when IPFS to safari, chrome and firefox mobile and webview?

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IPFS status in May 2021 : brave, opera, (chrome + firefox but with addon on desktop)

I'm wondering when ipfs will be ported to chrome and safari mobile => especially for webview

because those links, won't open in webview or chrome mobile or safari mobile...

<a href="ipfs://QmT5NvUtoM5nWFfrQdVrFtvGfKFmG7AHE8P34isapyhCxX/" />test</a>

only this will work

<a href="https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmT5NvUtoM5nWFfrQdVrFtvGfKFmG7AHE8P34isapyhCxX/wiki/Mars.html" />test</a>

is it because we would have to implement ipfs node natively in the app ?

This is probably better suited for the github repo – unbeatable101 May 20 '21 at 00:27 — unbeatable101, May 20 '21 at 00:27

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '21 at 19:23

IPFS availability in native webviews:

iOS would require operating system support
Android does allow replacing the default browser engine for webviews - so it is technically possible for native support on Android

Outside of webviews, here's a state of IPFS on mobile browsers:

Opera Android and iOS both support ipfs:// and ipns:// addresses, which directs requests to a remote IPFS gateway.
Brave Android and iOS are both in progress for similar support
No progress on Chrome, Firefox

Native IPFS nodes:

Berty has built gomobile-ipfs, a full IPFS node, tuned for mobile performance, with Kotlin and Swift bindings, which is designed for embedding into native mobile apps: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/gomobile-ipfs

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 31 '21 at 17:25

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I doubt it will ever come to iOS except as a native implementation because of the OS' locked-down nature, which means it’ll be a while as we wait for IPFS to become more mainstream.

answered May 31 '21 at 17:25

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doing some research, there is a nice alternative : https://filebase.com/ – Jintor Jun 01 '21 at 18:37

when IPFS to safari, chrome and firefox mobile and webview?

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