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FYI, Lemmy and Kbin are Progressive Web Apps, meaning you can install them as regular apps to your phone's home screen (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On iOS: tap the share button in browser => add to home screen

On Android: tap the 3 dot menu button in browser => tap "install" or "add to home screen"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

FYI, for Firefox on android, I had to use Firefox Nightly for this, as the main version doesn't support PWAs (for some reason)

Edit: I take it back, when I tried to do the install on regular Firefox a few days ago, it didn't work. It does work now, so regular Firefox works for this!

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

It does support them. At least on Android 13 and Firefox version 114.1.1.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

On the same version as you and I've installed this on Firefox but it behaves like a regular website (has an address bar, tabs, etc.). Some other sites installed like this don't have those.

Edit: I tried installing it again and now it works as intended. Maybe some backend update between when I first installed and now?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I had the exact same experience as you. No idea why, but you aren't alone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not sure, to be honest. It worked for me from the day I created my account.

Also, lol, lemmy is eating my comments.

Created Lemmy account in case this happens again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Weeee, created a lemmy account so it stop eating comments when I post from kbin.

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

Same here, I had to clear the link off my home screen and reopen Kbin on Firefox to get a version that wasn't just a web link. For some reason, it looks so much cleaner to me now without the address bar at the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the correction, not sure why the PWA install didn't work for me on regular Firefox a few days ago, but it does work now.