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FormulaMonks / thicket

Thicket is a decentralized Vine clone built using IPFS
MIT License
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Add UI to explain to user how to add app to home screen #6

Open chadoh opened 7 years ago

chadoh commented 7 years ago

If the user is on a mobile device, we want to let them know that they can add the site as an app on their home screen, and explain how to do so.

chadoh commented 7 years ago

This app will not work on iOS Safari, so doing something like this would be a bit premature. The app might need to run as a native app in order for it to work consistently on all devices. There are too many unknowns, at the moment, for it to make sense to do something like this.

AquiGorka commented 7 years ago

The app sharing idea (the original idea via the decentralized web) will not work with iOS Safari because they have not integrated WebRTC APIs. We could, if we wanted to, still develop an offline first iOS app that records/captures videos/gifs, stores them locally and then the user can share them via current methods (email, messaging apps, centralized social networks). This way we can still showcase offline capabilities for a webapp.

chadoh commented 7 years ago

Hmm, I'm not sure if it's worth it. What do you think? I think I would prefer to skip this for now, and maybe circle back later. Think I should reopen this issue?

AquiGorka commented 7 years ago

Oh, yeah, I added my thoughts before so that we can continue this conversation in the future when/if we decide to pursue this feature. I added it to a new column Ether in the Thicket project - it is not really done and it is closed.

chadoh commented 7 years ago

Do you think it would communicate similar intent if we don't put it on the Lab Experiment board at all, but simply leave it open and off the board?

AquiGorka commented 7 years ago

Yeah. Lets do that.