So Jerboa broke on my phone just now and I didn’t want to stop browsing Lemmy. Unfortunately no suitable alternative was found so I just decided to check if I could open it in my browser and install it.
To my surprise, it worked. And it works really well quite frankly. Sure, the UI is different, but I’m not at all missing any features.
Did any of you guys try it as well? What’s your opinion?
If not, did you even know that was a possibility? It quite frankly never crossed my mind, because Reddit and other platforms always force you to use an app when you open them in a browser.
Installing it as a PWA on my iPhone causes the history buttons to disappear (since they’re part of the browser). This means that if I open a comments page, I can’t get back to the post list again. I can tap on the logo to get to the main page, but my scrolling position is lost, so I’d have to scroll down to find where I stopped scrolling last time.
Yeah no, still have to use an app.
I don’t have it installed right now but I’m pretty sure the system-wide back-swipe gesture still work here, doesn’t it?
Yes, works well, no issue.
Yeah, I discovered that after posting that comment. I never use those gestures, so I forgot to try that.
How do you go back in an app? Do you always tap the button at the top? For me that’s super impractical and I even got a small iPhone.
I can’t reach the left side of the screen with one hand anyways, so both ways are similarly uncomfortable.
Oof, same on Android. That’s a complete deal breaker for using the PWA.
Why dont you use the back button on Android?
Well, for starters there is no back button in the PWA on Android. Swiping from the right to go back completely refreshes the feed.
Strange that’s happening for you. It’s definitely not an all android thing. Must be something about your specific model or your settings. The only time my button bar disappears is with games and even then it’s still accessible by swiping up from the bottom.
This is not an issue for me. I swipe back and it returns to where I left.
the back button works fine when I use Firefox and install a PWA with it.
You can see it happening here https://streamable.com/6alycz
like I’ve said, it works fine for me: https://streamable.com/fb300o
Looks like 0.18.0 update broke it. 0.17.4 was good.
Yea I can hold down on the button and get the normal history menu from Firefox. They may be using gesture navigation tho and idk how that is affected.
I use gesture navigation and the back button works without reloading.
I think android has both gestures with a back button and without (using a gesture for back) which I think is giving people issues, tho I’ve never used it myself bc I cannot stand it, IMO it’s change for the sake of change.
which app are you using? I can‘t seem to find any on my (Swiss) AppStore…
I have signed up for TestFlight beta testing for Mlem.
thanks, I tried that for a few days but turns out I can‘t live without a search function… trying wefwef now! so far pretty great