I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

Re:I built a progressive web app and published it in three a... by judah on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:27PM (#16850224)

I describe that in the article, but here's the short of it:

iOS: You have to use Cordova plugins. I used RemoteCommand[0] and NowPlaying[1] that lets me write JavaScript that calls into native iOS functionality. Once the Cordova plugins are installed, you write JS to talk to them. Source code for that here[2].

Android: Google has submitted a web standard[3] for this. Integrating with it is simple[4].

Windows: Microsoft automatically injects the Windows API into the JS global namespace. So you write JavaScript that looks like window.Windows.Media.SystemMediaTransportControls.doSomethingHere(). You can see the code for that here[5].

[0]: https://github.com/leon/cordova-plugin-remotecommand

[1]: https://github.com/leon/cordova-plugin-nowplaying

[2]: https://github.com/JudahGabriel/Chavah/blob/master/Chavah.Ne...

[3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Sessi...

[4]: https://github.com/JudahGabriel/Chavah/blob/master/Chavah.Ne...

[5]: https://github.com/JudahGabriel/Chavah/blob/master/Chavah.Ne...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:I built a progressive web app and published it in three a... by osrec on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:31PM (#16850271)

Thank you! That was very informative (sorry for only skimming the article earlier). So Android and Windows don't require a wrapper, but iOS needs Cordova. I'm sure iOS will catch up soon enough...

[ Parent | on HN ]