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Android and iOS have different landing pages and allows "Continue in your browser" for iOS
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Description
*Spawned from https://twitter.com/ChevyRay/status/1512211448277078019 ([more nuggets deeper in thread](https://twitter.com/ChevyRay/status/1512232652845174785))*
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Android and iOS have different landing pages and allows "Continue in your browser" for iOS.
You can test with just the device emulation mode in desktop Chrome to change the user-agent.
https://matrix.to/#/#Wgpu:matrix.org
Android | iOS
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On iOS, you can even "Continue in your browser" which isn't really supported in Element web. Mobile web is still listed as experimental and there are lots of bugs, https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/1633. While I love mobile web over apps any time when I just want to check something out, this can lead to bad experiences like https://twitter.com/ChevyRay/status/1512211448277078019
## Potential solutions
Show the iOS app icons like we do for Android. This appears to be a thing as pictured in https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.to/issues/255
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Use Chrome device emulation to compare the Android and iOS landing pages and trace the user-agent-based landing-page entry point in the repository. Check the existing Android app-icon behavior and the example in issue #255, then verify that iOS shows app icons instead of offering the unsupported “Continue in your browser” path.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100