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Is it technically possible to make a client version of this software? (self.photon)

submitted 3 months ago by LazerFX to c/[email protected]

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So I'm looking for a new client, specifically mobile, that's FOSS, easy to use, allows for browsing communities on other instances easily (not just searching for instances, but actually viewing the list of instances, etc).

I'm a dev, so happy to put some legwork into it myself. So my question is - technically, is the UI tied to being run on an instance "directly", or could it be detached, electron- or atom-ified and put into an app?

I can do the work, but before starting I'd like to know :⁠-⁠)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can "install" it as a PWA, and it's basically an app at that point (for all intents and purposes).

[–] LazerFX 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Firefox doesn't support PWA's, so that's a non-starter for me. I did try to get it to work, but I'd also want to tweak the UI scaling to make it a little more mobile-oriented - mainly scaling, and the sort of thing you can do with CSS and a few small tweaks. I suspect, as it's got tablet and desktop scaling already, that could be done by adding another render target.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox supports PWA on Android.

[–] LazerFX 3 points 3 months ago

I... Didn't know that. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

True about FF desktop, but the mobile version does. Lack of PWA support in FF desktop has been an ongoing criticism of mine.

There's also Web App Manager that will let you approximate PWAs on FF desktop. It's shipped with Linux Mint, but I have it installed on both Debian and PopOS. I hate using it, but it's a decent option if you're opposed to having Chromium installed (I use Chromium only for desktop PWAs since I hate Electron).