is wefwef only ment to be web app or will it be released as an app?

I heard the main dev ~~has some sick fascination with~~ is very dedicated to PWA.

Good!

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
Same. The PWA is great.

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

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.
- Currently, they are not on iOS. I think they can on Android. IMO, push notifications should be higher priority than haptic feedbacks 🤷‍♂️
Why should that be a problem? Apollo’s cache for me was on average 50-60MB and it never went over 100MB…

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.

@BitingChaos
Yes... It'll be great if #wefwef made into a native app
@wegettosss @wefwef

What difference would that really make?

Haptics on iOS I really miss from Apollo
- I actually never used Apollo, but I think Memmy has done a great job with that.
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
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