I've just bought a new Motorola phone with a bigger screen, but I'm not very tech savvy with phones & I did only phone calls, texts, camera & satnav on my previous phone (iPhone 7).
Is there a PP phone app (I seem to remember seeing it mentioned somewhere in the past, but I've forgotten where.)
If someone can point me at an article on installing it, I'd be grateful.
Tim
"Add to home screen" probably works, might go full screen and get rid of some of the browser controls and whatnot.
There isnt an app but the layout is mobile phone friendly I would say. I’m messaging here now on my phone.
Thanks everyone. I visited with chrome, logged in, & enabled my NSFW images. I'll see if I can pin PP permanently on my home screen.
Huw Ditto, although I sometimes have to switch between mobile and desktop modes.
It's been discussed many times and the reply has always been the same No there isn't one and are no plans to develop one
Ian
No App - whats the point. What can you do in an app that you can't do on the web site ?
It seems Tim Berners-Lee wasted all his time developing the World-Wide-Web, one of the principle objectives of which was to provide a platform that all developers could use without the need to have a seperate 'app' for everything.
NehmeZ said
I am certain Purple Port are losing a lot of user engagement by not having an app, and would like to see the percentage of users using a browser on a PC vs a mobile phone.
I know Russ has this figure readily available. From memory, the last figure he gave was something in the 50% to 60% range.
NehmeZ said
What you can do in an app:
- Offline access
- Push notifications
- Direct messaging with notifications
- Better UI/UX experience
- Advanced control and functionality like
- Offline access (again)
- Device integration like gps, camera
- Location
- Security
- Advanced features for image display and editing
(Numbered the list for easier reference by anyone else)
It's good to see someone actually list tangible benefits that a mobile app could bring. The primary downside has been given several times in the past (cost of development, cost of maintenance, across multiple platforms, and ensuring all new features get added in all places) and will almost certainly still outweigh these, but it's good to see them.
2. I've noted the push notifications before, and while there's apparently some way to make a web browser do it it's never been made easy. PP relies mostly on email notifications.
3. Again, email notifications are relied on for this. However, direct messaging on other apps (WhatsApp, Instagram, etc) is more immediate, and also allows for pictures to be shared really easily - the process for taking a photo, uploading it, getting the address where you've uploaded it, then sending it to another person on a mobile isn't simple on PP, and if it isn't simple then people will reach for a method which is.
4. I'm open to persuasion, but define "better" here.
5. What sort of advanced control?
The only ones you've omitted that I've ever thought of are
11. The full-screen view of landscape images, which is less than great (I raised that a couple of years ago here)
12. The rich text formatting is available on a desktop, and in a few places on a mobile, but needs to be rolled out across the board.
Even with that list, though, I think the best we'd ever realistically be able to hope for would be an app that sat beside the web site and worked in tandem with it.
