Need an app better than Jerboa? Go to Beehaw as normal in Chrome, then click the … menu on the top right of Chrome. Look down and you’ll see “Install App”. (Edit: this option is normally not there for 99.9% of websites, I’m not taking about Add To Home Page) If you’ve got a free spot in your launcher a Lemmy icon will show up, otherwise look in your app drawer thing or whatever new apps show up.
This tech is called a “progressive web app” and it’s not just a shortcut, because it then behaves like you’d expect an app to behave like.
Anyway, give it a try. A few other sites have this feature, but it’s fairly rare and unfortunately underutilized.
- ngwoo ( @ngwoo@beehaw.org ) English10•1 year ago
Firefox for Android also has this feature for anyone not using Chrome
- tj111 ( @tj111@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
I’ve been using Jerboa but just tried this and it works pretty well too!
- fuzzy_feeling ( @denn_moe@feddit.de ) English4•1 year ago
pro tip for chrome users: use firefox…
- Soullioness ( @Soullioness@lemmy.world ) English4•1 year ago
That’s a good idea! Very neat. Also, Jerboa just released a new update that’s very good. But it’s not on the play store yet I don’t think. I got it from gethub.
- ex0dus ( @ex0dus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English5•1 year ago
Just use F-Droid
- GhostMagician ( @GhostMagician@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
I’ve been using Hermit to create lite versions of app.
- Los ( @Los@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
I think this worked with safari on iPhone as well. Thanks for the tip.
- Nonameuser678 ( @Nonameuser678@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
This is super useful. Thanks for the tip
- PeelerSheila ( @emergencylasagna@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
It worked for me and I like it, thankyou.
- UniversalFlamingo ( @UniversalFlamingo@lemmy.world ) English1•1 year ago
Tried this with Chrome, Brave and Duck… All three just spin trying to login. 🤷♂️