• themizarkshow@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Came here to say this.

      Without the restrictions of being on App Stores and going through reviews, devs can move so much faster. I feel like two or three times a day it tells me a new version can be grabbed, and it’s caught up to and bypassed the alpha/beta apps from Testflight which get updated once a week (if lucky).

  • kelp_licker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    I think it works perfectly as it is now except for the Safari bug where swiping back a page makes it refresh the page and force you back to the top of it. I guess there’s nothing the wefwef devs can do about it but damn it’s annoying.

  • s08nlql9@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    as a web app, it can be installed on any device that has a browser. Dev doesn’t also need to publish his work in app/play stores which may require extra payment

    • lukenamop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      And since it doesn’t have to be published in any app stores, it can be updated much more quickly and frequently.

        • techgearwhips@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          This. I pressed update on my Android, iPhone, and Desktop and it only took like half a second. This PWA is scary good.

          • The dogspaw @midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I thought pwa were supposed to suck but I honestly haven’t even looked at any other apps because wefef works so well

            • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              This is what blows my mind. PWAs have always been sort of ok. But wefwef is just <chef’s kiss.gif>

        • pixxel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          generally Google play is rather fast, but Apple can be insanely slow sometimes. At my work we’ve had up to 6 working days to get approval of very minor updates. That’s the reason why technologies like react native with over the air updates have gotten as prominent as it has.

          As someone who leads an app development team I’ve started liking pwas more and more the last couple of years. Especially for apps that doesn’t do more complex stuff than making api calls and rendering the result to the screen in the form of text.

        • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          I think they maybe have to be approved first so that people aren’t updating their apps with something malicious

            • burak@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              No. The browser (which is the runtime that pwas use) is already a very limited environment with little to access to the system - and if the app wants to access something potentially sensitive, then the browser asks for permission. Even then it doesn’t have access to nearly anything that a native app can access.

    • Pleonasm@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think from the point of view of speed/ease of development, the webapp makes more sense for now. Once it’s more stable, perhaps a native app is worth trying for performance reasons.

    • deranger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The portability is awesome. I switched to wefwef and had it going on all my devices in minutes. Web apps don’t have to suck. Apps also have more privacy implications than a PWA.

  • throne_deserter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    This is the first web app that I have used which installs, updates, and works like it does. I literally had no idea that something so streamlined and efficient could be done in such a way. Hats off to the developer, I’ll gladly buy wefwef if he ever makes it available on the App/Playstore.

    • basskitten@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I am a programmin’ folk, and I was even considering making a Lemmy reader for my own amusement, but wefwef is so good that I’m not going to bother. I wish I had time to learn React and the rest so I could contribute myself, but my brain is already full of frameworks and I’m afraid if I try to learn a new one, it will push out one that I actually need for my job.

  • OR3X@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Dude, I didn’t know PWAs could be so good. I’m running the OG Google Pixel and the performance is excellent!

  • fer0n@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    There are definitely advantages to native apps and I basically always prefer them, but wefwef is doing an absolutely amazing job and there are upsides to web apps as well (cross platform, updates, …).

    I‘d probably also prefer having this app as a native app, but that means either wrapping it, which doesn’t give you many advantages, or rebuilding it entirely at which point you‘re using a different technology stack than the one people building this are so good at.

    There are other people doing that and many of them have the same Apollo in mind while doing so. Let’s just wait and see what each one of them can do, I’m definitely excited :)

  • youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’m amazed how well it works. Didn’t know a PWA could be this good. The only thing that I really miss is being able to save posts to check later, because I hide read posts.

    Edit: oh and the option to block communities and users.

  • 2bR02b@lemmy.oneEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    “It’s so good it should be something else” - can’t argue with that thought process

    • Jaccident@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yes and no, there are a great deal of good reasons that some OS features are only available to binary deployments, one such being that the code is sent through manual and automated testing by the platform holders. Ultimately some things can’t be made available to all apps running in WebKit or similar as the implementation isn’t scrutinised.

  • yoichi@lemm.eeEnglish
    74·
    1 year ago

    I’m not saying that the PWA is horrible, but I think a native app would be better too. Really, the only issue I have with it is the refresh rate. For some reason, the display randomly switches to 60hz, especially when sliding to go to the previous page.

    Using the developer options to see the current refresh rate does not represent this, but you can clearly see it. I feel that a native app would be able to force 120hz throughout the app.

    The only reason I say this is because, when first tried to install the PWA from Kiwi Browser which was pretty smooth but switched to 60hz here and there. I thought this was because of Kiwi Browser so installed the PWA from Chrome. When I did that, it was fully in 120hz only, completely unusable, so I went back to the Kiwi PWA

    Edit: the refresh rate is fine while in Chrome browser, it’s only in the installed PWA that the refresh rate goes to shit. Anyone who has a 120hz display knows that even going back to 60hz for a second is jarring.

    • esty@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      shit i never even noticed it wasn’t 120hz, and it’s weird that only the PWA suffers and the app in chrome runs fine

      i don’t think i can unsee it…

  • Pika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    I agree, I would likely use it if it was an actual app, sadly due to restrictions web apps have on my device I can’t use it xD