Protip for Apollo users: Wefwef is a lemmy client with Apollo's UI
Protip for Apollo users: Wefwef is a lemmy client with Apollo's UI
wefwef is a beautiful mobile web client for lemmy. Enjoy a seamless experience browsing the fediverse.
Should check out Memmy or Mlem. Both are following Apollo’s UX
Memmy is great and the developer is working on it at a breakneck pace.
Yeah another vote for Memmy. Allthough I’m starting to fear for the devs health since he’s been pushing updates 24/7 for the last week. He’s definitely in the zone.
Thank you! I miss Apollo :(
I’m using Memmy. I like it
It's glorious.
The Memmy beta is full already. They are waiting for AppStore approval and then you can download it. I’m using Mlem at the moment. It’s got a great UI that also has an Apollo feel to it.
Not native, no thanks.
Actually I highly prefer WefWef because it runs at Native like speed, it’s very well built.
I especially like that it’s a PWA and not a native app, because native apps have too many permissions on your phone and they can have so much access to your data in comparison.
It’s not uncommon in this world for someone to make a nice app, another company to buy it and you don’t even realize while your data is being sold. This could definitely happen to a PWA too but the attack surface decreases.
PWAs are cheaper (in this case free) to maintain too. Apple charges you $100/year to be a developer . Google is more generous $25/lifetime for android. These operating systems change often and keep deprecating stuff, forcing devs to continuously fix unnecessarily broken stuff. This doesn’t happen with PWAs as they follow the web standard.
Have to disagree with you here across the board.
native apps have too many permissions on your phone
What permissions are you referring to? On my phone, Apollo was able to send push notifications, and it had restricted access to specifically chosen photos. Otherwise, it can't read the file system outside its sandbox, has restricted background runtime, and can't access sensitive shared data like contacts or health data.
It’s not uncommon in this world for someone to make a nice app, another company to buy it and you don’t even realize while your data is being sold.
That's true, but orthogonal to the question of PWA vs Native. Web apps can let you upload data, access your location, keep track of your accesses, etc. Ultimately, you're running someone else's software on your device, and their software can do privacy-preserving things or they can do gross things with your data, and that can happen on any software stack.
PWAs are cheaper (in this case free) to maintain too. Apple charges you $100/year to be a developer . Google is more generous $25/lifetime for android.
Given the overall cost in time (man-hours) to develop an app, I'm not sure the 100 bucks is that big of a deal to be honest.
These operating systems change often and keep deprecating stuff, forcing devs to continuously fix unnecessarily broken stuff. This doesn’t happen with PWAs as they follow the web standard.
That's not true. Your web app may not break in the same way (i.e., not compile), but OS evolution changes what people expect constantly. A few years ago it wasn't possible for a web app to send push notifications or support dark mode properly, but now they can and people expect it. Browsers also regularly introduce new features like privacy protections that routinely break web apps that weren't built with those behaviours in mind. Also, the OSes look and feel completely different now, and web apps that want to "feel" native will need to adopt their designs constantly no matter what.
Native apps break earlier (at compile time instead of at runtime) but both need to be maintained just as much to stay current, because the OSes people are running - and their expectations - are also changing all the time.
I've been using it as well. It's very good.
I'm hoping to jump over to Sync when it's ready. This can hold me over until then.