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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 UI modifications (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by meisme@lemmy.ml to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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I've been playing around with Jerboa's UI trying to make it more consistent and readable

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[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Looks nice. Is this working code in a fork somewhere, or a non-functional visual mockup?

  • Most of the changes seem purely cosmetic, but I guess you decided to get rid of the button to list the communities in the bottom bar in favor of having people use the hamburger menu?
  • My favorite change is getting rid of the local/subscribed/all button in the top-bar and making the display of what's currently suggested be a dropdown. That's much easier to understand, and reduces clutter. Simply lovely.
  • The one thing that actually reads less clearly to me is the envelope icon to go to replies/etc in the bottom bar. If I didn't have jerboa next to me to compare with, I wouldn't be able to visually parse what that is supposed to me.
[–] meisme@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Thank you for the constructive feedback. This is not a mockup, it's functional code. I will publish it and I will try to get it merged once I improve the styling and fix a few crashes. For the last point, I based the icon off of what similar apps like Infinity use. I guess it would make more sense to replace it with a bell or an envelope. Thank you so much for the very constructive comment :)

[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Good job with this! Apparently the inspiration for the Jerboa UI was Boost for Reddit. That's not to say it needs to be a Boost clone in every single way, but if you want to see why certain decisions were made, it's a good app to look at. I see that when you made the change to a dropdown for local/subscribed/all, we lost the sub text that shows what the current sort order is (active/hot/etc). I don't know if that's difficult to add back, but it's something I personally would miss.

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