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Voyager — a beautiful app for Lemmy
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System context menu for URLs #1173

Open nanangp opened 10 months ago

nanangp commented 10 months ago

The problem Sometimes I would like to perform actions to URLs on a post/comment (e.g. share, open in a specific browser, etc). On the PWA, long pressing on a link pops the system context menu (seen in #441) which allows us to choose an action. On the Android app, we get a useless pop-up as seen in #1123.

This also applies to "Touch Friendly Links" when enabled.

1123 mentioned this being "a native iOS thing". Unfortunately, (1) this is on Android, and (2) it's definitely not native behaviour.

Desired solution System context menu on URL long-press.

Alternatives considered Works on the PWA

aeharding commented 10 months ago

Hi there!

So, unfortunately system context menus are not supported in Android WebView AFAIK. I don't know why. If someone wants to research, that would be welcome, but when I looked into it that seems to just be the way things are. :(