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It's really great to see that Android (and Firefox OS obviously) is going this way. Maybe soon we can forget the native apps (that remind me of the multimedia C
by jarnix 11y ago
It's really great to see that Android (and Firefox OS obviously) is going this way. Maybe soon we can forget the native apps (that remind me of the multimedia CD ROM era from 1995) for a lot of apps that do not need access to the system's API.
- pikzen 11y agoLet's get web apps' APIs up to par with native APIs first, then maybe we can talk. Oh, and let's get it up to par performance wise. Because right now, in both those categories, web apps are terrible. Until then, I'll keep my native apps thank you very much. (And I didn't even start on Javascript, because you can transpile. But the itch is present :^))
- ashark 11y agoEspecially stop Web/JS stuff from chewing through battery and shoving everything else on the device out of RAM. If you expect users to be in your "app" more than a couple minutes a day (and it is in fact an app, and not just information presentation), please use native.
- Joeri 11y agoThe problem of web apps on mobile is not that they don't work offline. They've worked offline for years with appcache. The problem is three-fold: (1) performance is bad and not improving, especially (and paradoxically) on android, (2) lack of native controls produces an inferior ux and (3) you can't store more than 50 mb of data on iOS. I was gung-ho on the mobile web as app platform and was sure that it would beat out native on mobile as it did on the desktop, but the situation is different. Web apps have a worse install experience on mobile, taking away much of the reason to build for the web, and because there can't be competing browsers there is no competition between browser makers to improve the mobile web, keeping it in a pretty lousy place.