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I’m not sure if you’ve tried this PWA called Wefwef but it feels like a fully featured Apollo client for Lemmy already. You just go to the site and add it to your home screen. No beta to sign up for. No TestFlight link. Just add the PWA.

It’s good. It’s really really good.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So far my favourite is Memmy but I really like Wefwef too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I can't figure out how to try memmy on Android. All of their instructions are ios focused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I could kiss you OP. This is the best recommendation ever!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

For multilingual people. Please be aware that wefwef will fail upon posting comments, if you have selected more than 1 language in your Lemmy profile. Wefwef comes back with the error message that you need to select a language in your Lemmy profile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yup, that's Apollo in a web browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wow, can you link it?

Edit: I found it and wow it really is exactly like Apollo!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Holy shit. I have Apollo. On my Android phone. For Beehaw!

This is amazing! PWAs are so awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

WefWef rocks. It has a nice name, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am trying it now for the first time on Android. But everytime I want to go back with the back button of the navbar, the app quits. Is that intended behavior?

[–] esty 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have it installed as a PWA? the back button works fine for me, installed, chrome on android 13

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, I have it installed as a PWA with the current Chrome version.

Edit: after an wefwef update it works!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No it isn't. Works as intended for me on both Firefox and Brave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Since an update this morning it is working fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Posting from it now, it’s fantastic!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It’s really good and well made as well, put in a pull request today to add a feature and getting it setup locally as a dev was so easy!

I’m very tempted to self host it on my instance as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It immediately felt so right that I committed half an hour to really figuring out what this was and how it all worked. Okay to be fair I only kind of know how it all works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It is indeed very, very good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think my favorite app is Thunder. Serious RedReader vibes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Trying it now. Thunder is really good but it feels like it’s designed for Android not iOS. Very “material you” feeling.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Wow this is great - thanks for the hot tip!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Omg I just checked out wefwef. I hope they release a downloadable app soon. The UI is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is incredible, thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm using it right now and it's really cool!

...Why isn't the bookmark button working though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

As an Android user, wefwef is such a fantastically designed app. I was still using an old iPhone and iPad Pro to browse Reddit as a longtime Apollo Ultra user so the UI is just perfect for my tastes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, this is really nice. It'll be really cool once PWAs are usable on macOS and it'll become my go to way to access Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It looks really nice, kind of funny seeing the iOS-UI on Android. But I loved Apollo before switching to Android.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah it’s my favorite so far as well!

Memmy and Mlem are great native apps

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