The End Is Near for Mobile Apps?

Re:The End Is Near for Mobile Apps? by ngrilly on Monday November 05, 2018 @09:29AM (#18382506)

The FastMail mobile app is an example of an "hybrid" app working correctly: it's a native app wrapping the web app using a WebView. The native part takes care of things like notifications. The web part part takes care of the rest and is shared by all platforms. Anyone here using it?

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Re:The End Is Near for Mobile Apps? by toast0 on Monday November 05, 2018 @11:23AM (#18383542)

I use it, and it works fine when I have good connectivity. But I'd really prefer something that was better. Things like tapping a notification about new mail and having to wait to load it are amazingly frustrating (maybe I should turn off notifications). It also only works with good connectivity, I wish there was an option to download message bodies (but not attachments) automatically when available.

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Re:The End Is Near for Mobile Apps? by pgm8705 on Monday November 05, 2018 @09:34AM (#18382546)

Basecamp's mobile app is also a good example of this. Native navigation and notifications but web based content.

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