For all of you android fans and Truenas enthusiasts, this may be very useful for you. Rather than just having a web shortcut on your phone to some of your homelab apps, you can have actual apps. Only recently has Chrome on Android started to recommend I install some of these apps rather than hitting the url for them, and there is some algorithm that builds trust that decides when that prompt happens. Basically black magic. However, you can trigger it yourself.
Pick an app you access via web browser on your phone, open the site (let’s use Jellyseerr as an example) and log in, if you need to. Next, hit the 3 dot menu in Chrome and scroll down to Add To Home screen.
This is where it gets fun. For normal sites, it’ll choose to just add a web shortcut to your home screen. For apps that are coded right, you’ll get an Install choice. Once you install it, it runs like your other apps, minus your web browser. I think these are called webp apps, but whatever.
I’ve added a few apps from the *arr suite, but I’m sure there are lots more out there. Experiment, try different apps and see what happens! Pretty neat stuff.
Unfortunately, I tested adding Truenas as an app and nope, you can’t. You get a shortcut url.