I've always liked web apps for their portability and no need to maintain different apps for different changing platforms, but one downside is no push notifications. Still for governments and NGOs who need to provide a service with the lowest possible complexity they have a place.
Web apps have long played second-fiddle to native ones. While mobile apps benefit from full access to device APIs, snappy performance and support for features such as offline content and push notifications, the stateless and browser sandboxed nature of the web has frequently relegated web-based apps to second choice.
However, in recent years we’ve seen the tide start to turn, particularly with the growth in popularity of client-side rendering and the increased OS-level support for native only features such as background fetching. This new breed of website is frequently termed a ‘PWA’ (progressive web app), but what does that actually mean?
More at www.browserlondon.com/blog/201…
#webapps #mobile
source https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-805c-b77c-7ba2-f54219135655
Web apps have long played second-fiddle to native ones. While mobile apps benefit from full access to device APIs, snappy performance and support for features such as offline content and push notifications, the stateless and browser sandboxed nature of the web has frequently relegated web-based apps to second choice.
However, in recent years we’ve seen the tide start to turn, particularly with the growth in popularity of client-side rendering and the increased OS-level support for native only features such as background fetching. This new breed of website is frequently termed a ‘PWA’ (progressive web app), but what does that actually mean?
More at www.browserlondon.com/blog/201…
#webapps #mobile
source https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-805c-b77c-7ba2-f54219135655
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