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The point of apps is also to deliver a decent user experience that web pages just can't deliver.

• pjmlp 7y ago
  PWAs and mobile web can deliver a decent user experience, if the developers actually bother delivering it.
  • anoncake 7y ago
    No, not at all. A decent user experience requires using the native toolkit and behaving like an actual app, not appearing in the browser. Everything else is garbage.
    • giorgioz 7y ago
      It's literally not true. Material Design for Android is just a design guideline about how the UI widgets are shaped. You can easily implement it in html/css/javascript for the browser. The official Material Design docs refer to 4 platforms currently: Android, iOS, Web and Flutter. https://material.io/components/app-bars-top/# https://material.io/components/app-bars-top/#
      • kuschku 7y ago
        How do you implement the adaptive shadows, which change shape depending on where on the page they are? How do you implement diagonal corners on elements? You can implement some of Material on the web, but not all of it - which is why many components and styles are missing