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Disclosure: I operate a similar but commercial service at https://webtoapp.design https://webtoapp.design Whether your webview app will get published in the ap
by Aulig 5y ago
Disclosure: I operate a similar but commercial service at https://webtoapp.design https://webtoapp.design
Whether your webview app will get published in the app store depends on how "app-like" your PWA looks and if you get a strict app reviewer.
I instead add native components to the apps I create to make sure they look more like an app, which works well to get the app approved by Apple.
From my experience, push notifications are a very important feature too, almost all of my customers want that. I haven't found a way to reroute browser notifications to the app, so instead I use firebase to let my customers send notifications.
- sebslomski 5y agoLooks really interesting. Well built website with very well working CTA!
- Aulig 5y agoThank you, I appreciate the feedback!
- judah 5y agoI wasn't familiar with your site. Looks really cool, and you support some platforms we don't. Best of luck to your project! Seems Firebase is the way a lot of folks are achieving Push Notifications on iOS.
- Aulig 5y agoThanks! Yea, Firebase is pretty nice because you can use it on both Android and iOS and it's free :)
- dorianmariefr 5y agoOpenSignal is free too and works really well
- icelancer 5y agoVery interesting - my co-worker reached out to you to see if one of our sites would work. It's a collection of analysis tools written in JS meant for the desktop web, but we can reconfigure it to work better with responsive viewports. Would really like to get something like this as a proof of concept for our clients who just love mobile.
- Aulig 5y agoIt's important that the websites are responsive so they look good on smaller screens, yes. I'll get back to your co-worker shortly with a more detailed response tailored to your website!
- littlecranky67 5y ago> From my experience, push notifications are a very important feature too, almost all of my customers want that I agree, but I also think that most of your customers don't want useless marketing/advertising push-notifications from your App. Based on my experiences, almost all larger 3rd party app makers will abuse push notifications for this at some point. An example would be Tinder, which sends you a notification like "There is someone new who likes you" and if you then check you learn that you can't actually do anything with that information, because that feature is only available to paying customers (but you will get the notification if you are a free user anyways). This is a clear sales/marketing dark pattern that users usually don't want.
- Aulig 5y agoI agree, nobody likes fake or useless notifications. But luckily these days Android and iOS offer end-users the option to disable notifications. It's not a perfect solution though of course as you might not want to block all notifications from the app. From what I'm seeing my customers treat push notifications very responsibly and their app users love the feature :)
- littlecranky67 5y agoAFAIK iOS does not have notification categories, you can only configure notifications as a whole per app, but not on category level. And I distinctly remember having turned off all notifications in their settings in an App for an Android, yet still received some.
- Aulig 5y agoI think so too - notification categories are Android exclusive. I like that feature a lot, but it also depends a bit on the app developers that they use it correctly and don't just have 1 category for all notifications. Receiving notifications while having them disabled is weird - I haven't had that happen to me yet luckily.