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App-like mobile experience on Android (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This works with Chrome. Knighthawk 0811 says it works with Firefox as well.

  1. Go to your Lemmy instance
  2. Open the browser menu
  3. Tap on "Install app"
  4. Tap "Install" in the dialog
  5. Tap on the newly created Lemmy shortcut on your home screen
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I try it with Firefox (ver. 113.2.0, on Android 13 Pixel 6) I can't get my keyboard to work? If I pull up lemmy.ml on the FireFox browser, and go to create a post, I can type all day long and be fine. When I use the "Install to..." To put the page on my home screen like an app, then try and create a post my keyboard flickers on screen for a second and disappears. No clue why.

It does this with other website-as-an-app things (I don't know what to actually call them) too, not just Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the name is "progressive web app" or PWA.

i wonder if you chosen keyboard could be the problem? I'm using the FF Android on a pixel 6 myself right now as i type this. i think i use the Google keyboard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm just using the stock keyboard... 😅 I have two languages enabled at the moment. I can try disabling one and seeing if that makes a difference.

EDIT: No change. Tried disabling the emoji key, still no dice. And it's on any website, not just Lemmy. So strange.