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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    Been trying the place and just have jerboa a shot in comparison. The actual app is better by miles. So much faster than the browser.

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    The WPA’s layout is not crazy good on mobile, but at least I got some real estate.

    Now, how can I contribute? I’m a frontend web developer.

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    As an alternative, there’s also Native Alpha and Hermit (my personal favorite) on Android. Play with the settings to make it full screen and frameless (no address bar at the top). It also has pull down to refresh.

    On kbin, you can then go to your settings and sticky the navbar as well so that it’s always at the top as you browse. Personal preference and all that.

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        thank you so much for that. worked like a champ and i don’t have that black hole staring at me anymore :)

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      Jerboa is a good alternative for Android, too. I’ve been using it for a bit now and it seems to work great.

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      Wait, where’s the option to sticky the top bar? I am not seeing it in my settings but maybe I’m just blind.

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        This is on kbin. Username in the upper right, Settings, scroll down through the stuff there and stop when you see the Delete Account button. Look for the small cog and click it. Turn on the option to sticky navbar - you may want to toggle infinite scrolling and maybe the show icons options while there as well.

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          Oh wow that was kind of hidden, but you just improved this site for me so much. Thank you! Some of these seem better defaults than what is present.

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            Infinite scrolling not being default makes sense IMO. It’s a highly addictive feature, and a bit part of these open source, federated communities is they try to avoid the addictiveness that big tech platforms try to enforce onto their users if possible.

            Sometimes the feature is highly liked by people, so they add it as a non-default option.

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      I just tried installing kbin as described in the post and downloading Hermit and I’m not really seeing a difference between the two options. Am I just missing something?

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        Personal preferences. I like to keep my stuff self-contained. This keeps browsing in the Hermit environment for that PWA rather than in your browser. You aren’t really missing anything though. It might just not suit your needs and be redundant.

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      I tried Hermit before, assumed these features will be locked in premium and didn’t try it more, thank you!

      Any idea why it changed my top bar color to gray while the icons (wifi, etc) are black? It’s not a dealbreaker but it would be nice if there’s a solution I’m missing.

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        Surprisingly, those particular features aren’t locked behind premium. As for the top bar color, you might be able to change the theme in Lemmy/kbin itself in your profile settings to one that suits what you’re looking for. Unless you mean in Hermit itself. In that case, I’m not sure - I use it frameless.

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      Hermit isn’t open source. This makes the code not publicly auditable, which means that verification of security by a third party is impossible.

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      I tried Hermit and noticed that Voyager doesn’t automatically switch between Dark and Light theme (in the night / morning). Workaround is to kill (force close) the app and open it again.

      Do you also face this issue? I can’t remember if with Chrome I was facing it…

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        It saved my sessions in Hermit, so I don’t think I had that issue. But I definitely had that issue when using Brave with it not saving my settings/session between loads.

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          Now I’m trying this “Native Alpha” app. And with this one seems to adapt the system theme (dark or light) without needing a restart of the power app.

          I think I’ll keep this app to run voyager!

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            For what it’s worth, Native Alpha is also open source. I found that out after the fact. So if that’s something you value, Native Alpha might be the better choice overall. Hope it serves you well!

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              Yes and it also works out of the box for (I haven’t had to change any setting…). For example in the other app I had to configure some stuff to hide the top URL bar or something similar.

              Here I just added wefwef url app, I created the icon and voilà!

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          Swiping works for me on iPhone. My only issue is there’s no way to refresh the page from the PWA on iPhone (to my knowledge).

          Posted from kbin.social after “Add to home screen”

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            For me, I can refresh the entire PWA app on my iphone by hitting the hamburger menu on top left, then the home icon on the little sub menu bar top right. But you’re right this doesn’t help if you’re inside a thread or anywhere else. Is there a gesture to do this maybe? Similar to the back button being a left swipe?

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            iPhone with iOS 16 and swiping does not work on kbin PWA but does on other PWA apps. Zooming doesn’t change the situation

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          At least for lemmy it works in my iphone - i dont use the kbin variant unfortunately…

          Probably you could try to zoom out of the page before the swipe… Sometimes, if a website is wider than the screen, the back swipe does not work correctly

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          On Android, you can configure an edge swipe to mean “back”. Though android also has a back button built into the ui, so it doesn’t really mean much.

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      On iOS swiping from the sides works for back/forward.

      On the macOS 14 preview, the app gets back/forward menu items with keyboard shortcuts.

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      Swipe from the edge of the screen on iOS. If anyone knows how to refresh, let me know. Pull down to refresh doesn’t seem to work.

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    I love that this is possible and I gave it a go but for some reason scrolling in the browser is really hard to do, it keeps adding new posts while I’m scrolling and moves everything around making it near impossible to actually read, I thought it might be just loading still but it doesn’t ever come to a stop, not sure if this is just me ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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    I use jerboa for lemmy. Not sure how different it is though. Never used that webapp

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      I find that jerboa has some missing features that are there in the web app. Things like being able to go from a comment in your inbox to that same comment in context in it’s thread.

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        Mybe I will try to add that feature to the app tomorrow if no other contributer hasn’t already. Development of the app seems to move quite fast and a bunch of people are adding stuff. But I agree, there are still a lot of smaller and bigger things missing or wonky.

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            Actually I ran a current development build of the app which seems to have the feature already. There is a small chain icon next to the vote arrows which jumps to the comment and it’s parent and allows to load even more context. So maybe it will ship in the next app update when release :)

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          Have you written for the app before? How did yiu find it? I took a very quick look and plan to try working on it at some point but I don’t know kotlin at all. It’ll take some spinup for me.

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            Yes, I made two small contributions till now. The maintainers seem pretty responsive when new PRs are opened and open to the stuff people are adding. Did not have a thorough look through all the code of the app yet but what I have seen seems structured quite good and I look forward to working more with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Am a Java Dev for work, quite some time since I last worked on an Android App but making small contributions first should get you started

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              I’ll give it a shot as I have time. I’m primarily a Python developer with experience in Go, C, and a smattering of other languages. Should be easy enough to learn enough to contribute some small PRs.

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            I’ve been doing it in the Jerboa app.

            Edit: I lied, it’s not directly from my inbox. NVM. I go to the commenter’s comments and go to the context from there. The comment is usually first or second on their list, so it’s not hard to find. But yeah, extra steps. I wish I could reply from the inbox in general.

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              Someone else pointed out that the dev version of the app may have this feature now, so this feature should be coming pretty soon!

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                Thanks! Right now I am willing to give devs all kinds of slack on what features they offer. They have their hands full with the massive growth the last couple weeks, and I am perfectly happy waiting.

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      I’m primarily using the pwa for now. Jerboa has a nicer UI in most cases, but pwa is a lot smoother, less buggy, and external links open up a lot faster. Also, jerboa has a bunch of minor annyonaces, like trying to select text and it keeps minimizing the comment instead, or how it opens Lemmy links in an external browser.

      A bit more devtime and I’ll switch to it, especially if they add a feature to group multiple communities in a single entry.

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    Some days, I feel like I’m the only person that used Reddit and never touched any of the applications for it.

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      I used old.Reddit on my phone and desktop until I switched to iPhone. Then I switched to Apollo because was like using old Reddit but formatted for phones.

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    First thing I did. Makes it a little more app like. Still can’t wait to see what clients get released in the next few months.

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    Thanks for that. It’s actually a lot better than the app I’m currently using, lol. (Though, I’m sure it will improve).