I had never heard of this and I was really confused how I got a kbin app on my phone. When I got home and tried to "install the app" on my tablet I couldn't figure out how to install it. I searched on the Play Store and couldn't find it. I double checked the app information on my phone's icon and it said "Installed from the Google Play Store", so I was really confused.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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What the hell, I was just recently talking about it. I'm happy to hear it's already a thing. Thanks!
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!
It does support them. At least on Android 13 and Firefox version 114.1.1.
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?
I had the exact same experience as you. No idea why, but you aren't alone.
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.
Weeee, created a lemmy account so it stop eating comments when I post from kbin.
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Any updates on Mlem? I tried installing TestFlight but it says the beta is full.
Memmy is another one theyβre testing and itβs way more stable than Mlem
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Thanks for the π let me know if you run into any issues
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Yeah! Kbin PWA is great. (Though there's a very small amount of sidescroll that makes my frontend web dev heart cry a bit... maybe I should open a pull request for it :))
Though it seems to override my screen orientation settings, making it hard to read while lying in bed XD
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Thank you just did this with Chrome on Android! Easier than having to open a new chrome tab every time for sure
Thank you!! I literally had no idea about this. You rock!
Thanks for the heads up! Scrolling is smoother now while waiting for jerboa to fix their app.
I'm signed up on both, now. So let it be known; I am Geronimo
Does anyone know of any apps for Lemmy on iOS? Iβm using Mlem and Memmy through Test Flight, as well as the Lemmy web app as explained in the post, but Iβd like to know if thereβs any more I could test out as well
Oh wauw thank you!
Did that with lemmy, but at least in my case it just happens too often that I get an infinite loading circle when switching threads and then I have to reload the entire page, which isn't possible when not in the real browser. Even closing the web app and reopening them doesn't help but once I open the page in Safari it works just fine.
Mlem for iOS just got an update which gives us the compact thread style I much prefer over the current web app look but it seems like I can't edit comments there and I also don't see any notifications so there's still a lot of work to be done before it becomes an option.
And kbin I just don't use on the phone at all as long as we can't collapse comment chains.