LinusTechTips Forums As An App

[ShayMaster [PC Noob]]

The makers of LinusTechTips should make it an app if they can, it'd be much better than a website in my opinion. What do you guys think?

[PokeCatz]

1 minute ago, ShayMaster [PC Noob] said:

The makers of LinusTechTips should make it an app if they can, it'd be much better than a website in my opinion. What do you guys think?

You Should

[Arty]

The Mobile Site Works fine, an App is just redundant. 

[ChrisCross]

Just now, ShayMaster [PC Noob] said:

The makers of LinusTechTips should make it an app if they can, it'd be much better than a website in my opinion. What do you guys think?

we had the discussion in the past. its too expensive

[ChrisCross]

Just now, Arty said:

The Mobile Site Works fine, an App is just redundant. 

i mean it would be nice because its faster and uses less mobile data but its not going to happen soon.

[mikat]

we've discussed this many times before, and the outcome has always been: an app costs alot of money, the web client works just fine.

[kameshss]

Super unnecessary imo. The mobile site is flawless if you ask me.

[colonel_mortis]

Moved to Feature Suggestions.

 

What specifically about a mobile app do you prefer? Just using the mobile version of the site works fairly well, and it doesn't involve the large cost that would be involved with making a mobile app.

[PokeCatz]

Remember when they had like linustechtips.com 2.0 My iPhone 4 gave up and died from there. The site is  on the iPhone 4, but for a phone with an 800MHz single core processor, it does well.

[Sauron]

There was one some time ago (unofficial I believe) but honestly I don't see the point in a full blown app.

3 hours ago, colonel_mortis said:

Moved to Feature Suggestions.

 

What specifically about a mobile app do you prefer? Just using the mobile version of the site works fairly well, and it doesn't involve the large cost that would be involved with making a mobile app.

One nice thing might be getting notifications directly without accessing the site, maybe a widget or something.

[Scruffy90]

After the overhaul a few months ago, the mobile website is lovely. The old LTT site was a pain in the ass to use on mobile.

[LogicalDrm]

6 hours ago, ChrisCross said:

i mean it would be nice because its faster and uses less mobile data but its not going to happen soon.

Where do you place this claim? If it reads same data with site, how much faster or less data consuming it can be?

[ChrisCross]

4 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Where do you place this claim? If it reads same data with site, how much faster or less data consuming it can be?

a mobile app has all the logos and and core architecture of the forum already in place. the browser reloads all the logos and bottons every time. the only thing the app needs is the profile pictures and the text. its also way better optimized than the browser.

if you used tapatalk when it was possible you know the difference. 

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, ChrisCross said:

a mobile app has all the logos and and core architecture of the forum already in place. the browser reloads all the logos and bottons every time. the only thing the app needs is the profile pictures and the text. its also way better optimized than the browser.

if you used tapatalk when it was possible you know the difference. 

I tested TapaTalk one point before upgrade. Didn't really noticed anything different. It may be better for slower speeds. But I'm not too sure about logos being issue. Rather I'd say profile pics and other embedded media is the part causing slow loading and more data being used.

[ChrisCross]

1 minute ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

I tested TapaTalk one point before upgrade. Didn't really noticed anything different. It may be better for slower speeds. But I'm not too sure about logos being issue. Rather I'd say profile pics and other embedded media is the part causing slow loading and more data being used.

yeah im on h and h+.  i noticed it quite a bit. and notifications would be nice but they are working on that

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

I'd prefer the old LTT on mobile. The quotes are always fucked up in the new one. 

[EmeraldFlame]

21 hours ago, Sauron said:

One nice thing might be getting notifications directly without accessing the site, maybe a widget or something.

This is actually technically possible now. At least on the android with chrome. Unsure about the iOS version. There has been the option to receive push notifications from websites for quite some time now actually. Not to many sites other than facebook support it as far as I know.

[Festive]

13 hours ago, Pohernori said:

I'd prefer the old LTT on mobile. The quotes are always fucked up in the new one. 

Agreed.

[LogicalDrm]

9 hours ago, EmeraldFlame said:

This is actually technically possible now. At least on the android with chrome. Unsure about the iOS version. There has been the option to receive push notifications from websites for quite some time now actually. Not to many sites other than facebook support it as far as I know.

Without need to have browser running on background? I know Firefox can do it when running on background.

[colonel_mortis]

3 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Without need to have browser running on background? I know Firefox can do it when running on background.

Mobile Chrome and alpha versions of Mobile Firefox will work even if the site is not loaded in the browser, and the browser is not running at all, but it requires quite a lot of work to make it work (I am looking into it).

[Blade of Grass]

On May 6, 2016 at 2:16 AM, ChrisCross said:

a mobile app has all the logos and and core architecture of the forum already in place. the browser reloads all the logos and bottons every time. the only thing the app needs is the profile pictures and the text. its also way better optimized than the browser.

if you used tapatalk when it was possible you know the difference. 

All logos and CSS will be cached by the browser and will only be loaded if the cache is invalid. 

The app web connectors are essentially the exact same as the browser's, there should be little to no performance difference between the two. 

[ChrisCross]

12 minutes ago, Blade of Grass said:

 

but there was a noticeable difference between tapatalk and the website. at least on the snapdragon 801.

[annoyingmoments]

I once tried a little bit of programming for Android, nothing professional, just for fun. While I made some research, there was an easy tutorial for using WebView to mimick a mobile website as an app. Sure it is a very slow and cheap solution but it worked.

 

As others stated the mobile version of LTT is just fine with Firefox or Chrome. Especially because you can add shortcuts to your homescreen. What I would suggest, please refer to my screenshot, to add an LTT icon. Note that all shortcuts in the first two lines in the screenshot are Chrome/Chromium Links to the mobile websites. Arstechnica has it and the four German websites in the first line too. The "L" is LTT whereas The Verge is the "T".

 

I guess it is just a larger favicon for exactly these use case scenarios. So maybe the LTT orange L in the black square?

[Enviousx]

I'm sure there was an unofficial app somewhere?

 

Also, there's tapatalk for Android (Not sure if it's on IOS...)

[Mr.Meerkat]

On 5/6/2016 at 8:56 AM, Pohernori said:

I'd prefer the old LTT on mobile. The quotes are always fucked up in the new one. 

Well it's kinda fucked up on the actual site so...(I know you posted that 10 days ago so blame @Blade of Grass for replying to this thread...jokes, pls don't hurt me ).