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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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Forced app localisation? (feddit.de)
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Jerboa is already shaping up to be a great app this early on (it's reminding me a bit of earlier versions of Sync), but one little gripe I have so far with the newest version is forced app localisation.

I'm usually more annoyed than anything else by most apps that are suddenly being translated into my language (German), and I'd much rather keep the standard English version.

Is there any way you could make it so that we are able to choose which language the app is displayed in? I can't even force English in the android app settings.

Anyway, as I said, great app so far. Thanks for the hard work!

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[–] Zaros 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. While I love apps supporting my native language, I hate seeing half-translated things. So I usually use English until localization is complete. Additionally figuring out how things work can often be easier in English first (matching terms in troubleshooting and guides).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, troubleshooting in different languages can be a veritable pain in the butt.

[–] neblem 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't look like there is a github issue for that yet, can you please create one? https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues

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

Done!

[–] neblem 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I do agree allowing an override in Jeroba would be a nice to have, as a workaround you should be able to put English as your first language in your android system settings and that will tell apps to localize to that first. edit: reworded

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Problem is, I'd like to keep my system language set to German if possible.

Android already offers the capability to set default languages on a per app basis, which even works for the otherwise absolutely dreadful official Reddit app (which used to switch between languages all the time), but jerboa doesn't seem to support that yet.

[–] neblem 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't know about the per app language setting, that's really neat!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Right? I think they introduced it with android 13. However, in order for this to work, the app developer has to specifically enable this for their app, so it doesn't work with all apps, unfortunately. But it's a neat little feature nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, please! I was wondering what was up with that. I started to question myself if it has been like that all the time.

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

Yeah, me too. It's always quite the surprise (and very rarely of the good kind) when an app suddenly changes languages without any sort of notice.

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

I use Language Selector to force language on any app, requires Shizuku
https://github.com/VegaBobo/Language-Selector

https://shizuku.rikka.app/