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Re:Hybrid apps: Do not copy. Do get inspired. Avoid reimplem... by resca79 on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @06:46AM (#8008955)
Interesting article. I think that the slowness of webviews has much value than we can image. This guarantees to Apple, Google etc to have a total controll over apps distribution, in other words a Fast WebView is equal to minus money for them.
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Re:Hybrid apps: Do not copy. Do get inspired. Avoid reimplem... by jarek-foksa on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @07:17AM (#8009032)
WKWebView in iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 [1] and Chromium-based WebView in Android 4.4 [2] don't have the performance issues that the old WebView APIs used to have.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_rNie61IQ

[2] https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/migrating.html

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Re:Hybrid apps: Do not copy. Do get inspired. Avoid reimplem... by eloisant on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @07:18AM (#8009035)
Not really, most editors will still want to be in the app store / play store even if they can release a pure web app. From a marketing point of view releasing "an app in appstore/play store" has a lot of value vs releasing "a mobile web app"

Also, iOS and Android since 4.4 have pretty good performances in the webviews.

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Re:Hybrid apps: Do not copy. Do get inspired. Avoid reimplem... by resca79 on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @09:27AM (#8009482)
the point is not the releasing to AppStore but the download from app store. You could release a webApp to appstore but not download it from the store.
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