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Re:Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs by joking on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:32PM (#15220891)
not only in the stores, widgets and general integration with the os (like actionable notifications etc.) are one of the things that make native apps a necesity. To appear in the widget screen in ios or make a homescreen widget in android you must have a native app.
Re:Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs by Ajedi32 on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:58PM (#15221179)
Actionable notifications have been a feature of PWAs in Chrome for over a year now: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/01/notificati...
Re:Betting on the Web – Why I Build PWAs by ehsanu1 on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:48PM (#15222174)
That's progress, but that's not exactly a home screen widget. Eg, I can see "20C" and an icon showing it's rainy right on my phone's home screen. I don't think you can do that with the web yet, hopefully people are working on it.