Voyager might become a native App in the future! (sort of)
Voyager might become a native App in the future! (sort of)
It is a limitation of a PWA. A native app (wrapper) will likely be coming though, and a custom Capacitor plugin could theoretically interface with the native API to switch out icons. Theoretically. No promises though :)
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Voyager is perfect as is. Lightning fast to get updates, don't need to be at the mercy of Apple or Google to get into the official stores. And less work for the developers to publish a new version.
As users you don't perceive a difference. A native app in theory could cause your system to be vulnerable if a bug exists.
Because of the above reasons I'd really like Voyager to remain a PWA.
Voyager is perfect as is.
Except for the scrolling issue on iOS. If they don’t figure out a way to resolve that, I don’t care how many features they keep adding, I’m out. I’ve been tolerating it so far, and everybody keeps hand waving it away with “it’s a limitation of safari” and “all you have to do is not touch the screen for a second and it works like normal”. Uhh…no. This needs to be fixed. Once people have multiple other options, that don’t have this hindrance, (and honestly, I think we’re probably well past that point already) I can’t imagine too many people wanting to use this app vs literally any other choice.
What scrolling issue? The missing top-tap scroll-to-top functionality?
Every minute or so the app just refuses to scroll at all. The screen freezes up and nothing happens. The only solution is to sit and wait for a second without touching the screen until it decides to work properly again.
It’s borderline unusable, and I can’t fathom how so many people experience it and just tolerate it. I’ve just filed it under “Lemmy as a whole is new and kind of janky and it will eventually improve” but it’s starting to get to the point where it needs to be fixed or people will abandon this app for one that doesn’t have that problem.
Ug that sucks.
For the data point, I don’t have that issue. Not sure what the difference is. I’m using an iPhone 12 mini and iOS updated to the latest. Voyager works really well for me. Remarkably well.
Clearly it’s a problem many are having based on the upvotes. Hope it can be fixed.
So what you're saying is Apple sucks at programming, so you want voyager to make an iOS app?
I’m didn’t say or imply either part of that, but I guess nice try on trying to put words in my mouth for some odd reason.
Capacitor apps can be both.
I don’t think them making the native app wrapper means the PWA is going away
Nothing is so perfect that it can’t be complained about. Also, voyager definitely has some (admittedly smaller) annoyances that stem from it being a web app.
annoyances that stem from it being a web app.
Such as?
- scroll-to-top doesn’t work
- back swipe is unreliable (works 30% of the time)
- after going back you have to wait a second before you can scroll
- no app icons packs
- no haptics
- text select doesn’t work if you immediately go down since it scrolls the page instead
Don’t get me wrong, it’s still impressive. But I‘m very aware that it’s a web app and I have to step carefully. These might be small things, but they’re constantly annoying me.