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Re:I built a progressive web app and published it in three a... by mamcx on Monday April 16, 2018 @01:49PM (#16851081)
> 2) some mobile platforms (read: Apple)

You mean Google. Android webviews are VERY slow. Tha comnpound with the overall bad android OS (terrible privacy and security, terrible overal performance).

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Re:I built a progressive web app and published it in three a... by floatboth on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:29PM (#16851473)
> Android webviews are VERY slow

Huh?

Since KitKat I think, WebView is updatable (and is on the App Store), plus browsers like Chrome and Firefox can provide their own WebView implementation. Most people with non-ancient phones are probably using Chrome's engine in all WebViews.

And also, old engine doesn't even mean "slow".

Only Apple used to an actual problem here, because for a long long time there was no JS JIT in WebViews.

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Re:I built a progressive web app and published it in three a... by mamcx on Monday April 16, 2018 @03:00PM (#16851739)
That is the theory. Hold a iPhone and and android and run the same web-browser apps and look for yourself.

I have tested several demos by ionic, framework7, etc... is amazing how slow are androids...

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Re:I built a progressive web app and published it in three a... by robocat on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:42PM (#16852574)
My guess is that the difference in speed is mostly due to hardware, not the browser.

Apple hardware benchmarks well beats Android hardware: http://browser.geekbench.com/mobile-benchmarks

Given Safari can optimise for a single GPU target (which is also probably faster), it is likely the speed differences are not due to the browsers per se.

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Re:I built a progressive web app and published it in three a... by mamcx on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:14PM (#16861900)
And that is the reality for a large section of users.
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Re:I built a progressive web app and published it in three a... by pier25 on Monday April 16, 2018 @05:36PM (#16853019)
Android webviews are WAY better. Not only in terms of performance but specially in terms of standard behaviour.

I've been dealing with UIWebView and WKWebView problems for over 3 years now, but Android webviews have given me zero problems.

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