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Wil PieFed support Lemmy app api? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Nerrad@lemmy.world to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Wondering if the roadmap for PieFed includes being able to use Lemmy mobile clients like Boost and Liftoff?
Its running ok as a web app in Android atm.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not on the roadmap, currently. But if someone wanted to contribute code to make that happen I wouldn't veto it.

If the web site is built properly it should be able to provide a mobile experience that is as good as any app. The big advantages that apps have is that they have direct access to the phone hardware. But there is nothing about PieFed that requires direct access to the phone hardware (3D graphics, sensors, storage, etc) so at the moment my effort is best directed at making the web site's mobile version as good as it can be.

If your phone's browser supports it, you can get a PieFed icon on your phone's app launcher / home screen by using PWA: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/system/media_attachments/files/111/710/493/644/170/923/original/db8ee991eea352e3.png

[–] xnx@piefed.social 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Does the PWA support notifications? If not you could ask the Phanpy dev how she got them working so well on Phanpy, she's a great dev and has really good taste in terms of ui\features. Btw the option isn't appearing on ios but I know my phone can use PWA since I do for Phanpy and i did for Voyager

For anyone else interested in Lemmy API compatibility there's a Feature Request on the PieFed CodeBerg https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/13 and db0 has offered to help if he gets a PieFed API doc. (He runs the dbzer0 Lemmy instance and has made bots to prevent csam and helps with fediverse stuff so I think he would be a great contributor)

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 8 months ago

Not yet. I tried to make notifications 2 weeks ago, but it went very badly and I retreated to more productive work.

I'm not a huge fan of notifications anyway, due to their role in addicting people to their phones. We're not chasing engagement numbers, here.

Phanpy has lots of interesting ideas, thanks.