• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    11 months ago

    What makes these “mobile apps”? Are they special versions optimized for phones?

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      11 months ago

      They are enabled to (also) run on phones. E.g. libadwaita makes it possible to write application which can adapt to the screen size and therefore run on big and small screens.

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          e.g. Fractal can scale down to mobile:

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            11 months ago

            Are these your screenshots? If so, what hardware and OS are you running, out of curiosity?

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              Yes, they are mine. I guess the question is targeted if they are done on a mobile device. The screenshots are done on Fedora Silverblue Gnome on a Dell XPS 13 laptop developer version (~7 years old). But I also have the Librem 5.

              You can put the newer apps in a ‘simulate phone screen’ mode (it’s still in development).

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              I know there is a lot of hate around.

              Nevertheless I find it a good example, because I think they have implemented the adaptivity between big and small screen sizes very well.