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Push notifications alone are enough to force most apps to be native. But a lot of the other stuff missing is what keeps the experience from being quite as polis
by boucher 4y ago
Push notifications alone are enough to force most apps to be native. But a lot of the other stuff missing is what keeps the experience from being quite as polished as a native app.
- acdha 4y agoIt might be interesting to go through the apps you have installed and see how many don’t work as web apps. For me it’s about 10%, basically Signal and apps which use Bluetooth to configure things and which I use almost never.
- dmitriid 4y ago> the other stuff missing is what keeps the experience from being quite as polished as a native app. Features HN developers think are missing from the web to deliver an experience "as polished as a native app": notifications, prompt banners, link interception, Chrome-only non-standards like bluetooth etc. Features actual users think are missing from the web to deliver an experience "as polished as a native app": actual native-like experience: responsiveness, smooth animations, polished usable and accesible controls, maintaining scroll position and location in the app, fast scrolling through large lists, no loading states for the simplest actions... I mean, people people keep bringing up Twitter's objectively bad web app as an example of one of the best PWA apps... Have these people never seen an actual native app?