Just checked Memmy's new app and now I want WefWef to have one
I don't mean to belittle the work done on the web version, but the overall experience will just never be on par with native apps. You can tell from the delays to the occasional hiccups. Are there any projects that aim to port WefWef to iOS? We can sideload it at least.
Just give it time, someone will make a native wefwef clone. It’s open source after all.
Hell, if there’s no native app in a year, I’ll contribute to making one happen.
I would like you to point out some example features that can’t be done on here though that exist in memmy? The hiccups on here are not due to it being a web app.
It's just I'm messing around with Memmy and thinking to myself that WefWef NEEDS this. The Apollo UI was already ironed out, now it's time to bring the native experience to the table as well.
However it’s not likely to happen, app would have likely to be rebuilt from scratch, or just a wrapper around the web app like I mentioned before.
This is more work for the dev to maintain/release a native app for multiple platforms rather than work on one that works universally.
I also think wefwef works great as is. I think whatever issues there may be are likely to improve as the app gets more developed. It is only in Alpha status right now. Not even beta.
What’s on Memmy that’s missing on wefwef? I tried Memmy and it’s certainly quite slick but then i came back to wefwef cause I like the search function better. I don’t find wefwef lacking in features. I think it’s just as refined as Memmy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m also in camp "let wefwef be wefwef", but I think OP isn’t talking about features and more about some little hiccups and the general feeling of the navigation/interaction (wefwef is missing haptics, sometimes scrolling is stuck, interactions freeze for a second, …, little things like that)
I know what you mean, it certainly doesn't feel as smooth as stock Android apps, but I still feel it is smooth enough as a PWA, I don't know what exactly are the limitations on Android for this.
I'd brief my opinion to:
I'd take both options, PWA and standalone app for iOS and Android, this is a too great PWA to just let it die.
I suppose with the app store you'd reach a wider audience. Would it impact the frequency of updates? Or the number of people who can contribute to updates?
I'm not saying to drop the webapp bit rather use it as an alternative front that we can fallback to. But it's true that if WefWef were to beat native app the performance would be crazy good, and the haptic feedback is something to kill for.