Hide navigation bar in standalone PWA

[provokateurin]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I use a PWA on my phone for one Nextcloud app which doesn't have a (good) native app available.
It's nice because it acts mostly like any other app, with the correct icon and so on.
Unfortunately the experience of using the PWA itself is a bit weird, because I still see the navigation bar. In a standalone PWA for a single Nextcloud app (you could have multiple PWAs for each Nextcloud app you need) I really don't need to see the navigation bar. The same goes for the account menu, but maybe in some cases there are valid reasons, e.g. if you need to go to the settings which change something for the current app.

Describe the solution you'd like
The navigation bar should be hidden either entirely or at least the entries for the other apps should not be shown, if the user accesses the app as a standalone PWA.

[szaimen]

WDYT @nextcloud/designers ?

[kowalski7cc]

Maybe on desktop could be served a manifest with minimal-ui and on mobile with standalone, or could be a customization option inside the Theming app...

[provokateurin]

^ The part in the red rectangle is what I mean with navigation bar.

[provokateurin]

Maybe on desktop could be served a manifest with minimal-ui and on mobile with standalone, or could be a customization option inside the Theming app...

I'm not sure what you mean, but currently we have a manifest/PWA for each Nextcloud app, so I think the entire concept of being able to navigate to another app is quite confusing.

We might still keep the option to have a PWA which retains the navigation functionality, so that you can use it to access any Nextcloud app.

[kowalski7cc]

Oh sorry @provokateurin , I thought you meant another navbar...
For that one a param could be added in the manifest start url (such as "?nc_nav=hidden" or "?launch=pwa") and when that is present so nextcloud can behave differently

[provokateurin]

Agreed, something that will be necessary :)

[marcoambrosini]

I would also find this valuable, but there might be other users that want the whole Nextcloud web interface in their PWA, including the ability to navigate between apps

[provokateurin]

@marcoambrosini But currently you have one PWA per Nextcloud app, so navigation in those makes no sense. Like I said above we should add another one that still has the navigation bar and can be used for all Nextcloud apps.

[marcoambrosini]

Still, people might want to be able to use one entry point only. Maybe we can leave the top bar in dashboard and remove it from other apps?

[provokateurin]

That's basically what I said.