Mobile App for Flarum

tarun

Considering how responsive the site already is, and the buttery smooth transitions/menus etc on mobile, is there a way in which we can create a mobile app out that just wraps the responsive UI?

I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction for this.

User24

tarun ever tried it😄 ?

christicehurst

Why would you need a mobile app?

tarun

christicehurst It's mostly for push notifications to notify users about threads they are watching.

thecodingwizard

tarun .....

You could try Ionic or cordova, but you will have to do a lot of debugging to get it to work.

tarun

Thanks for the pointers thecodingwizard. I tried out ionic and was able to embed the demo site and serve it using ionic's built in server.. it looks promising!

I'm stuck on a weird bug where I'm not able to scroll the embedded site's content inside the app. Trying to figure this out at the moment.

tarun

Hey thecodingwizard, how did you link Ionic and Cordova in your comment?

Cheun

thecodingwizard I was actually looking into Ionic a few weeks ago

Wombat

I'm totally lost what the heck do u mean by Mobile App? If the site so great on mobile already, I'm confused.

tarun

Wombat While it looks and works great on mobile, push notifications to get users back to the site is something I want to figure out, especially if its regarding threads they are following.

Afaik, the only way to do push notifications is to have an app on Apple's app store (not sure about Play Store policies) or use intermediary services like boxcar/pushover.

thecodingwizard

tarun Markdown syntax for links: [ LINK LABEL ] ( LINK URL ) except no spaces, so something like
[Ionic](http://www.ionicframework.com and then the closing parenthesis.

tarun

thecodingwizard Thanks!

Felli

tarun Images is basically the same thing just adding a ! at the beginning. lol

tarun

Felli haha thanks for that! 🙂

tarun

Cheun what did you find?

Franz

brainscript That, and browser-based push notifications will make an app more or less pointless. 🙂

tarun

Franz This is awesome! Any similar solution for iOS?

williamukoh

Franz So when do you hope to get browser-based push notifications implemented?

User39

Franz You could do this for Safari on desktop... that'd be a good use of them. I'm not sure if works without each website having their own developer account setup. But nonetheless, I'd setup one if it meant I could have this work.

Franz

williamukoh Not sure, to be honest. It's not super high on my priority list right now 😉

huobazi

hybird app +1

viet

Just a quick question, would browser based notification be the same as iOS notification? (When users don't have the web page loaded in iOS Safari, would it still bring notification to their phones?)

Franz

viet Not sure whether this would already work on iOS, but that's definitely how it works with Chrome on Android, yes.