I heard the main dev
has some sick fascination withis very dedicated to PWA.Good!
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.
I’m also curious if haptics can be implemented in a PWA. I’ve seen conflicting info.
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I hope it stays PWA.
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
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.
Actually, as I understand it, wefwef is built using the Ionic framework, which has a really handy tool called Capacitor that lets you port over a web app to native really easily. It’s pretty neat!
https://ionicframework.com/docs/native
Edit: more info https://capacitorjs.com/
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
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.
Agreed! It’s made me realise how good webapps can be
What difference would that really make?
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.
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.
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
yeah, wefwef is my first experience of pwas on ios and the update process is very easy.
Haptics on iOS I really miss from Apollo
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.
