solrizeAny chance of putting this on F-droid?
aka_oscar
LadyAutumn
khaosoiIf by “this” you mean the jerboa app, it is on F-Droid. Both in the official repo and on Izzy’s.
I was pretty sure that Jerboa is already on F-droid; see https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jerboa/
ShertsonHow long does it take for f-droid to be updated to must recent release? F-droid is at 0.34, GitHub is at 0.35. I know it is a bit much to expect it in less than 24hrs, m not complaining, just curious
F-Droid does their own builds (and signing) of apps, so it's down to however log they take. If you want faster updates, you can add the Izzy on Droid Repository to your F-Droid client, as they update from the releases on GitHub.
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg), with additional screening applied. Updates for the apps are usually fetched daily, and you can expect daily index updates.
BrikoX
chi-chan~
Thanks, I noticed Lemmur while looking on F-droid for Lemmy but saw it hadn’t been updated in 10 months so figured it was out of date. I just installed it and tried it and I only see a spinner icon, including when I select Lemmy.ml in the pulldown. I can try Lemmynade if there is a .apk on Github but I think building Android apps takes more tools and stuff than I want to deal with at the moment.
dadarobot
Heyo, come check out my fork of Jerboa, I backported it to work for your Android 5 through 7.
Wow thanks! I’ll try.
Ok, I installed the 0.34+hotfix .apk since lemmy.world is still running 0.17.something. I was able to connect and look around at some posts. Then I tried to add my lemmy.ml account. I entered my username and password and clicked “login” and the app immediately crashed (Android error box saying Jerboa has stopped, or something like that). I tried again and it crashed again the same way. Then I tried lemmy.world (since it is running the earlier server version) and interestingly, that me log in.
Comments from less than a minute of playing with it:
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Scrolling posts around is slow and janky compared to RedReader. That might not be a fair comparison since Jerboa is pic heavy while RedReader is all text. But, a nice settings option might be to not show the pictures if that speeds it up. If the user wants to see a picture, they can click something.
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Figuring out how to log in took some messing around. Clicking the profile and home icons said “log in first” but didn’t say how. It would be good if they provided some kind of hover or hold-down link to log in.
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The profile “about” screen shows your username but not what instance you are logged into. It would be nice to add that. Screen space permitting, it could also be nice to display the username under the profile icon, instead of the uninformative word “Profile”.
Thanks for the backport!!! Can I ask what the purpose of the fork is for, other than the backport? I hope that you can send your changes upstream and that upstream will accept them.
Azzulemmy.ml is on 0.18 so jerboa 0.34 doesn’t work with it. Shouldn’t crash but well…
I forked this version to play around with it, I also found I couldn’t log in to Beehaw so I made this patch specifically bc of that.
I’m not sure whether the main developer would want to add my patches into an older version of the app, they are probably focused on improving the latest version. They are also running into a little trouble supporting multiple Android versions as it is, I wouldn’t want to inundate them with support requests from Android 5 to 7 users.
The fact there isn’t a tutorial might make it a little difficult. The profile screen usually uses display name. Profile might be used because a longer name might not fit well on one line.
I’m thinking of updating every now and then with new changes, when I have time and when breaking changes happen as it did with the Lemmy update.
I’m writing this from a LineageOS sans gapps tablet on Jerboa.