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getmango / Mango

Mango is a self-hosted manga server and web reader
https://getmango.app
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[Feature Request] Support standalone mobile web app #296

Closed alethiophile closed 2 years ago

alethiophile commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It would be nice for Mango to support the standalone web app system in iOS and Android. This allows it to act like an app on its own, rather than only being accessible in a browser tab.

Describe the solution you'd like This can be enabled trivially by serving a few meta tags in the Web page output.

Describe a small use-case for this feature request The use case is to run Mango as a standalone app rather than a browser tab.

Additional context Note that this is related to, but distinct from, #185. Support for offline reading is common among standalone web apps in this general category, but not required.

hkalexling commented 2 years ago

We do have #262. Is that what you are looking for?

GlassedSilver commented 2 years ago

We do have #262. Is that what you are looking for?

Without background workers that really just ends up being a multi-window-moded browser experience rather than something that feels self-contained and more like an app.

Yes it's not clogging up your tabs, but it's a very subpar experience and not really a web app.

Or rather that's the thing I know that can separate the good old "add to home screen" shortcut from an actually "installed" web app.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Add_to_home_screen#what_does_a2hs_not_give_you

hkalexling commented 2 years ago

@GlassedSilver Yeah I totally understand, and in fact we do have plans for an official React Native app (it's in a private repository at the moment). I was just replying to what @alethiophile said as I think we already have what they were requesting

This can be enabled trivially by serving a few meta tags in the Web page output.

hkalexling commented 2 years ago

I am going to close the issue because

  1. The requested feature seems to exist already. If I misunderstand what you said, please let me know, and we can reopen the issue.
  2. I think a dedicated React Native app will offer a better mobile experience. I would rather not go down the progressive web app rabbit hole.