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Whats the endgame with PWAs in terms of capabilities? Are proponents pushing for every native API to be available? There are some fundemental differences in how
by jamil7 6y ago
Whats the endgame with PWAs in terms of capabilities? Are proponents pushing for every native API to be available? There are some fundemental differences in how things like navigation stacks work on Android vs iOS and a whole host of platform specific features and APIs on each platform that don't match up 1 to 1. Especially with regard to gestures, UI and accessibility. Maybe I'm asking the wrong questions here and the sweet spot for PWAs is covering the space that things like React Native and Flutter currently occupy rather than trying to "fit in" perfectly with the platform.
- theklr 6y agoReduce the overhead and need of making a native app as hype. There’s a lot of apps that are just glorified websites, and while fine, is an added cost on what could be wasteful effort to get no use. PWAs can be great bridge apps where you can test the need of a native experience without needing any of the internal tools. I see it as what can become an improvement for apps as they have the same ability to access the hardware for 80% of app’s use cases.