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cm0002@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Booo, Boost is great and absolutely worth the couple bucks, that goes to a solo dev.

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artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You can send your bucks to these devs too, without sending 30% of it to support Google.

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- cm0002@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  I don't even know where to start with this. It's only available from the Play Store, meaning you have to have a device with a Google account logged in system-wide.
  
  Further, if you want to give money to the devs, the other options also make that available without a 30% tax applied to support one of the largest monopolistic corporations on Earth.
  
  He has an alternative donation platform. If you contact him, he might be open to giving you an APK if you donate through that. Orr you could just donate through that and install an "acquired" APK. Orr just donate through that and block ads system wide with an APK installed through a proxied store (e.g. Aurora Store). For the longest time I didn't even realize boost had ads because of my ad blocking LMAO
  
  And they're also just better...
  
  Boost is a native UI, both Voyager and Blorp (While visually appealing) are just web wrappers and I absolutely despise web wrapper "apps". Boost also beats Voyager in customization (won't comment on Blorp, never tried Blorp)
  
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  - artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    Boost is a native UI, both Voyager and Blorp (While visually appealing) are just web wrappers
    
    What's the difference?
    
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    cm0002@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    WebApps are just...so laggy, Voyager is prob the least laggy React app I've ever seen...but there're still noticeable points where it is
    
    Native UIs, while not entirely immune to lag, is tons better and generally use far less resources to achieve it
    
    For a technical difference:
    
    Voyager/Blorp use React which is basically JavaScript and typically requires the app to ship with everything needed to run JavaScript. Each app runs a "mini-browser". Though it has its pros because you only need to develop one app for all platforms.
    
    Native UIs use the UI elements provided by the OS and each platform you release the app on must be developed separately, but it can also be optimized with less effort and less resources.
    
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