Need an app better than Jerboa? Go to Beehaw as normal in Chrome, then click the ... menu on the top right of Chrome. Look down and you'll see "Install App". (Edit: this option is normally not there for 99.9% of websites, I'm not taking about Add To Home Page) If you've got a free spot in your launcher a Lemmy icon will show up, otherwise look in your app drawer thing or whatever new apps show up.

This tech is called a "progressive web app" and it's not just a shortcut, because it then behaves like you'd expect an app to behave like.

Anyway, give it a try. A few other sites have this feature, but it's fairly rare and unfortunately underutilized.

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[–] ngwoo 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firefox for Android also has this feature for anyone not using Chrome

[–] tj111@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using Jerboa but just tried this and it works pretty well too!

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[–] denn_moe@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

pro tip for chrome users: use firefox...

[–] Soullioness@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a good idea! Very neat. Also, Jerboa just released a new update that's very good. But it's not on the play store yet I don't think. I got it from gethub.

[–] ex0dus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just use F-Droid

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[–] GhostMagician 4 points 1 year ago

I've been using Hermit to create lite versions of app.

[–] Nonameuser678 3 points 1 year ago

This is super useful. Thanks for the tip

[–] Los 3 points 1 year ago

I think this worked with safari on iPhone as well. Thanks for the tip.

[–] emergencylasagna 2 points 1 year ago

It worked for me and I like it, thankyou.

[–] UniversalFlamingo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tried this with Chrome, Brave and Duck... All three just spin trying to login. 🤷‍♂️