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Re:Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs by TrianguloY on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @11:56AM (#31424331)
An app on google play can't update itself...except if the app was made by google (YouTube updates itself almost weekly, all server side).

That's why it's called google play, because it's where google plays with all of us.

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Re:Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs by Frotag on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @11:59AM (#31424361)
PWAs are basically websites with a home screen icon. But they can be published in the playstore and update everything but the icon and name.
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Re:Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs by Gigachad on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @08:25PM (#31429241)
The web apis haven’t become quite good enough to match native apps yet though. Things like inter page transitions and gestures aren’t as nice.

The telegram web app is the best example I have seen so far and it looks like a real app but the gestures fail to recognise or complete a lot of the time.

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Re:Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs by SemanticStrengh on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @03:17PM (#31426553)
Hybrid web apps like ionic too.
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