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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 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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Jerboa on f-droid is only 3.3mb, how crazy is that (feddit.de)
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It's unbelievable and just shows another advantage of open source software.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That is fucking crazy. That is basically two orders of magnitudes less than many other social media apps while still having most of the same functions.

Absolutely crazy to me lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Jerboa barely has any assets. Basically just an SVG and a few WebPs for the icon and that's it.

Those can increase the size of the app really fast. Think something like just a nice welcome screen with like 5 pages with images that shows you how to use the basics of the app: right there already you need to include those in a few different resolutions for different form factors. Probably at least a few MBs just for that.

It does help to not include proprietary bloated libraries, but code size is not what generally makes the average app big, it's the assets. Liftoff is 10MB, Thunder is 26MB, they both have a bit more visual stuff than Jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open-source doesn’t correlate to this lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it has more to do with it being a native Android app, not using flutter / react native / electron (🤮) or other bloat.