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While you're waiting on a kbin app, you should know the mobile site is entirely functional as a mobile app. Just make a shortcut for your home screen (media.kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by JoeCoT@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Apps are always nice, but lots of mobile websites, including the kbin one, are entirely functional as an app. In your browser you can just make a shortcut to them, and they'll appear on your home screen and act as an app.

In technical terms these are Progressive Web Apps, but it means you don't need to wait for someone to write an app (or kbin to have a good API for doing so) to use it like an app on your phone.

In Firefox it looks like this. Open the website, in the menu hit Install, drag the icon to your desktop. When you click on it it'll open the site like it's a standalone app.

Chrome is exactly the same, but the menu button is "Install App" instead.

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[–] Ohwatafool@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I've been using it this way for a bit. It works pretty well, and I like that I don't have to open it in Safari all of the time. Took me a while to figure out where all of the links were, but I'm still new kbin and the whole fediverse thing so it's all a learning curve.

[–] RodPhoto@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It fails at respecting my screen's orientation lock on Android, so when in bed it kept rotating to landscape and that was extremely annoying, so had to remove it.

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[–] Xiphorang@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I visit here on my PC, but this is what I do for Mastodon on my phone, and it works great.

[–] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Can’t pull up to refresh though

[–] WeDoTheWeirdStuff@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It has a lot of display quirks though. Hopefully it improves

[–] Rubric@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

I’ve found the webpage-based nature of this site does work really well, but only really on Safari on iOS. Other browsers for iOS seem a bit buggy.

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