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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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[โ€“] haeilsey@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It works alright, but it isn't entirely functional. It took me about 20 tries to actually click on the post on mobile. I have no idea why sometimes trying to come into a post just won't work at all

[โ€“] iahadwutu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I found that it's really clunky in firefox on Android. I switched to Chrome and it's much smoother and more responsive. I'm not sure why that is though.

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