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Voyager for Apple Watch is amazing (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just discovered there is an Apple Watch app, I love it, ty :)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait what?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this was done to get the PWA in the App Store because otherwise it wouldn’t add any value over just using the web version and therefore not be allowed in the store.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The native app has tons of extra functionality than the PWA due to access to native APIs. But yes the watch app was done to get into the App Store because the app “has to sufficiently differ from a web browsing experience.” (Which imo is dumb, tons of apps on the App Store don’t differ from a web browsing experience, they just show pictures in a feed…)

Anyways keyword “sufficiently”… Building the watch app was the only thing I could think of that would meet a conservative definition of “sufficient”.

God I hate the App Store.

https://lemmy.world/post/2923321

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And I thank you for it. I had to sit through multiple kids Christmas concerts this year, and having this on my watch was a lifesaver.

[+] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean as you said, if it’s literally just a website it doesn’t belong in the App Store.

But Voyager has always been optimized as an app. And this rule is definitely inconsistently applied according to other devs using Ionic :/ I think I just got unlucky.

In any case, it all worked out, and at least there’s a watch app now lol 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any chance you could add the ability to browse the all feed from the watch app? I don’t really subscribe to many communities so the feed on my watch is rather bare. I prefer to browse all in the app, would be amazing to be able to do the same on my watch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, just make a request on GitHub!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I hope we eventually get a version for Wear OS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sorry for the ignorance, but what kind of uses does it have on a watch?

Is it for scrolling through your feed in the watch screen? Is it good?