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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.

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Jerboa UI adjustments (streamable.com)
submitted 2 years ago by therealfooza@lemmy.ml to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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I have been playing around with the Jerboa UI to make it a bit more usable for my style.

Since I would call some of these UI adjustments significant to the original design and I have used a couple different libraries I don't think I should create a pull request for them but I might need to see.

  • Changed the theme to an amoled dark style.
  • Fixed the weird font scalings for comments.
    The comment (markdown) text fields were set to scale to x1.3. I am sure this was probably to fix something somewhere but it made the comments way to big for me and restoring it caused no ill effects from what I can tell on my phone.
  • Fixed the flash bang transitions. Optimized for the dark theme.
  • Activity transitions changed for proof of concept but work pretty well so far for my style.
  • Comment cards made significantly more compact.
  • Comment toolbar (voting options) are now hidden as they take too much space for my liking. Clicking the comment shows/hides the toolbar.
  • Collapsing comment chains now collapses smaller with a better indication of being collapsed.

I am sure there are other items I adjusted as well and there is always more to do, although I figured I would put this out there and see what the feedback is like.

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[–] gish@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Really hoping that one day I can slide the stories left or right and up/down vote like how Relay for Reddit currently works.

[–] meisme@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Also playing around with the UI

[–] Sewot@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is there a way to make it optional to switch between your comment click handling? I really like how the current app handles collapsing by clicking on the comment and i believe that there will be many users that prefer your option as well. I think this app will flourish with more options in the look and feel area.

[–] cosmicsploogedrizzle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember the dev said previously that the big comments were an unintended byproduct in order to accommodate images in replies properly. Maybe test that on your end to see if your fix is compatible with that functionality.

The rest looks great though!

[–] therealfooza@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmm i wonder how that works,

Image test

[–] therealfooza@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah i see. It's significantly smaller (maybe 45% the size)

I am less worried about the image size then the really large comment text though, but I will see if there is a workaround I can help out with.

[–] therealfooza@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What a pain this has been

From left to right: Android image before, android image after (full scale), Render in the web.

I mean realistically there should probably be a thumbnail and then an expanded view on click.
Or better yet completely hidden and images disabled. Whats stopping someone adding horrific images as a commenter and forcing everyone in the thread to view it?

[–] SloppilyFloss@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whats stopping someone adding horrific images as a commenter and forcing everyone in the thread to view it?

I agree with you for this exact reason. Lemmy has had its share of trolls in the the past who have abused this feature by posting scat porn in random threads. It makes browsing Lemmy in public scary.

Plus, it makes it easier for people to just spam emotes or GIFs that ultimately lessen the quality of discussions. I've seen many Reddit threads that are just:

gif

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gif

gif

[–] msinfo32@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This looks perfect for me. How can I use this? Is there a pull request?

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

Pull requests incoming

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

By chance could you do a pr to fix issue #175?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Looks great!

Make sure you open up some PRs for these if you haven't already.

[–] Sirence@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Please keep in mind that amolded dark modes can not be used by people with migraines and always need to be optional next to normal "dark" but not black themes.

[–] liaizon@social.wake.st 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@therealfooza this looks great is this released as a fork anywhere?

[–] therealfooza@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Given the feedback and fixes I am going to contribute back to the original project. If the UI changes are too drastic I will consider managing a separate fork.

[–] liaizon@social.wake.st 2 points 2 years ago

@therealfooza ah great! that's wonderful news