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The fact that an app is in the store doesn't mean that uses platform appropriate controls. In fact a lot of applications nowadays are just web app packaged with
by alerighi 3y ago
The fact that an app is in the store doesn't mean that uses platform appropriate controls. In fact a lot of applications nowadays are just web app packaged with tools like Ionic, or cross platform applications built with React Native or Flutter that doesn't use "platform-appropriate controls".
If most applications are embedding a web browser, or at least part of a web browser (in case of RN), why not just have applications that... run in a browser? No need to install them, no need to update them, I can just open an URL and they work.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoReact Native renders down to native iOS component classes, though: there are definitely too many generic UIViews for my taste, but it’s pretty different from electron that just constructs UIs from divs like a web app.
- kgdiem 3y ago> No need to install them, no need to update them, I can just open an URL and they work. The App Store is a useful distribution mechanism. For better or worse more people seem to be willing to buy an app, search in the App Store, etc. There have been threads on HN about a discoverability problem for on the web, not that it doesn’t exist for apps too. I made a one time use website and my only feedback from normal people was that it should be an app…