Can't try this on Android. Wtf.
They want you to buy an iPhone to try it.
Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
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Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
#12It's restricted to Safari on the iPhone, the language cannot be changed, the demo cannot launch, and I have an iPhone for a reason, I know that I don't like Android and Samsung. The fact that it's broken confirms it. I don't know what they are trying to do with this.
Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
#13Get rid of the "you are already on Android" message.
Try it on a Samsung!
Then it'll say you're already on Samsung..
(I'd like to see that it looks like too.)
Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
#14This is surprisingly detailed! I didn't expect there to be such nice animations and for there to be an emoji panel in the messaging app. It's interesting that they're using Safari's “add to Home Screen” feature so they can use fullscreen. I think that might be why that's the only browser which is supported.
It works on desktop Chrome if you emulate a iPhone display and user agent. They're just detecting "add to Home Screen" by looking for window.navigator.standalone which you can manually set using a breakpoint.
can you explain more about manually setting a breakpoint. I am little noob
Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
#15It's restricted to Safari on the iPhone, the language cannot be changed, the demo cannot launch, and I have an iPhone for a reason, I know that I don't like Android and Samsung. The fact that it's broken confirms it. I don't know what they are trying to do with this.
A webapp being broken on an iPhone is proof that android sucks?
Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
#16It's restricted to Safari on the iPhone, the language cannot be changed, the demo cannot launch, and I have an iPhone for a reason, I know that I don't like Android and Samsung. The fact that it's broken confirms it. I don't know what they are trying to do with this.
A webapp being broken on an iPhone is proof that android sucks?
A company launching something broken is proof of their poor quality control.
Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
#17This is surprisingly detailed! I didn't expect there to be such nice animations and for there to be an emoji panel in the messaging app. It's interesting that they're using Safari's “add to Home Screen” feature so they can use fullscreen. I think that might be why that's the only browser which is supported.
It works on desktop Chrome if you emulate a iPhone display and user agent. They're just detecting "add to Home Screen" by looking for window.navigator.standalone which you can manually set using a breakpoint.
That explains why I couldn't get it to work on my Android phone despite spoofing the user agent.
Kind of annoying, I was wondering what Samsungs's phone UI looks like these days but I guess they don't want my money. Samsung's marketing department can be weird like that for no well explained reason.
Edit: found out that Kiwi browser allows access to the Chrome extension store and to the Chrome dev tools so I got it to work despite all of Samsung's best efforts.
Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
#18I’m not switching but this is a good demo approach. And if it gets better over time might seem ironic to early iPhone owners who were told that web apps would suffice… you can accomplish a lot with SPA / PWA.
It also makes me wonder if an Android “container” could run as an app on an iPhone. Maybe sideloading leads to that?
Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
#19Wow, they even managed to simulate the choppy animations!
IME Android phones tend to feel smoother nowadays thanks to 120hz displays becoming widespread even in the midrange. Apple has 120hz on their Pro models but if you drop just one notch down from that $1000+ flagship then you're immediately back at 60hz.
60 vs 120 hz doesn’t explain animations without v-sync.
Re: Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone
#20It's restricted to Safari on the iPhone, the language cannot be changed, the demo cannot launch, and I have an iPhone for a reason, I know that I don't like Android and Samsung. The fact that it's broken confirms it. I don't know what they are trying to do with this.
will only launch if you add it to the home screen.