• RandomLegend [He/Him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      i hope so too

      it works incredibly well as a PWA and feels 100% like a native app. This also allows me to open it on my portrait-orientation monitor on my PC and it feels very good. Handling is much better than the native lemmy UI and i only visit lemmy ui for admin stuff

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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately, PWA have a limit of only 50 MB storage on your device. Not sure what this means for wefwef’s ability to store and show content, or to grow features over time.

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      1 year ago

      I’m also curious if haptics can be implemented in a PWA. I’ve seen conflicting info.

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        1 year ago

        Currently, they are not on iOS. I think they can on Android. IMO, push notifications should be higher priority than haptic feedbacks 🤷‍♂️

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    Writing a native app, and not just a web wrapper, is a different skillset to writing a PWA. It’s not a quick conversion, it’s a whole new app from scratch and everything would be rewritten.

    This is a superb PWA, and web apps will get better in each iOS release.

    There are plenty of native apps to choose from if you want one.

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        1 year ago

        That lets you access native device features from a webapp/website.

        It doesn’t make a webapp a “native” app. It would still be exactly the same web based technologies - still a very fancy website. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. As wefwef is amazing

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          That lets you access native device features from a webapp/website.

          That’s exactly why I want. It runs pretty smooth anyway, so it’s not really a problem that it’s a webapp.

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    1 year ago

    i guess being a web app gives Android users a taste of Apollo

    i still feel like the web app is going to eventually hit some walls and need to be made into a native app.

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      1 year ago

      I could have a nice icon of my choice and without browser logo under it. really. that’s the only reason. I’m simply a purist and I love to have my UI clean and the way I want it, all my icons have the same form factor and general vibe. I even might give up on wefwef if something decent will come out. And the whole mess because of dumb icon

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      1 year ago

      Just makes it easier for people who are accustomed to searching for useful things mainly on appstores. Many have no idea you can have full functionality in the form of PWAs.

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        1 year ago

        I just love that the dev is able to pump out updates pretty much daily. Getting anything reviewed on both the App Store and Play Store takes ages

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          1 year ago

          yeah, wefwef is my first experience of pwas on ios and the update process is very easy.

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        1 year ago

        As someone who hasn’t really used many PWAs in the past, I am realizing that like 90% of the apps on my phone could probably just be a PWA. Hell, most of them just seem to be wrapping a browser in an iOS app anyway.