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What is the difference between a regular app and a web app? Does iOS have WebApps or is just an Android thing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by void_hunter@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been using wefwef WebApps to browse the fediverse and am curious to understand how it works. I do not have knowledge deep knowledge about coding or programming.

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[–] PatF@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iOS has them too. Really it’s just saving a bookmark to your home screen that opens in a browser with a stripped down UI. I use Memmy for browsing Lemmy but I have wefwef saved to play with too. It’s pretty much indistinguishable from a native app. The only give away is how page elements load. It’s just slightly different.

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

Also lack of haptics, if you’re used to them

[–] misterbassman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Haptics are possible if you aren't using iOS. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/vibrate