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Note that Jerboa 0.50 which is still the latest in the Play Store is broken with Lemmy 0.19. The newly released 0.53 should work but it's not on the stores yet.
Suggestion:
Check that the compatible Jerboa version is on the Play Store before upgrading Lemmy. That way non-technical users like my wife won't see breakage. Or alternatively upgrade several days after the official Lemmy release.
Yeah, lesson learned :/
I'll compile a list of apps and see how we can track which one are ready for any API breaking changes before we do the server update.
I'd just delay the update for a few days up to a week. That would give a chance for most maintained apps to release updates via their respective channels. Then I wouldn't have to care and check for specific apps.
The app developers were warned like a month ago that this would be a breaking change, they had lots of time to release patches and there's been a few large instances on the beta of 0.19 for well over a week.
IMHO It's not really sensible for us to go test the apps and then hold back on upgrading just because one of the dozen apps isn't compatible yet.
What's even worse is that the Jerboa developer is one of the Lemmy dev, he could litterally see this coming a mile away :/
But on the other hand he's at the mercy of Google making the update available whenever they feel like it.
It's why I wouldn't test at all. I'd just wait a bit. Or I'd update after Lemmy.world updates. 😅 Little extra work that way.
Most of the aps can't even distinguish between ~subscript~ and ~~strike-through~~
How can I get the 0.53 version of Jerboa?
fdrold or download the apk from their github
Does fdroid have the update? The latest version it'll give me is 52.
GitHub is on 54,
IzzyOnDroid is on 53,
F-Droid is on 52,
Google Play is on 50
And 52 does not seem to be able to login. It seems like the fix is in 53.
I pulled 0.0.54 off github and cleared the data off my phone. I still can't log in to lemmy.ca using either Jerboa or Eternity
54 worked for me on lemmy.ca
Importantly, the signatures of the F-Droid build is different than the one from Github, is different than the one for the Play Store. As a result, you can't update an app installed from one of these sources with a build from another. 😮💨
FYI Jerboa is now at v0.54 on the Play Store.
I just updated before seeing this comment. 🙌