I get that, if things are not changed on the Apple side, websites can’t have proper notification so you are forced to have an app but on android PWA (Progressive Web Apps - basically websites on steroids) are a real thing and you can just “install” the lemmy website of your instance and avoid any bloated app. Are you looking for an app with some feature missing from the website? Are you just unaware of the possibility of installing the website itself? I don’t want to sound rude (English isn’t my first language) but I don’t get what to me looks like an obsession to have a bloated app installed on your phone
I’m an Android developer, I usually spot a non native app immediately and the flaws in the ui are really annoying. Web apps are even worse.
I’m a backend developer so I may be wrong but if the problems are in the UI can’t a different frontend solve the issue? I’m unable to spot the difference between sarif and sens sarif fonts so I really don’t have any reason to install an app if the website offer a usable UI
To me, properly optimized native apps tend to be less-bloated than their web equivalents. Have you ever used “RIF is fun” for reddit? It is amazing, lots of tiny UI optimizations make it a pleasure to consume content much faster than scrolling up and down reddit’s UI for both links and comments
Are you just unaware of the possibility of installing the website itself?
I haven’t heard about this, and I suspect that plenty of people are in the same situation. How do you install a website?
It’s almost the same thing as creating a shortcut from your phone to the website but those websites are usually build with more features and can use notifications, can works offline, etc etc https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/9658361?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&oco=1
Ah lovely, thanks
The experience on the website is awful on mobile, while it’s fairly good on desktop
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I’m using Lemmy from the mobile website while Jerboa still doesn’t let me do some things (at least in the weekend, don’t know if it’s updated) and it almost 70 times bigger than the PWA
I use Jerboa as an app forLemmzy and it doesn’t really feel bloated. I am also a big fan of Infinity for reddit.
Jerboa is 17 MB while the PWA is 248 kb almost 70 times bigger
https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy they should really just wait for this, honestly.
is it some kind of proxy that translate from a format to another to help moving the reddit apps to talk with lemmy? My question remain … why an app instead of a website?
Because sync for reddit is absolutely better than the lemmy website in just about every feasible way.
never find an app I liked for reddit … my question still remain shouldn’t be faster to write a web frontend similar to an app instead of writing a proxy just to keep using an app that waste way more space on the device?
The proxy is hosted on the lemmy instance, it allows the reddit apps to interface with lemmy, it won’t take up more space on the device than the app itself.
One of the last things i’m worried about on my phone is the amount of space I have, i’d rather have a fluid, native interface.
I was talking about the space of the app not the proxy. Sorry but I still don’t get your point … don’t you think that a light PWA can be fluider and faster than an app? It’s surely lighter so it’s an objective point in its favour
PWAs work for sure, but you can really tell its just a full screen mobile website in a vast majority of cases. I am in no way saying PWAs are bad, but with apps that hook into APIs you have much wider latitude for how the data is presented and design choices
Can’t you just write a new web frontend? without having to write an entire app?
That is a possability
