I mean as you said, if it’s literally just a website it doesn’t belong in the App Store.
But Voyager has always been optimized as an app. And this rule is definitely inconsistently applied according to other devs using Ionic :/ I think I just got unlucky.
In any case, it all worked out, and at least there’s a watch app now lol 🤷♂️
The native app has tons of extra functionality than the PWA due to access to native APIs. But yes the watch app was done to get into the App Store because the app “has to sufficiently differ from a web browsing experience.” (Which imo is dumb, tons of apps on the App Store don’t differ from a web browsing experience, they just show pictures in a feed…)
Anyways keyword “sufficiently”… Building the watch app was the only thing I could think of that would meet a conservative definition of “sufficient”.
It is currently permanent (with option to show hidden in communities), but temporary is a good idea. I don't think anyone has requested that on Github yet!
aeharding @ aeharding @lemmy.world Posts 66Comments 902Joined 2 yr. ago
I mean as you said, if it’s literally just a website it doesn’t belong in the App Store.
But Voyager has always been optimized as an app. And this rule is definitely inconsistently applied according to other devs using Ionic :/ I think I just got unlucky.
In any case, it all worked out, and at least there’s a watch app now lol 🤷♂️