I made a shortcut that lets you change web app icons on iOS, so if you either want to try out the icons or actually use a different icon (maybe one of the other great ones that haven’t made it to the final vote). Here it is: Shortcut link
Arrangement definitely looks off. The icons should have the same distance in between and the labels should just overflow. Also stretch more to the edge
I get what you mean, but it’s one thing to theoretically being able to look it up, and another thing entirely to "promote" it in every app, put development time into it, make it easily visible and encourage people to do so
Okay fair point. I thought the main "web to native conversion" frameworks were wrappers like electron or things like react native that might look familiar to web devs but are still somewhat different. If it’s just a wrapper it strikes me as not really worth it, but if actually native ui comes out at the end and you don’t have to make too many changes that sounds like a decent alternative. Do you happen to know how "native" these apps can be and how much effort it is to convert them?
That question keeps coming up and I’m pretty sure the answer is no. There are other native apps out there, voyager is and will most likely remain a web app.
It’s also not like you can flip a switch and suddenly it’s native. You’d have to rewrite everything from scratch, so there isn’t really a "we already got this far, let’s make it native" happening here.
I do, however, understand why people keep asking for it. There are some aspects to web apps that just feel a bit off, but I think voyager is doing an amazing job at being a web app.
Haha perfect. Not to take away from this, but threads makes the onboarding experience just so much easier and with the existing social graph from instagram they have basically everyone on earth linked already
Yes, it's difficult to judge how an icon actually looks like on the home screen. That's definitely too much detail for that, but looks nice nonetheless
If you’re on iOS, here‘s a shortcut that lets you change the icon to whatever you want.
This is the post about it.