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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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Feature Request: Automatically open Lemmy-hosted-video links with an external app (or implement an internal video player) (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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In the linked comment, I am lamenting that on Jerboa, you cannot easily see where the post’s link goes. When you click it, Android parses the domain name rather than filetype so the default action is to open with Jerboa. Because Jerboa cannot open the video, it just shows the instance’s home feed. The user needs to share/copy and paste the link to see the URL and deduce that it should be opened with a video player.

So please give Lemmy-hosted video links an appropriate icon (▶️/🎞/🎥 rather than ⛓️) and open them with an external app by default (the user can choose VLC or whatever) unless a built-in video player is getting implemented. Alternatively, a RIF-style pop-up would be appreciated to view the destination URL and offer actions like “Share/Copy/Go”, or even navigate to next/previous hyperlinks in comments (useful for fat-fingered users).

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[–] Generator@lemmy.pt 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use ImgurViewer, it supports many sites
https://github.com/SpartanJ/ImgurViewer

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

This app is great, thanks! It somehow detects that the URL ends in “.mp4” and offers to open it – I previously thought the process was only TLD-dependent as the UI (“Open feddit.de links with...”) suggested.