It is indeed a PWA and really solid one at that. Replying from it now. Speaking of which, they’re working on pushing native builds to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store right now. The speed of development has been absurd, super quick.
Kinda sad to see the native app store version of a PWA being pushed. I love the PWA interface, but most people don’t know how to install a PWA, and instead search the app store for the app.
the other two features of a store app vs PWA I can think of are back button doing what you expect, and opening links in a full browser.
On iOS I think there’s some haptic stuff they weren’t able to access via the PWA that they can in the native version. There was also a bug with scrolling getting stuck that was a Safari WebKit bug that Apple has been aware of for 6 years or something so it wasn’t gonna get fixed anytime soon lol. I have both on my iPhone and I honestly can’t tell much of a difference, personally I still like the PWA version
The lemmy app voyager (wefwef) proves this id a lie. That webapp could have fooled me it was a native app.
Isn’t it a PWA though? So isn’t it more app-like?
It is indeed a PWA and really solid one at that. Replying from it now. Speaking of which, they’re working on pushing native builds to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store right now. The speed of development has been absurd, super quick.
Kinda sad to see the native app store version of a PWA being pushed. I love the PWA interface, but most people don’t know how to install a PWA, and instead search the app store for the app.
the other two features of a store app vs PWA I can think of are back button doing what you expect, and opening links in a full browser.
On iOS I think there’s some haptic stuff they weren’t able to access via the PWA that they can in the native version. There was also a bug with scrolling getting stuck that was a Safari WebKit bug that Apple has been aware of for 6 years or something so it wasn’t gonna get fixed anytime soon lol. I have both on my iPhone and I honestly can’t tell much of a difference, personally I still like the PWA version
It’s still a website, so basically you just move a browser tab to separate app