Has anyone ever heard of or used this webapp converter before? ( play.google.com )

It looks like a very well built app to convert web pages to lite apps. It also seems to be based on Firefox and seems to include something similar to that of Firefox Multiaccount Containers for every webapp, on top of an adblocker. Seems very neat. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about whether or not it is open source and how the privacy and security potentially is?

Edit: I am aware of Native Alpha but it is very ugly with bad interface and hasn't been updated in two years, and also doesn't really sandbox apps to my knowledge like this does.

limerod ,

I only know of hermit and native alpha. 1st time hearing about this. Compared to hermit appears to be only 2 years old vs 10 years for hermit.

There are lots of mention of Native Alpha and hermit in the description. Very strange I never found this option in the 2 years it existed on the play store. Being based on firefox sounds neat. Good for everyone who wants their user agent to be firefox everyone even in lite apps.

Would give it a shot and see what it holds. But, I don't see myself switching from hermit.

Scio , (edited )

I hear he don't run in background. Always center stage him. Super star.

"Joke" done. Have you tried Hermit, OP? It has containers too. Kinda pricey though.

otter , (edited )
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It comes on sale somewhat often, I saw a sale post the other day on Lemmy somewhere.

There's also Native Alpha on Fdroid which does something similar

edit: decided to give it a try. Interestingly, both Lemmy and Mastodon are listed in the "popular" section of the built in apps

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Scio ,

If you remember which community that was, please let me know. Still missing a replacement for r/androidappsales!

otter , (edited )
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For sure! Turns out I was subscribed to two, the later being an automated mirror of a subreddit

!playstoredeals

!googleplaydeals

There's also a community for the Hermit app it turns out !hermit. That one seems abandoned

Scio ,

Thanks a lot!

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