• rebul
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      191 year ago

      I would prefer to see a wider embrace of PWAs.

      • @rmuk@feddit.uk
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        241 year ago

        This is what really, really pissed me off about the iPhone. When it launched and they gave it a desktop-class web browser engine and told people they were going all-in in PWAs (though I don’t think the term existed at the time). Then v2 came out and they went sike! native apps, must be developed on our PCs, must be distributed by us, you must pay us to be allowed to develop, we take a cut of your income, and we’re going to cripple the PWA engine to make universal, open apps all but unusable.

        Dicks.

          • @rmuk@feddit.uk
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            31 year ago

            Yes, if the underlying engine is designed to support it. There are standard web APIs for accelerated graphics, compute, offline storage, Bluetooth, push notification, environmental sensors, phone book access, camera, local storage access, and so on… A decent PWA is indistinguishable from a native app.

      • @Carter@feddit.uk
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        31 year ago

        Is there any way of “installing” PWAs to the app drawer rather than been limited to a shortcut on the home screen?

        • @SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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          41 year ago

          Depends on the PWA, if they have the manifest setup properly it should give the option by itself and even the add to desktop button should change to install the app, but very few sites support it (among the ones I use)

          • @essteeyou@lemmy.world
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            I do love Kotlin, but I work extensively with audio playback on a low level (Oboe, native) so a web app just won’t work for me.

            Also, I can’t really justify rewriting my company’s entire app because I don’t like Google’s monopoly.

        • Jerkface (any/all)
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          171 year ago

          Can you elaborate on “limited”? Surely that is what we want. One of the problems with the Play store is certainly not that it does not have a wide enough selection, but rather that it is full of harmful, hostile, dangerous, exploitive software. Any solution to that problem is necessarily going to limit (or one might prefer to say curate) its contents. That is exactly why I use F-Droid. It is limited to software that is not trying to hurt me.

          • @lickmysword@sh.itjust.works
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            81 year ago

            I guess F-Droid is limited in the sense of low user awareness? Similar to lemmy in the sense that its just not that popular atm, but maybe its gaining popularity?

            • @null@slrpnk.net
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              41 year ago

              Sure, but that’s not going to be helped by making something new that’s “compelling” – which is the topic at hand

            • Jerkface (any/all)
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              Those products that you “need” to function as professionals are never going to be available in a way that does not exploit you and put you at risk. You’re always going to be trapped with the incumbent marketplace’s shitty practices until you take steps to meet those needs in some other way.

              You do not have to personally audit every application you use. After all, you DON’T audit closed applications, and neither does anyone else. At least with an application with code available under a public license, other people have the ability to review it and raise concerns. I can’t see how you can cast that as a disadvantage, just because you don’t personally want to audit the software yourself.

              Personally, I’m not comfortable predicating my very livelihood on closed, commercial software that somebody else owns and leverages with the specific intention of exploiting me. That sounds like fucking madness to me.

      • @essteeyou@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        Can I get my banking app on F-Droid? How about my home security system app? How about a dozen other apps that I want or need, and can’t be replaced by loading a website in Firefox?

        • @butter@midwest.social
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          71 year ago

          This is entirely on the companies. There’s no technical reason or requirement for this happening.

          Fdroid works great and is the most likely thing to be adopted, in my opinion. It’s easy enough for anyone to spin up their own fdroid server and distribute their own app.

          If you’re wanting to use a new store, you’re going to have to wade through the growing pains of adoption. It’s just a fact of life.

          • @essteeyou@lemmy.world
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            -21 year ago

            I’m still waiting for Linux on desktop to be a big thing like I thought back in 2004. I suspect the third party app stores will be just as quick.

        • Cris
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          21 year ago

          Wait, I assume if you install a banking app through Aurora it still works? Totally fair if that doesn’t work for your needs (you kinda need a google account, even if a blank one, to have it work right now) but I assume installing apps through it doesn’t limit them or make them less functional for having been installed through Aurora?

    • carnha
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      81 year ago

      Accrescent is in early alpha, but it looks like it’s on its way to be a great, modern app store.

        • @ExLisper@linux.community
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          21 year ago

          We’re talking about stock android having 3rd party app store with permissions to install apps in the background. Yes, you can install f-droid but on a stock android it can’t update apps automatically. It’s not an alternative for normal users. And as long as 3rd party stores are not used by normal users app developers will not care about publishing apps there. What needs to happen is that EU needs to force google (and apple) to allow alternative stores, some heavy weights have to support it and developers need to start publishing apps there.

          • @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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            21 year ago

            Droid-ify can install apps in background (or at least without the package installer popup. The main f-droid app is still targeting too low of an android version to do it.

            • @ExLisper@linux.community
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              11 year ago

              f-droid can install app in the background on my iode OS. It’s not a technical problem, it’s a legal issue. Google and apple don’t allow 3rd app stores preinstalled on the phones.

              • @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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                11 year ago

                Thats because the fdroid extension is installed. By default it cant do that. Google added the ability for app stores that target android 12 and above to update apps that also target android 12 or above without the package installer.