'm going to miss sync. I bought pro in January of 2014.
Now that's sexy. Made me forget about the porn subreddits that I left behind
IDK if this is possible, but can the downvote button be removed or hidden if I'm part of a community that disables downvotes? I'm afraid that every time I misclick it the admins are gonna boot me for being a negative nancy.
This was fixed in this PR: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/390, it should be available in the next app update
I think that setting works on a per instance basis. No need to worry.
Great work devs
Thank you :) I'm a third party but I'll try to get my changes added to the official app
It's terrific! Tried it last week but decided to just use the Lemmy website on my phone instead. Now I'm back to Jeroba as my daily driver. Update is excellent. Thank you!
I still haven't added my changes to Jerboa yet (I'm a third party), glad Jerboa is improving though.
It looks great, thank you very much for your work!
If you're looking for inspiration on UI design, you might check out Sync for Reddit while it's still active. It's one of the best apps I've ever used.
Relay also has excellent UI. I tried pretty much every Reddit app available on Android and kept coming back to Relay.
The ability to swipe away posts, or collapse out all the 'read' posts was awesome for browsing
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+1 for Relay. Great UX
Yup only Reddit app I've consistently used for years. None of the others were quite the same
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nice, but looks too flat imo. I rather all black or have some more thickness.
I added a monochrome mode
can i please filter out image posts i think memes are extremely annoying
The fact you can use Android password manager is already a huge improvement.
Works really well. My only complaint is when trying to collapse a comment tree if I accidentally tap a user's name instead then swipe to go back all the comment trees I've collapsed are no longer collapsed.
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Replyinf to a comment also uncollapses all collapsed comments.
We'll likely add an option soon to turn off small links (like inline user names and community names) so you won't be taken to the user's profile in the first place if you accidentally tap it.
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Just a note to say thanks for your hard work on making Jerboa, really enjoying using it.
I don't think I'd be able to figure out Lemmy without it
The fact that Jerboa makes me click an Imgur link rather than embedding the Imgur content under this post when I click it feels like a possible area for improvement.
Jerboa could definitely benefit from an in-app browser so images and links don't push to other apps.
In the meantime, you could use ImgurViewer. Setting it as a default app makes it work pretty seamlessly.
edit: didn't realise I'd linked the Spanish page, oops lol
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I'd love an option to load top-level comments only by default.
wow! that looks really nice! thanks
This may be a stupid question but does Jerboa support other instances or just Lemmy.ml? I'm on Lemmy.world.
Edit: It does. I just needed to open the sidebar, click on "Anonymous" and it brought up the login dialog where I could select my instance.
It does. I'm at beehaw, currently using the app, and I leave the setting at federated so I can see the content across all instances.
It works for most, if not all Lemmy instances. When you set up your account you tell it what instance your account is on. For me that's beehaw
It looks so much better! I am looking forward to the future of the app!
Thanks for the update, can we get a feature to change default setting for home page like "Hot" instead of "Active" and "All" instead of "Local"?
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Your picture isn't showing up for me :( I also haven't been able to use the app yet, I downloaded it but no matter what button I press on the screen it just keeps telling me I need to "login first" and I can't log in anywhere...
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Awesome work! I do Ui/UX for work a ton, do you have open pull requests on gh?
Yes they do.
I have already contributed to the documentation of backend and it has been approved and merged.
I installed this yesterday for the first time, and i like it! Thanks!
[Edit] ok I was blind, there is already an option for that in the settings called "hide action bar by default for comments" not sure, if this came with .33 or not but I'm happy now :D
Looks good!
One suggestion:
Can you make an option to hide the controls for comments (up/downvote, permalink and so on...) and make them only pop up when I press on the comment?
When reading the comments of a post, the controls take away a lot of screen space. I don't want to interact with very comment, so hiding the controls would declutter the comment section imho
Example of what I mean in Sync for reddit:
If you long tap the comment, it hides the buttons.
But I agree that it should be hidden by default. And swap the long tap and short tap behavior.
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Just logged in on the new update and it's fantastic! Major improvement over the web interface on mobile.
This is amazing!
I just want to thank you for putting in the work.
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