Re:I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web ap...
by woojoo666 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @07:41AM
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Even if you learn SwiftUI, and get a Kotlin developer for Android, you'll still need a web developer for those who just want a web app. Notion, Spotify, Hulu, etc, all have web apps. Even Gmail still has a web app, albeit an extremely poor one, which goes to show how much work multi-platform support is. The benefit of frameworks like Ionic is to support multiple platforms without having to maintain multiple codebases. So as the gap shrinks between native and web, it starts making more sense to just write a single web app
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Re:I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web ap...
by ColonelPhantom on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:14PM
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Gmail's web app is "extremely poor"? I almost never experience any issues with it, and it's quite streamlined in my experience. It's not worse than the Android app (it's actually nicer, IMO, but that's probably in large part because it's on a big screen). It could be more responsive, but that's about it.
Re:I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web ap...
by woojoo666 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @10:05PM
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You're right, I was thinking of the web app, but then again most mobile web apps are lacking
Re:I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web ap...
by ColonelPhantom on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @02:30PM
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Ah, you mean the mobile web version. I agree, that is an absolute dumpster fire that looks like it hasn't been updated since 2009.
Not sure why though, probably just lack of interest from Google.