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Full PWA support can't come soon enough!

bob1029 4y ago
It's basically here. We've been using it in production for our clients for almost a year now. The #1 reason we are moving away from iOS native to web app is because of Apple's policies and how convoluted the signing experience is.
- ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
  Do PWAs have access to system things like being able to do background uploads and send system notifications?
  - bob1029 4y ago
    We haven't encountered this use case yet with our product. The only thing we ask for permission to use is the camera for purposes of imaging barcodes & documents. This seems to work really well, with the only caveat being that iOS will not grant access to most (any?) privileged resources unless the site is secured with TLS.
- candiddevmike 4y ago
  Push notifications and install prompt have not landed yet/enabled by default AFAIK. Once that happens, I am seriously considering leaving the App Store. I hate the review process, I hate having to use capacitor, I hate their billing APIs, and I hate having to have a Mac build pipeline.
  - CharlesW 4y ago
    > Push notifications and install prompt have not landed yet/enabled by default AFAIK. "In Safari 16 in macOS 13 or later, Safari supports web push — push notifications that use the cross-browser Push API, Notifications API, and Service Worker standards." https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/sending_web_push_notifications_in_safari_and_other_browsers https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
dmitriid 4y ago
For some random definition of "full PWA support" which inevitably includes Chrome-only non-standards. Meanwhile Android is 70% market share worldwide with that desired "full PWA support". Where are these amazing PWAs?
- mmis1000 4y ago
  Why you ever need to if you can just ask user to install app and collect more data? Google never seems to limit the system from allowing app to extract unnecessary data from user properly.(whatever it is intended or just incompetent) There should be a option like: tell app that it can get my phonebook but don't actually give them. And give app no way to tell which option is actually selected.

It's basically here. We've been using it in production for our clients for almost a year now. The #1 reason we are moving away from iOS native to web app is because of Apple's policies and how convoluted the signing experience is.

ye-olde-sysrq 4y ago
Do PWAs have access to system things like being able to do background uploads and send system notifications?
- bob1029 4y ago
  We haven't encountered this use case yet with our product. The only thing we ask for permission to use is the camera for purposes of imaging barcodes & documents. This seems to work really well, with the only caveat being that iOS will not grant access to most (any?) privileged resources unless the site is secured with TLS.
candiddevmike 4y ago
Push notifications and install prompt have not landed yet/enabled by default AFAIK. Once that happens, I am seriously considering leaving the App Store. I hate the review process, I hate having to use capacitor, I hate their billing APIs, and I hate having to have a Mac build pipeline.
- CharlesW 4y ago
  > Push notifications and install prompt have not landed yet/enabled by default AFAIK. "In Safari 16 in macOS 13 or later, Safari supports web push — push notifications that use the cross-browser Push API, Notifications API, and Service Worker standards." https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/sending_web_push_notifications_in_safari_and_other_browsers https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...

dmitriid 4y ago

For some random definition of "full PWA support" which inevitably includes Chrome-only non-standards. Meanwhile Android is 70% market share worldwide with that desired "full PWA support". Where are these amazing PWAs?

mmis1000 4y ago
Why you ever need to if you can just ask user to install app and collect more data? Google never seems to limit the system from allowing app to extract unnecessary data from user properly.(whatever it is intended or just incompetent) There should be a option like: tell app that it can get my phonebook but don't actually give them. And give app no way to tell which option is actually selected.