I was just prompted that a PWA was available for kbin. I now have it installed, really great to see this. IMO it is a great stopgap until native apps are available.
Yep! I’m using it now! Good so far. Only complaint as of now is that I can’t keep it from auto-rotating for some reason.
I can confirm, didn’t notice it until your comment. Need to submit a big report somewhere.
On iPhone this doesn’t happen for me when I lock the screen from the control center. Locking it at the phone level stops auto-rotation completely.
Good to know. Thanks
How do you set this up?
I think its just the ‘add to homescreen’ option in the browser that makes a shortcut to open the website in a dedicated browser window on your phone.
If so, my issue with the PWA is that I cant get it to default to the subscribed feed, I always have to manually navigate to /sub
Default feed is set in your profile. Click on your username, click settings, change Homepage to Subscribed, then click on save to apply setting.
that changes what happens when I click on the logo, but not what loads when navigating to “kbin.social” and the PWA seems to only load “kbin.social” no way to get /sub as a pwa
maybe you can try deleting the PWA and then installing it again, but from the /sub URL? Because I went to kbin.social/ (the root) and installed the PWA from there and I figure that’s why it’s just going to kbin.social/ every time.
Yeah, I tried that already. no matter what page I’m on it does kbin.social
I guess it must be built into the PWA somehow which specific web page it will land on.
I’m holding hope that a 3rd party kbin app will be available soon. I’ll probably use both just because but I think there are somethings that can be done better in a native app, especially in terms of customization.
Oh ok thanks!
For Chrome on Android the “Add to Home screen” menu option was is now “Install App” which will put an icon for/kbin in the app drawer and the app opens in a dedicated browser window sperate from chrome and its tabs.
same for firefox!
On iOS, press the ‘share’ button (box with an arrow coming out the top) and look for ‘add to home screen +’
I really like the PWA - I was able to install it on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 from 2012! Not too many apps can be installed on that phone nowadays. Alas, I can’t get it onto my equally ancient iPhone 5 - that one just opens a new tab in Safari.
