My Jerboa Fork with a couple patches

A native android app for Lemmy, see the "lollipop-support" branch to see my tweaks to install on Android 5.0 - 7.x - ShinyLuxray/jerboa

Hey y'all. Since Lemmy 0.18 has been out and sort of breaks Jerboa a bit, I will show off the versions I've cobbled together to patch it.

I started this repo to allow older versions of Android to run it (5.0 and up). There's two release version that may be of interest.

(New June 29) v36-plus made it so that it is now possible to log into both 0.17.x and 0.18

v35 takes the latest release from dessalines and made it compatible for older devices. Can only login to Lemmy 0.18 servers.
v34-plus hotfix1 where I patched the crash on startup issue and allow anonymous logins on other servers by leaving the username empty. Can only login to Lemmy 0.17.x servers and below.

I'm hoping these will be helpful for anyone facing issues.

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Thanks for the hotfix on 0.0.34! I'm glad that I can use Jerboa again since my instance hasn't yet updated to Lemmy 0.18

Thank you! I loved the updates on the new version but my home server is not .18
- I'm glad this helps you! It's called 34-plus because it incorporates a few but not all the features developed between v34 to 35, like comment sorting, better image and web viewer handling. Some of the missing features are top-level comment navigation and new themes.

could you work w/ Jerboa devs to merge your changes upstream instead of forking?
- I've no plans to do that, people will complain to the devs if a new feature breaks 5.0-7.0 support, I don't want that. And I'm not sure if they want to continue development on their older versions of the app, but I might get in touch about that.

Thanks!!!! I'm now running 0.34+hotfix1 on Android 7 and logged into lemmy.world from it (0.17.x server). As mentioned in the other thread, I can't log into lemmy.ml (0.18.x) but I'm fine with just using lemmy.world for now. I do wonder what will happen when lemmy.world updates to 0.18. The backport is much appreciated! Lots of us out here are using older phones, and I'm unable to log into either instance through the web interface at all.

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