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[–] Skyline@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Does anyone know an example of an instant app? I’d like to see what this is before it gets shut down.

I remember Clash Royale had one where they let you play the tutorial to basically try the game without installing anything.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just tried a bunch of apps that I swear used to have it, it all of them just say "Open in the real app" now. I wonder if low usage here also means developers stopped using them.

Basically what would happen is you'd click a link to Instagram, and instead of opening a web page, it would open the Instagram "app" instantly. If you then tried to do anything more advanced in the app (advanced decided by the developer) it would prompt you to install the app.

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I remembered CBC News also had an instant app exactly like you described at one point.

[–] TheDuffmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I believe vimeo used it when you tried to watch a video on their site, it worked well.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 3 points 1 day ago

I remember some video service using it, Vine I think? Also remember some news sites supporting it but its been far too long since I used chrome lol