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in-app browsers are a much better UX imo, solution is to make them safe, not get rid of them, as they solve a real ux use case
by makoto12 4y ago
in-app browsers are a much better UX imo, solution is to make them safe, not get rid of them, as they solve a real ux use case
- xigoi 4y agoAndroid has “Chrome custom tabs” (terrible name, they don't have to be Chrome) which behave like an in-app browser, but use an actual browser. I assume the app can't spy on those?
- kevincox 4y agoHow is the UX better? It is just a browser window with half of the features. I turn it off in every app I can and miss the old version of Firefox that had the option to disable them altogether.
- makoto12 4y agoit's not the browser itself, it's the experience of staying in app when clicking a link. for example when going through a paygate that redirects to a browser. i don't want to leave the app, then come back in manually. with an in app browser it works seamlessly.
- kevincox 4y agoWhat does "in app" do differently? On Android the only thing I can think of that is different is that if I open the app switcher the tab is in a different app. But I think I prefer that because if I click around a bit I can switch back to the app that spawned the tab directly instead if hitting back a load of times.
- makoto12 4y agowhen in-app and i close the browser i'm back in the app. this isn't the case if i'm redirected to a different browser application. That's quite a big deal