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Voyager might become a native App in the future! (sort of) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well... Part of that is just that web apps have much worse efficiency and performance compared to native apps. That's not to say their performance and efficiency is bad, but a native app will beat a web app everytime. The DOM and JavaScript are just not great models in terms of efficiency and performance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How is your performance with Voyager?

[–] kryllic 6 points 1 year ago

In my opinion, it's been great and feels pretty close to native anyway. Some issues with the screen freezing when trying to scroll after swiping away from a post but other than that, it's super nice. Plus updates are so quick to install, really like that too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Problematic

I get lots of random freezes, actions not registering, etc

Doesn’t make it unuseable, but it’s not a great experience

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With all browsers?, here runs fine with chromium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The main issue is Safari, bugs in webkit bog everything down. And iOS is stuck with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No browser as far as I know. I installed the PWA and haven’t touched anything else.

I’m on iOS exclusively with no plans to use a desktop interface

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think it's acceptable, though I am working on my own ... for now experimental ... Lemmy client in C++/Qt/QML ... maybe eventually for desktop and mobile devices alike :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A desktop client would be a game changer for sure.