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Voyager released to Google Play! (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by aeharding@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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Hi there!

Voyager has been released to Google Play! You can check it out here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager

Please try it out and let me know what you think below! Because it's brand new, let me know if you have any problems relative to the web app and I'll try to fix them ASAP. And if you have time, leave a review, that helps Voyager gain exposure.

Why use the native Android version? Well, there's a couple main benefits:

The back button works much better!
Your browser history shouldn't be inundated with Voyager entries.

Please note, it's currently a slightly outdated version of Voyager. Hopefully it should update soon!

As for Apple peeps, that's still in progress. If you're on TestFlight and have an Apple Watch, check out the brand new Apple Watch app (coming very shortly in an update). It's quite simple at the moment, but kind of neat and useful!

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[-] Chenzo@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

As a developer of PWAs, can I ask how you ported it to Android? Did you use something like React Native?

(Regardless, I love me my Voyager PWA app. thank you!)

[-] aeharding@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Check these out: https://ionicframework.com and https://capacitorjs.com :)

[-] Chenzo@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

NICE. Yeah, a buddy of mine is constantly talking up Ionic.

Thanks again! Great work on the app, my man!

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Seems like Capacitor has some performance issues with Webview (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1289741). Things got a tiny bit better for me after I updated WebView to the Canary build. Both webviews have still better performance than the PWA with Firefox, but they are slightly less smooth than the PWA with Chrome.