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
  • Knighthawk 0811English
    6·
    1 year ago

    works with Firefox

    only downside is that if you choose to install fire multiple instances the admins need to have customized their setting because Lemmy defaults to always be called Lemmy

    • PTZ@lemmy.ptznetwork.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      If you meant instance admins, is there any particular customization? Mine has a unique name but the PWA still created the launcher as “Lemmy”

      I’m assuming that’s coming from a static value in the served manifest.json but I haven’t really investigated or thought about the launcher name until you mentioned it.

      • Knighthawk 0811English
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m not an admin so i don’t know where it’s coming from but i know i tried making a PWA from Lemmy-ml, Lemmy-one and beehaw and they all had the same icon and same name (Lemmy)

        be great if FF just let me customize my own icon myself but they don’t.

    • aRatherDapperFox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Knighthawk 0811English
        1·
        1 year ago

        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

        • aRatherDapperFox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          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.