I have an app for programming my chicken coop. My 401k company just created an app for onboarding new participants.

These should have been mobile friendly webpages.

  • kratoz29
    7•1 year ago

    The most useful PWA I have found is Voyager, and its app counterpart is way better IMHO.

    Native android/iOS apps are way smoother for daily navigation, you also get some perks like notifications and that.

    • @KonekoSalem
      1•1 year ago

      I have not tried out voyager, but just from looking at it’s GitHub, it’s essentially just a web browser packed in a native app anyways.

      Performance shouldn’t really be different from browser app to local app this way unless something is done wrong, or there’s some specific functionality, like async I/o that’s still unsupported.

      Notifications are also a thing in web browsers nowadays. Most device features that you can access in a separate app are actually supported by now.

      • Aa!
        1•1 year ago

        Nah, Voyager is primarily a pwa that works entirely in your phone’s browser.

        They recently packaged it with a browser into an APK because lots of users asked for a “native app” for some reason. But the pwa is still there, and is still the main way it is developed

        But no front end for Lemmy should ever need to be an app.