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Well if Safari wouldn't intentionally suck, more people would choose to use Progressive WebApps instead of going through all the hassle of creating a dedicated
by albert180 3y ago
Well if Safari wouldn't intentionally suck, more people would choose to use Progressive WebApps instead of going through all the hassle of creating a dedicated iOS App
- scarface_74 3y agoYou mean like all of the people who choose to use PWAs for Android? I’ve never once heard anyone say “you know Electron is such a great experience on the desktop, I would love to have all my mobile apps to be web based too”.
- albert180 3y agoApp Development for Android is much easier. No Bullshit recurring Fees, no need to buy specific Google Hardware etc...
- scarface_74 3y agoHow many different Android devices does a serious developer need to buy to ensure their app works well across the spectrum from the top end Android phones to the sub $100 Blu R1 phones? How many different versions of the operating system do they need to support because of how soon Android phones are abandoned by the manufacturers? But this still doesn’t answer the question, if PWAs are so great on Android, then why are the same companies who are making iOS apps making Android apps instead of just telling Android users to use the web version?
- albert180 3y agoNone, there is a decent emulator included with Android Studio
- scarface_74 3y agoAnd you think the emulator actually takes the place of real live hardware, the quirks , the performance, etc?
- johnnyanmac 3y agodepends on the complexity of the app. An app that can reasonably be a PWA (e.g. it is more or less a webpage wrapped in an APK) can probably be tested well enough on a dozen emulator pofiles and a few physical devices you have lying around.
- scarface_74 3y agoAnd those are the very apps that are going to run worse on low end devices with poor rendering performance…
- alphabettsy 3y agoCan guarantee you’ve never shipped an Android app at any notable scale. You need many more devices to validate Android apps.
- paulddraper 3y agoYou need only one, to run the emulator.
- threeseed 3y agoProgressive Web Apps have been around for nearly a decade. Every year there is some excuse (usually missing API X) why they aren't a success.
- blueelephanttea 3y agoAlso I have been testing out PWAs in various different browsers (non-Safari) this last month and...ahem...I have been unimpressed. I also think ad tech companies will prefer native apps for major markets (iOS) because it is tougher to block ads. PWAs tend not to support content blockers at the moment, but there certainly can.
- Terretta 3y agoI do Xbox Cloud Gaming in a PWA on iPad with my Xbox controller. What does your app do that's so special it needs more than a console game?