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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 does 0.0.76 not have a changelog or even a release announcement? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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Basically title. I noticed the new version in my F-Droid client but there wasn't any information about it anywhere. The version name also had a mention of the Google Play Store (gplay). What's up with all of this? Are there any questionable proprietary components being implemented to comply with the Play Store requirements or something?

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[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

0.76 should only exist for the Play Store. Donation links had to be removed in the Google Play variant: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/commit/ea2776441b4f76ff66f7beb7b64e5291101af5c5.

Not sure why F-DROID would pick up changes from a different branch and build them.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That link 404s.

Edit: did it explain why they had to remove donation links? That seems unfortunate.

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Google wants your app to handle payments through Play Services so they can get a cut. I think it's technically allowed now to have external payment links in certain cases, but sometimes it's just easier to remove the thing Google is mad at even if they're in the wrong.

Again, though, that commit is only for the Google Play variant. Maybe some weird branch merging thing happened and it ended up in the main branch accidentally, but it shouldn't have made it to F-DROID.

[–] olof@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I saw this too, appreciate the question.