Just built it from source while waiting for Google to approve the app, and it's great. I had to use Firefox for the PWA because I need links to open in firefox when I click on them, but Firefox doesn't handle PWAs vey well. The native app fixes all these problems. Excited for it to be on the Google Play Store!
Also aeharding@lemmy.world will you upload the android app to F-droid? It would be nice to have it there rather than having to install it from the play store.
Does it feel smoother than the PWA?
Definitely, or at least the firefox one
Oh yeah, I have heard Voyager never was good on Firefox, so it is safe to assume you have a better performance with the APK.
I guess only because the native app uses the inbuilt Chromium based rendering engine
Torn about whether to keep using Firefox to support its market share
As a browser it works well on my s9. Honestly the only time I use chrome now on android, it's when I use the voyager app. I even replaced the google search bar on my homescreen by the firefox one.