forum into android app?

dunlix

Hello. Is there any way to make a nodebb forum into an actual android apk? I know there was a webview app a while back but i'm pretty sure its quite outdated.
Is there a way?
Thank you in advance

psychobunny

I don't know of any instance in the wild, but it's certainly doable and I think utilizing webview is still the way to go for that approach. It shouldn't be hard to do but the gold star comes with stuff like notification support, etc.

My opinion is that there's no great reason to do it unless you're whitelabelling your forum inside a larger app; definitely open to exploring if a client wants us to do it but so far they've been happy with using nbb on the web as so, and I imagine that will be the case going forward once we add more PWA functionality ()

phenomlab

@psychobunny the PWA app side of things works fine for me, but I can't seem to find a way to get push notifications working. Is this expected ? From the lists I've read, it is.

dunlix

@phenomlab yes is there a way to get mobile notifications? @psychobunny

julian

@phenomlab @dunlix through PWA, I believe that is not available yet.

Your options at the moment are the desktop notifications plugin, or the firebase plugin, which is a premium plugin from NodeBB.

(N.B. the firebase plugin doesn't work to send push notifications to iOS devices)

ufan0

GitHub - ReyKoxha/nodebb-webview: NodeBB WebView for Android

NodeBB WebView for Android. Contribute to ReyKoxha/nodebb-webview development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub (github.com)

It hasn't update for a long time.

I made some adjustments to make it support higher Android versions, But no features.

GitHub - AllinProgram/nodebb-webview: NodeBB WebView for Android

NodeBB WebView for Android. Contribute to AllinProgram/nodebb-webview development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub (github.com)