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Just looking through the apps I currently have open… Bank app, chat app, maps, Tile, YouTube and a weather app. Only one of them is actually doing anything that
by lrem 3y ago
Just looking through the apps I currently have open… Bank app, chat app, maps, Tile, YouTube and a weather app. Only one of them is actually doing anything that wouldn’t fit a PWA. So why are they apps, not a collection of links?
- IshKebab 3y agoI would say only the weather and bank apps would be really equal as a PWA. Maps require complex gestures and advanced graphics and UIs that would never work well as a PWA. Try maps.google.com. Its nothing like the Google Maps app. Plus Android Auto integration. Tile probably needs pretty deep Bluetooth integration and background processing that the web doesn't provide. YouTube can do things like PiP that you can't do on the web.
- spion 3y agoPiP, the one feature of youtube that I did not want (in the majority of cases) but got anyway. edit: Sorry for the snark. I think that maps are probably doable with pointer events (https://caniuse.com/?search=pointer https://caniuse.com/?search=pointer) and Android is doing pretty well in terms of Web Bluetooth https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/web-bluetooth/blob/main/implementation-status.md#chrome https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/web-bluetooth/blob/main/im...
- mk12345 3y agoGood points. Additionally, PiP is also possible in most browsers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Picture-in-Picture_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Picture-in-...
- c-hendricks 3y agoI use YouTube in a browser on my phone specifically because it has PiP without having to pay Google monthly for the privilege. If I request the Desktop version of YouTube, where Google doesn't hide their own Mini player button, the video continues to play in the corner. Mapbox.js is also pretty capable. Not really sure what you're on about TBH.