Proper PWA websites save very well to phone home screens (like voyager for Lemmy!)
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AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 months agoIf phone OSes made it so there’s less friction to save a web page as an icon on your desktop it would help to resolve that issue I think.
kiagam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
uis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s just two taps in browser to get it on home screen.
flames5123@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s so easy, even on iOS. Just tap share and add to Home Screen. It’s probably just as easy on android.
ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It’s very easy.
Chrome let’s you do “install” websites to home screen, Firefox allows saving shortcuts to home screen.
The annoying thing is that you can’t save them to the app drawer (at least on vanilla android), so if you have a clean home screen you have to sacrifice that.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yep, you’re 100% right. Not sure why I thought it was high friction. I feel like I confused trying to put an icon for an image on my home screen (gym app’s sign in QR code) with sending a web page to the home screen.
Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
At least on android I was able to just add a link to the home screen in Firefox.
Dampyr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think that’s only partly true as companies, especially big ones, want the telemetry and control of a native app instead of just a web page
Hazor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They also want the ability to make you agree to a TOS with an arbitration clause so you can’t sue them when your wife dies because they screwed up her food.