> As a general remark, I get confused and maybe even a little irritated when people conflate Android & iOS with macOS/linux/windows. Android and iOS represent

> As a general remark, I get confused and maybe even a little irritated when people conflate Android & iOS with macOS/linux/windows. Android and iOS represent the majority of devices your software can be run on. They are ubiquitous, and also very dependent on a native UI frameworks that are a somewhat better developer experience than their desktop counterparts, but only because the years of accumulated cruft are less. Incidentally, Android actually does have a desktop mode for it's GUI. That said, users rarely use the desktop Android GUI. > You can sort of kind of pull this off with a relatively limited web app I've had better luck with electron and PWAs on the desktop than non-native mobile tooling. This is largely because non-native mobile frameworks often don't have access to the same libraries - or the abstraction layer loses fidelity in trying to be cross platform. There's really no QT grade multiplatform tooling on mobile. There's some promising starts. > I think it's extremely hard to design the GUI in a way that can work on both mobile and desktop platforms It's hard to get a decent GUI on both Android and iOS that doesn't have a lot of rough edges with cross platform frameworks. They are coming along, but it's still just not quite there yet.