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VARSITY v1.1.0: mobile (PWA install + native Android APK)

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@StephenSook StephenSook released this 23 Jun 23:30

VARSITY's installable PWA is now a first-class phone experience, plus a native Android distribution. No native rebuild: the same frozen, screen-reader-native web front end, on a phone.

Install the PWA (recommended, iPhone + Android)

  • iPhone: open https://web-chi-wine-13.vercel.app in Safari, then Share -> Add to Home Screen. Launches standalone, like a native app.
  • Android: open the same link in Chrome, then Install app.
  • On the phone: VoiceOver / TalkBack speak the verdict through the aria-live region, the offside margin fires a haptic buzz (the Vibration API), and airplane mode runs Granite Nano on the phone's own WebGPU (with a deterministic Law-citing fallback on devices without WebGPU).

Native Android app (sideload)
varsity-debug.apk below wraps the exact same built web app with Capacitor. On Android: allow "install unknown apps" for your browser or files app, then open the .apk. The shell adds no capability over the PWA; it is a native distribution of the identical front end. Built in CI (.github/workflows/android.yml, gradlew assembleDebug). This is a debug-signed APK for sideload and evaluation, not a Play Store build.

iOS is served by the PWA above, not a separate native build.