News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Treble: A modular base for Android. Parent comment

Re:Treble: A modular base for Android by pjmlp on Saturday May 13, 2017 @03:07PM (#14332463)
It also does AOT compilation with PGO gathered from the JIT.

Unless the browsers offer APIs at the same feature level as native OS APIs, web applications will always be a second class experience.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Treble: A modular base for Android by CyberDildonics on Monday May 15, 2017 @08:51AM (#14341135)
Only for apps that need those native features.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Treble: A modular base for Android by chiefalchemist on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @07:16AM (#14348726)
For example? As in, what doesn't Phone Gap offer access to?

But in any case, to your point, native apps should be limited to special cases (that can't be done via the browser). That's not the case ATM.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Treble: A modular base for Android by pjmlp on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:34AM (#14341402)
Which means any app that respects its users by providing a suitable UI/UX using the best features of the OS running on the device they paid for.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Treble: A modular base for Android by CyberDildonics on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @09:09AM (#14349231)
What does that even mean? Lots of apps don't need anything that isn't already exposed in newer web apis.
[ Parent | on HN ]