I came across Hermit (proprietary app, see on Google Play Store), which is an app that allows you to create so called containers for individual websites, that means you will be able to open them from the launcher, the session is not shared between websites and you can basically use them like any native app. The appeal of not having to install a separate app for various news and social media websites is definitely there, from both a convenience and privacy and security point of view.
Now you may ask, why not just use Vanadium for this job? I see a couple of reasons:
- It is annoying to have all sorts of browser tabs mixed up in one place, I do not want to have shopping sites, job related things and forums I browse all in one place that I have to scroll through to find what the tab I'm looking for
- Possibly privacy: I do not want to save any cross site tracking cookies and stuff like that, but incognito mode is not practical when wanting to stay logged in for longer times. I don't know how much of an issue this is as I have only little understanding of how web trackers work
I do not want to use Hermit or the FOSS alternative "Native Alpha" either, because of obvious security implications that might be introduced by using some different and possibly outdated browser in addition to the fact that Hermit is proprietary and Native Alpha works terribly.
Do you have any idea how a similar thing could be implemented using Vanadium, something like creating home screen icons for various websites that get launched in webview, do not get closed when in background and ideally don't share cookies and history with the main instance of vanadium?
Maybe something like this could be hacked together quite quickly since I heard that many modern apps are just relying on websites anyways, but I thought I should ask here for ideas and experiences before setting up Android Studio and trying some stuff.