¬ Of course you can fork it and mess around with it to make the experience better for android now too.
¬ Of course you can fork it and mess around with it to make the experience better for android now too.
The same counts for visiting the website with any other browser I have.
I can view a demo, and it looks like a nice app. But I hope you understand that 'apps' like this go against the entire idea that websites are available to anyone, on any device, which is the one thing that makes web-apps so awesome.
I beg you to reconsider. I think this is the current problem with mobile web apps today; too many are trying to feel native. Instead try to make it feel smooth and responsive, as a web app.
Generally, don't be ashamed of being a web app. Embrace the web's strengths; users will appreciate it.
I think this is exactly what OP has done. It doesn't feel "native" to iOS to me, but it does feel like a well-made little web app. I don't have an Android device to test it on, but it does seem like it would fit in just fine on one.
I know it may be 'designed' for iOS and mobile screen formats, but it seems to me a seriously bad decision not to have a 'show it to me anyway' button, along with a disclaimer that it (might) be broken on $platform...
And saying 'fork it' for an issue this trivial is not a great way to promote yourselves.
I think the main blocker with opening it up for desktop is having to design a more appropriate layout. Not impossible, just time-consuming. And as Ben says, it is intended as a tech demo.
I'm sure we could add a button to show it on devices that wouldn't experience what it was 'designed' for… but really, we open sourced it to share some of the things we learnt along the way—not pour time into testing over various fragmented devices.
I think the idea of the app is awesome, and it's good that we can read the source. It's just a bummer that I can't use it in its current state.
If this is what people would have to do, why would anyone do that over native?